ArticleNeuron2004
A highly Ca2+-sensitive pool of vesicles contributes to linearity at the rod photoreceptor ribbon synapse.
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- The architecture of invaginating rod synapses slows glutamate diffusion and shapes synaptic responses.The Journal of general physiology · 2025Article
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- Presynaptic Proteins and Their Roles in Visual Processing by the Retina.Annual review of vision science · 2024Review
- Mechanisms of simultaneous linear and nonlinear computations at the mammalian cone photoreceptor synapse.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Resolving the molecular architecture of the photoreceptor active zone with 3D-MINFLUX.Science advances · 2022Article
- Eliminating Synaptic Ribbons from Rods and Cones Halves the Releasable Vesicle Pool and Slows Down Replenishment.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Article
- Enhancing the dark side: asymmetric gain of cone photoreceptors underpins their discrimination of visual scenes based on skewness.The Journal of physiology · 2022Article
- Mechanisms controlling the trafficking, localization, and abundance of presynaptic CaFrontiers in molecular neuroscience · 2022Review
- Synaptic vesicle release during ribbon synapse formation of cone photoreceptors.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2022Article
- Adhesion GPCR Latrophilin 3 regulates synaptic function of cone photoreceptors in a trans-synaptic manner.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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- Early Changes in Exo- and Endocytosis in the EAE Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis Correlate with Decreased Synaptic Ribbon Size and Reduced Ribbon-Associated Vesicle Pools in Rod Photoreceptor Synapses.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
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- Transmission at rod and cone ribbon synapses in the retina.Pflugers Archiv : European journal of physiology · 2021Review
- Cell Types and Synapses Expressing the SNARE Complex Regulating Proteins Complexin 1 and Complexin 2 in Mammalian Retina.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Article
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- Resting and stimulated mouse rod photoreceptors show distinct patterns of vesicle release at ribbon synapses.The Journal of general physiology · 2020Article
- Simultaneous Release of Multiple Vesicles from Rods Involves Synaptic Ribbons and Syntaxin 3B.Biophysical journal · 2020Article
- CaeLife · 2019Article
- Nanomachinery Organizing Release at Neuronal and Ribbon Synapses.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Review
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Abstract
Studies of the properties of synaptic transmission have been carried out at only a few synapses. We analyzed exocytosis from rod photoreceptors with a combination of physiological and ultrastructural techniques. As at other ribbon synapses, we found that rods exhibited rapid kinetics of release, and the number of vesicles in the releasable pool is comparable to the number of vesicles tethered at ribbon-style active zones. However, unlike other previously studied neurons, we identified a highly Ca(2+)-sensitive pool of releasable vesicles with a relatively shallow relationship between the rate of exocytosis and [Ca(2+)](i) that is nearly linear over a presumed physiological range of intraterminal [Ca(2+)]. The low-order [Ca(2+)] dependence of release promotes a linear relationship between Ca(2+) entry and exocytosis that permits rods to relay information about small changes in illumination with high fidelity at the first synapse in vision.
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