The CAP-Gly of p150: One Domain, Two Diseases, and a Function at the End

In this issue of Neuron, work from Moughamian and Holzbaur (2012) and Lloyd et al. (2012) reveals a role for p150 in initiation of retrograde transport at synaptic terminals. These studies also suggest how mutations of p150 s CAP-Gly domain lead to both Perry syndrome and HMN7B disease.