A new study published in Current Biology identifies the biological triggers that promote quicker nerve regeneration. From their previous studies, the researchers knew that damaged nerves regrow more quickly when “stress granules” in the site of the nerve injury are broken apart. Now they know what causes those stress granules to disassemble through a process called protein phosphorylation.
“The important thing is that we identified the protein that drives that process and showed how that’s regulated,” Jeff Twiss, a UofSC biology professor and co-author on the paper, said.
“It actually opens something new,” Pabitra Sahoo, the paper’s lead author, said...
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