The yin and yang of synaptic active zone assembly

Science Signaling

Volumn 2, Issue 70, 2009, Pages

  Sigrist, Stephan J ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ANAPHASE PROMOTING COMPLEX; MATRIX PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN REGULATOR OF SYNAPTOGENESIS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CARRIER PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; RSY 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; RSY-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SYD 1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SYD 2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SYD-1 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SYD-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; UNC 10 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; UNC-10 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHINESE MEDICINE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MISSENSE MUTATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SHORT SURVEY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTOGENESIS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MOTONEURON; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PHYSIOLOGY; SYNAPTOSOME;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CARRIER PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROGENESIS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 70349333700     PISSN: 19450877     EISSN: 19379145     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/scisignal.270pe32     Document Type: Short Survey

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28. S.J.S is supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Exc 257).