α-neurexins couple Ca 2+ channels to synaptic vesicle exocytosis

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6943, 2003, Pages 939-948

  Missler, Markus ^a,b,c   Zhang, Weiqi ^c   Rohlmann, Astrid ^c   Kattenstroth, Gunnar ^d   Hammer, Robert E ^a,b   Gottmann, Kurt ^d   Südhof, Thomas C ^a,b  

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

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CELLS; NEUROLOGY; PROTEINS; SIGNALING;

SYNAPSES;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

ALPHA NEUREXIN; CALCIUM CHANNEL; CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; CELL SURFACE PROTEIN; NEUREXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; CALCIUM; GLYCOPROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUREXIN II; NEUREXIN IIIALPHA; NEUREXOPHILIN; NEUROPEPTIDE;

MICROBIOLOGY; PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL JUNCTION; CELL SURFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCYTOSIS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; ANIMAL; BRAIN STEM; C57BL MOUSE; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL ADHESION; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; GENETICS; IN VITRO STUDY; METABOLISM; MOUSE MUTANT; NEOCORTEX; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; CALCIUM; CALCIUM CHANNELS; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CELLS, CULTURED; EVOKED POTENTIALS; EXOCYTOSIS; GLYCOPROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEOCORTEX; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDES; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 0037774700     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01755     Document Type: Article

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