Gephyrin oligomerization controls GlyR mobility and synaptic clustering

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2009, Pages 7639-7648

  Calamai, Martino ^a   Specht, Christian G ^a   Heller, Janosch ^a,b   Alcor, Damien ^a   Machado, Patricia ^a   Vannier, Christian ^a   Triller, Antoine ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEPHYRIN; GLYCINE RECEPTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; SPINAL CORD NERVE CELL;

ANIMALS; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELLS, CULTURED; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; DENDRITES; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; NEURONS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 67449158779     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.5711-08.2009     Document Type: Article

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