Deconstructing complexin function in activating and clamping Ca 2+-triggered exocytosis by comparing knockout and knockdown phenotypes

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

Volumn 110, Issue 51, 2013, Pages 20777-20782

  Yang, Xiaofei ^a,b   Cao, Peng ^a,c   Südhof, Thomas C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SOUTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Membrane fusion; Neurotransmitter release; SNARE protein; Synaptic transmission; Synaptotagmin

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; COMPLEXIN; COMPLEXIN 1; COMPLEXIN 3; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL CULTURE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CELL MEMBRANE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCYTOSIS; GENE SILENCING; KNOCKOUT GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; OLFACTORY NERVE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION;

EID: 84890816398     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1321367110     Document Type: Article

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