Expanding views of presynaptic terminals: New findings from Caenorhabditis elegans

Current Opinion in Neurobiology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 431-437

  Yan, Dong ^a   Noma, Kentaro ^a   Jin, Yishi ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CHANNEL LOCALIZATION FACTOR 1; CELL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PROTEIN AZ; PROTEIN UNC 2; PROTEIN UNC 36; SYNAPTIC DEFECTIVE ENHANCER 1 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACTIVE ZONE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; GENOMICS; MICROSCOPY; MICROTUBULE; MOLECULAR DOCKING; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NERVE ENDING; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRESYNAPTIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOGENESIS; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84863457270     PISSN: 09594388     EISSN: 18736882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conb.2011.10.002     Document Type: Review

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