Neurexin mediates the assembly of presynaptic terminals

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 708-716

  Dean, Camin ^a   Scholl, Francisco G ^b   Choih, Jenny ^a   DeMaria, Shannon ^a   Berger, James ^a   Isacoff, Ehud ^a   Scheiffele, Peter ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA NEUREXIN; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NEUREXIN; NEUROLIGIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCYTOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MODEL; MOUSE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

ALANINE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BINDING SITES; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELLS, CULTURED; CEREBELLUM; CHICKENS; CHOLINE O-ACETYLTRANSFERASE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; IMMUNOMAGNETIC SEPARATION; KIDNEY; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PC12 CELLS; PONS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-MYC; R-SNARE PROTEINS; RATS; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RNA REPLICASE; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY, PROTEIN; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; SYNAPTOTAGMINS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 0037743572     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1074     Document Type: Article

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