Publication Date:
2001-02-24
Description:
How do AMPA receptors that are made in the cytoplasm of excitatory neurons travel to and become localized in the distant postsynaptic membranes of dendrites? Nakagawa and Sheng, in a Perspective, suggest that the answer may lie in the stargazin protein that has now been found to interact with AMPA receptors, guiding them to the postsynaptic membrane.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Nakagawa, T -- Sheng, M -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Dec 22;290(5500):2270-1.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11188726" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Calcium Channels/chemistry/genetics/*metabolism
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Cell Membrane/metabolism
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Cerebellum/cytology/*metabolism
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Dendrites/metabolism
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Mice
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Mice, Mutant Strains
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Models, Biological
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Nerve Tissue Proteins/metabolism
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Neurons/*metabolism
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Protein Binding
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Protein Transport
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Receptors, AMPA/*metabolism
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Synapses/metabolism
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Synaptic Membranes/*metabolism
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Synaptic Transmission
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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