EMBO J (2013) 32:11, 954–969 doi:10.1038/emboj.2013.27; published online February122013 []Neurotransmission in the brain critically depends on the maintenance of synapses as well as on regulated synaptic protein turnover. How synaptic proteostasis is held in check has remained largely enigmatic. A new paper in The EMBO Journal reports that the active zone proteins Piccolo and Bassoon put a brake on presynaptic protein turnover by restraining the activity of the E3 ubiquitin ligase Siah1, thereby preventing neurodegeneration.
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