Linker mutations reveal the complexity of synaptotagmin 1 action during synaptic transmission

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 670-677

  Liu, Huisheng ^a,c   Bai, Hua ^a   Xue, Renhao ^a   Takahashi, Hirohide ^b   Edwardson, J Michael ^b   Chapman, Edwin R ^a  

^a HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM ION; SYNAPTOTAGMIN I;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASMIC DOMAIN A; CYTOPLASMIC DOMAIN B; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXOCYTOSIS; LIPID BILAYER; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOUSE; MUTATION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; STIMULUS SECRETION COUPLING; SYNAPSE VESICLE; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELLS, CULTURED; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; EXOCYTOSIS; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; LIPOSOMES; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; NEURONS; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; QA-SNARE PROTEINS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOTAGMIN I;

EID: 84899621429     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: 15461726     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn.3681     Document Type: Article

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