Abstract

Pyramidal neurons in the cortex require the master kinase LKB1 for early axon specification. Courchet etal. now uncover a later role for LKB1 and its tango with the downstream effector kinase NUAK1 in controlling terminal axonal branching through influencing mitochondrial motility in axons.

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