Munc18-1-regulated stage-wise SNARE assembly underlying synaptic exocytosis

eLife

Volumn 4, Issue DECEMBER2015, 2015, Pages

  Ma, Lu ^a   Rebane, Aleksander A ^a,b,c   Yang, Guangcan ^a,d   Xi, Zhiqun ^a   Kang, Yuhao ^a   Gao, Ying ^a   Zhang, Yongli ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Yale University   (United States)

^d WENZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUNC18 PROTEIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SNARE PROTEIN; SYNTAXIN;

ARTICLE; ENZYME STABILITY; EXOCYTOSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEMBRANE FUSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; SYNAPSE; METABOLISM; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION;

EXOCYTOSIS; MUNC18 PROTEINS; OPTICAL TWEEZERS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; SNARE PROTEINS;

EID: 84956956392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2050084X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.09580.001     Document Type: Article

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