Drosophila UNC-13 is essential for synaptic transmission

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 965-971

  Aravamudan, Bharathi ^a   Fergestad, Tim ^a   Davis, Warren S ^a   Rodesch, Chris K ^a   Broadie, Kendal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; SYNAPTOBREVIN; SYNTAXIN;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; EMBRYO; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; EXOCYTOSIS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033352861     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/14764     Document Type: Article

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