A perisynaptic ménage à trois between Dlg, DLin-7, and metro controls proper organization of Drosophila synaptic junctions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 5811-5824

  Bachmann, André ^a   Kobler, Oliver ^b   Kittel, Robert J ^c,d   Wichmann, Carolin ^e,f   Sierralta, Jimena ^g   Sigrist, Stephan J ^f   Gundelfinger, Eckart D ^b   Knust, Elisabeth ^a,h   Thomas, Ulrich ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR NEUROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^d Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft   (Germany)

^e EUROPEAN NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^f FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTOR PROTEIN; ADAPTOR PROTEIN DLIN 7; DISCS LARGE MEMBRANE ASSOCIATED GUANYLATE CYCLASE KINASE; DISCS LARGE PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; MEMBRANE ASSOCIATED GUANYLATE CYCLASE KINASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; METRO PROTEIN; PROTEIN LIN 2; PROTEIN P55; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL EXPANSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; DROSOPHILA; LARVA; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; PLEIOTROPY; POSTSYNAPTIC INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; GUANYLATE KINASE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; MUTATION; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTRIN; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77951657239     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0778-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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