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From: Topological characterization of neuronal arbor morphology via sequence representation: I - motif analysis

Figure 6

Distinguishing trimers of axons and dendrites. Axons and dendrites share some motifs consistent with dimers and their interpretations, but they differ on a small related set of k-mers. A rat hippocampal CA3 interneuron dendrite (left; NMO_00837 from [69]) displays a relative abundance of ACC trimers (asterisks) but only one ACT occurrence (dark blue). A rat cortical basket cell axon (right; NMO_07461 from [70]) has 9 occurrences of ACT (magenta) but only 2 of ACC (asterisks). Graph Inset: The ACT k-mer is a motif for axons (magenta bars) and a slight anti-motif for dendrites (blue ovals), while ACC is an anti-motif for axons and neither motif nor anti-motif for dendrites.

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