Regulation of the UNC-18-Caenorhabditis elegans syntaxin complex by UNC- 13

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 4772-4777

  Sassa, Toshihiro ^a   Harada, Shin Ichi ^b   Ogawa, Hisamitu ^c   Rand, James B ^d   Maruyama, Ichiro N ^e   Hosono, Ryuji ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

^b KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c FUJITA HEALTH UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^e SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ce syntaxin; Exocytosis; SNARE complex; Synaptic vesicle; UNC 13; UNC 18

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN UNC 13; PROTEIN UNC 18; SYNTAXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING COMPETITION; BINDING KINETICS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPISTASIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0033564050     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-12-04772.1999     Document Type: Article

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