Postsynaptic actin regulates active zone spacing and glutamate receptor apposition at the Drosophila neuromuscular junction

Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience

Volumn 61, Issue , 2014, Pages 241-254

  Blunk, Aline D ^a   Akbergenova, Yulia ^a   Cho, Richard W ^a   Lee, Jihye ^a,b   Walldorf, Uwe ^c   Xu, Ke ^d   Zhong, Guisheng ^d   Zhuang, Xiaowei ^d,e   Littleton, J Troy ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Pusan National University   (South Korea)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Actin; Cytoskeleton; Neurexin; NMJ; Spectrin; Synapse

Indexed keywords

ACTIN; ADDUCIN; CALPONIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; NEUREXIN; NEUROLIGIN; POSTSYNAPTIC RECEPTOR; SPECTRIN; ACTIN BINDING PROTEIN; CALCIUM BINDING PROTEIN; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR III, DROSOPHILA; GLUTAMIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; NERVE PROTEIN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEINS;

ACTIN FILAMENT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MUTAGENESIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROSOPHILA; GENE INTERACTION; MORPHOLOGY; MUSCLE; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POINT MUTATION; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SYNAPSE; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; AGE; ANIMAL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; LARVA; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACTINS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CALCIUM-BINDING PROTEINS; DROSOPHILA; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GLUTAMIC ACID; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; LARVA; MICROFILAMENT PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEUROMUSCULAR JUNCTION; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS;

EID: 84905444178     PISSN: 10447431     EISSN: 10959327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mcn.2014.07.005     Document Type: Article

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