Synaptic scaffolding protein SYD-2 clusters and activates kinesin-3 UNC-104 in C. elegans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 46, 2009, Pages 19605-19610

  Wagner, Oliver I ^a,b   Esposito, Alessandro ^c   Köhler, Barbara ^a   Chen, Chih Wei ^b   Shen, Che Piao ^b   Wu, Gong Her ^b   Butkevich, Eugenia ^a   Mandalapu, Sailaja ^a   Wenzel, Dirk ^d   Wouters, Fred S ^c   Klopfenstein, Dieter R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Active zone protein; Axonal transport; Dynein; Motor regulation; Synaptic vesicle transport

Indexed keywords

DYNEIN ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; KINESIN 3; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KIF1A; PROTEIN SYD 2; PROTEIN UNC 104; SYNAPTOBREVIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; PHOSPHOPROTEIN; SYD 2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; SYD-2 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; UNC 104 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS; UNC-104 PROTEIN, C ELEGANS;

ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SYNAPSE; YEAST; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS;

ANIMALS; AXONS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN INTERACTION DOMAINS AND MOTIFS; PROTEIN INTERACTION MAPPING; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

EID: 73349103185     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0902949106     Document Type: Article

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