Exocytotic mechanism studied by truncated and zero layer mutants of the C-terminus of SNAP-25

EMBO Journal

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1279-1289

  Shunhui, Wei ^a   Xu, Tao ^a,b   Ashery, Uri ^a   Kollewe, Astrid ^c   Matti, Ulf ^c   Antonin, Wolfram ^a   Rettig, Jens ^a   Neher, Erwin ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Capacitance measurements; Exocytosis; Secretion; SNAP 25; SNARE complex

Indexed keywords

MUTANT PROTEIN; SNARE PROTEIN; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL SECRETION; CHROMAFFIN CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCYTOSIS; KINETICS; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMLIKI FOREST ALPHAVIRUS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CATECHOLAMINES; CATTLE; CELLS, CULTURED; CHROMAFFIN CELLS; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EXOCYTOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; KINETICS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHOTOLYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS; SEQUENCE DELETION; SNARE PROTEINS; SYNAPTOSOMAL-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

ALPHAVIRUS; ANIMALIA; SEMLIKI FOREST VIRUS;

EID: 0342751280     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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