Molecular in situ topology of Aczonin/Piccolo and associated proteins at the mammalian neurotransmitter release site

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

Volumn 108, Issue 31, 2011, Pages

  Limbach, Christoph ^a   Laue, Michael M ^b,c   Wang, Xiaolu ^b,d   Hu, Bin ^b   Thiede, Nadine ^a   Hultqvist, Greta ^a   Kilimann, Manfred W ^a,b  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^d Evotec NeuroSciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Protein structure; Scaffolding protein

Indexed keywords

ACZONIN; BASSOON PROTEIN; MUNC13 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ANIMAL CELL; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; IMMUNODETECTION; IMMUNOGOLD ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAT;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, SIGNAL TRANSDUCING; ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; IMMUNOBLOTTING; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROPEPTIDES; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

MAMMALIA;

EID: 79961219575     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1101707108     Document Type: Article

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