The small GTP-binding protein Rab3A regulates a late step in synaptic vesicle fusion

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6635, 1997, Pages 810-814

  Geppert, Martin ^a   Goda, Yukiko ^b   Stevens, Charles F ^b   Südhof, Thomas C ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; MEMBRANE FUSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

2-AMINO-5-PHOSPHONOVALERATE; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CELLS, CULTURED; DIZOCILPINE MALEATE; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID ANTAGONISTS; EXOCYTOSIS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RAB3 GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 0030980279     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/42954     Document Type: Article

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