Defects in synaptic vesicle docking in unc-18 mutants

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1023-1030

  Weimer, Robby M ^a,d   Richmond, Janet E ^b   Davis, Warren S ^a   Hadwiger, Gayla ^c   Nonet, Michael L ^c   Jorgensen, Erik M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN SEC1; PROTEIN UNC 18; SYNTAXIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EXOCYTOSIS; MEMBRANE BINDING; MEMBRANE FUSION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; EXOCYTOSIS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; MODELS, ANIMAL; MOTOR NEURONS; MUTATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; QA-SNARE PROTEINS; R-SNARE PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, GABA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 0141542671     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1118     Document Type: Article

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