In a paper just out online in Nature Neuroscience, Scott T. Brady et al. report that the polyQ expanded androgen receptor (the cause of spinal bulbar muscular atrophy) inhibits fast axonal transport by activating the c-jun N-terminal kinase (JNK), which phosphorylates the kinesin heavy chain subunit...
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