Assembly of presynaptic active zones from cytoplasmic transport packets

By S. Ahmari, J. Buchanan, Stephen J. Smith. Nature Neuroscience, 2000

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Citations in the corpus

• Assembling the Presynaptic Active Zone: A Characterization of an Active Zone Precursor Vesicle (2001, background): “…et as an electron-dense meshwork of cytoskeletal fila- al showing that clusters of vesicles containing synaptic ments intimately associated with the plasma membrane, proteins are found at sites of newly forming synapses embedded with clusters of SVs, and juxtaposed to the (Ahmari et al., 2000).”
• Role of β-Catenin in Synaptic Vesicle Localization and Presynaptic Assembly (2003, positive): “Synaptic vesicle marker proteins have been widely used as GFP fusion proteins to mark presynaptic sites in vertebrates (Ahmari et al., 2000; Saegusa et al., 2002; Sankaranarayanan and Ryan, 2001; Wang et al., 2002).”
• Compartmentalizing the neuronal plasma membrane from axon initial segments to synapses. (2009, background): “1–1 mm/s) within axons of young neurons before synapses form (Ahmari et al., 2000; Dai and Peng, 1996; Kaether et al., 2000; Kraszewski et al., 1995; Nakata et al., 1998; Sabo et al., 2006).”
• The synapsins: key actors of synapse function and plasticity. (2010, background): “More recently, syn I has been shown to be part of mobile packets that are anterogradely transported along the axon, and contain several pre-synaptic components (Ahmari et al., 2000).”
• Cell type-specific structural plasticity of axonal branches and boutons in the adult neocortex. (2006, neutral): “(2) To exclude scoring of transport packets and moving organelles ( Ahmari et al., 2000; De Paola et al., 2003), EPBs included in the analysis had to be present on the same site for at least two consecutive time points.”
• Negative Regulation of Active Zone Assembly by a Newly Identified SR Protein Kinase (2009, background): “One model for AZ formation that could be extended to ribbon/T-bar assembly is based upon the existence of transport vesicles that contain AZ components, including calcium channels as well as the Piccolo and Bassoon proteins. It has been suggested that these transport vesicles fuse at sites of nascen”
• Genesis of dendritic spines: insights from ultrastructural and imaging studies (2004, background): “Imaging of the interactions between filopodia and axonal terminals is now possibl”
• Structural Components of Synaptic Plasticity and Memory Consolidation. (2015, background): “Live imaging and retrospective EM from hippocampal cultures has revealed that small densecore vesicles (DCVs), which carry active zone proteins, are transported to and inserted at nascent synapses, which soon thereafter become functional (Buchanan et al. 1989; Ahmari et al. 2000; Zhai et al. 2001; S”