Higher-order architecture of cell adhesion mediated by polymorphic synaptic adhesion molecules neurexin and neuroligin

Cell Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 101-110

  Tanaka, Hiroki ^a   Miyazaki, Naoyuki ^a,b   Matoba, Kyoko ^a,b   Nogi, Terukazu ^c   Iwasaki, Kenji ^a,b   Takagi, Junichi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; NEUREXIN; NEUREXIN 1 BETA; NEUROLIGIN 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL JUNCTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; RATS; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TRANSFECTION;

EID: 84864301573     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2012.06.009     Document Type: Article

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