Open syntaxin docks synaptic vesicles.

Synaptic vesicles dock to the plasma membrane at synapses to facilitate rapid exocytosis. Docking was originally proposed to require the soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion attachment protein receptor (SNARE) proteins; however, perturbation studies suggested that docking was independent of the...

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Main Authors: Marc Hammarlund, Mark T Palfreyman, Shigeki Watanabe, Shawn Olsen, Erik M Jorgensen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-08-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0050198