Piccolo and bassoon maintain synaptic vesicle clustering without directly participating in vesicle exocytosis

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

Volumn 107, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 6504-6509

  Mukherjee, Konark ^a,b,e   Yang, Xiaofei ^a,b   Gerber, Stefan H ^b,f   Kwon, Hyung Bae ^c,g   Ho, Angela ^b   Castillo, Pablo E ^c   Liu, Xinran ^b   Südhof, Thomas C ^a,b,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^g HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Active zone; Neurotransmitter release; Synapse; Synaptogenesis; Vesicle docking

Indexed keywords

BASSOON PROTEIN; CALCIUM; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PICCOLO PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; BRAIN SLICE; CALCIUM BINDING; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXOCYTOSIS; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; KNOCKOUT GENE; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NERVE ENDING; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL MORTALITY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SYNAPSE; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; EXOCYTOSIS; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTIC VESICLES;

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EID: 77950869684     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002307107     Document Type: Article

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