Inhibition of transmitter release correlates with the proteolytic activity of tetanus toxin and botulinus toxin A in individual cultured synapses of Hirudo medicinalis

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1898-1910

  Bruns, Dieter ^a   Engers, Silke ^a   Yang, Clement ^a   Ossig, Rainer ^a   Jeromin, Andreas ^a   Jahn, Reinhard ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

botulinus toxin A; Hirudo medicinalis; single cell immunoblotting; SNAP 25; SNARE; synaptobrevin; tetanus toxin; transmitter release; VAMP

Indexed keywords

BOTULINUM TOXIN A; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SYNAPTOBREVIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; EXOCYTOSIS; LEECH; MOLECULAR CLONING; NEUROTOXICITY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; TOXICITY TESTING;

EID: 0031016979     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-06-01898.1997     Document Type: Article

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