C. elegans Punctin specifies cholinergic versus GABAergic identity of postsynaptic domains

Nature

Volumn 511, Issue 7510, 2014, Pages 466-470

  Pinan Lucarré, Bérangère ^a,b   Tu, Haijun ^a,b   Pierron, Marie ^a,b   Cruceyra, Pablo Ibáñez ^a   Zhan, Hong ^a,b   Stigloher, Christian ^a,d   Richmond, Janet E ^c   Bessereau, Jean Louis ^a,b  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE ET CELLULAIRE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; ACETYLCHOLINE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEIN; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; PUNCTIN 1; PUNCTIN 2; SCLEROPROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CHOLINERGIC SYNAPSE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GENE DELETION; IN VIVO STUDY; MOTONEURON; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SENSORY NERVE CELL; WILD TYPE;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ADAM PROTEINS; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; GABAERGIC NEURONS; MOTOR NEURONS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; POST-SYNAPTIC DENSITY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RECEPTORS, CHOLINERGIC; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 84904858014     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature13313     Document Type: Article

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