Neuroligin-4 is localized to glycinergic postsynapses and regulates inhibition in the retina

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

Volumn 108, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3053-3058

  Hoon, Mrinalini ^a,b,g   Soykan, Tolga ^a   Falkenburger, Björn ^b,c,g   Hammer, Matthieu ^a,b   Patrizi, Annarita ^d   Schmidt, Karl Friedrich ^e   Sassoè Pognetto, Marco ^d   Löwel, Siegrid ^c,e   Moser, Tobias ^b,c   Taschenberger, Holger ^f   Brose, Nils ^a,b   Varoqueaux, Frédérique ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Germany)

^b Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^d National Institute of Neuroscience Italy   (Italy)

^e FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOPHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Inhibitory transmission; Synaptogenesis; Visual processing

Indexed keywords

GEPHYRIN; GLYCINE RECEPTOR; NEUROLIGIN; NEUROLIGIN 4; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; COMPLEX FORMATION; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; INFERIOR COLLICULUS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RETINA GANGLION CELL; SPINAL CORD; SUPERIOR COLLICULUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THALAMUS;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CERCOPITHECUS AETHIOPS; COS CELLS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ELECTRORETINOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEURAL INHIBITION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, GLYCINE; RETINA; SYNAPSES; TWO-HYBRID SYSTEM TECHNIQUES;

EID: 79952583194     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1006946108     Document Type: Article

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