Ultrahigh-resolution imaging reveals formation of neuronal SNARE/Munc18 complexes in situ

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

Volumn 110, Issue 30, 2013, Pages E2812-E2820

  Pertsinidis, Alexandros ^a,b   Mukherjee, Konark ^c,d   Sharma, Manu ^c   Pang, Zhiping P ^c   Park, Sang Ryul ^b   Zhang, Yunxiang ^b   Brunger, Axel T ^c   Südhof, Thomas C ^c   Chu, Steven ^c  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d VIRGINIA TECH CARILION SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Active stabilization; Colocalization; Exocytosis; Neurotransmission; Single molecule

Indexed keywords

MUNC18 PROTEIN; SNARE PROTEIN; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNTAXIN 1;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; FLUORESCENCE NANOSCOPY TECHNIQUE; PHOTON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRESYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

EID: 84880650864     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1310654110     Document Type: Article

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