Evolutionary conservation of complexins: From choanoflagellates to mice

EMBO Reports

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1308-1317

  Yang, Xiaofei ^a,b   Pei, Jimin ^c   Kaeser Woo, Yea Jin ^a,d   Bacaj, Taulant ^a   Grishin, Nick V ^c   Südhof, Thomas C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SOUTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOR NATIONALITIES   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

evolution; membrane fusion; SNARE proteins; synapse; synaptotagmin

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; COMPLEXIN 1; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NERVE PROTEIN; PROTEIN BINDING; SNARE PROTEIN; SYNAPTOTAGMIN; VESICULAR TRANSPORT ADAPTOR PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CHOANOFLAGELLATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXOCYTOSIS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; NEMATOSTELLA VECTENSIS; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; CHEMISTRY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

ADAPTOR PROTEINS, VESICULAR TRANSPORT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CALCIUM; CHOANOFLAGELLATA; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EXOCYTOSIS; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SNARE PROTEINS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; SYNAPTOTAGMINS;

EID: 84942787372     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15252/embr.201540305     Document Type: Article

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