Dimerization of postsynaptic neuroligin drives synaptic assembly via transsynaptic clustering of neurexin

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

Volumn 109, Issue 47, 2012, Pages 19432-19437

  Shipman, Seth L ^a   Nicoll, Roger A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Electrophysiology; Hippocampus; Synaptic adhesion molecule

Indexed keywords

NEUREXIN; NEUROLIGIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIMERIZATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; MUTANT PROTEINS; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84869779549     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1217633109     Document Type: Article

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