Commentary: Neurotransmitter release: A docking role for UNC-13 proteins (Commentary on Siksou et al.)

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 47-48

  Gundelfinger, Eckart D ^a   Fejtová, Anna ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; DOCKING PROTEIN; PROTEIN UNC 13; REGULATOR PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLTAGE GATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; AGENTS INTERACTING WITH TRANSMITTER, HORMONE OR DRUG RECEPTORS; NERVE PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE; UNC13A PROTEIN, MOUSE; UNC13B PROTEIN, MOUSE;

CELL MEMBRANE DEPOLARIZATION; HUMAN; MEMBRANE FUSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; ANIMAL; CELL MEMBRANE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; FREEZING; GENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOSOME; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPE TOMOGRAPHY; FREEZING; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PRESSURE; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 67649850774     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2009.06832.x     Document Type: Note

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