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ArticleBrain cell biology2008

A heterogeneous "resting" pool of synaptic vesicles that is dynamically interchanged across boutons in mammalian CNS synapses.

Tomas Fernandez-Alfonso, Timothy A Ryan

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Article in Brain cell biology, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 57 papers.

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57citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

57 citing papers in PubMed, 90 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Presynaptic Vesicles Supply Membrane for Axonal Bouton Enlargement during Long Term Potentiation.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  6. Spontaneously Recycling Synaptic Vesicles Constitute Readily Releasable Vesicles in Intact Neuromuscular Synapses.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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  8. Quantitative Analysis of Presynaptic Vesicle Luminal pH in Cultured Neurons.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022
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  16. How Do Synaptic Vesicles "Know" Which Pool They Belong to?The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2017
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  19. Dynamic Partitioning of Synaptic Vesicle Pools by the SNARE-Binding Protein Tomosyn.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2016
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  20. Unique pH dynamics in GABAergic synaptic vesicles illuminates the mechanism and kinetics of GABA loading.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2016
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Tomas Fernandez-AlfonsoDepartment of Biochemistry, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, 1300 York Ave, New York, NY 10021, USA.
Timothy A Ryan
Cornell University · US

Funding

Physiology of Single Synaptic CNS TerminalsR01NS036942 · NINDS · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI Timothy Aidan Ryan · 1998 to 2026
$6.8M
MOTOR SYSTEMS COMPARATIVE STUDYR01NS024992 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PK CAMPUS · PI BRAUTH, STEVEN E · 1987 to 1989
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NINDS NIH HHS NS24992NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS036942
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Using pHluorin-tagged synaptic vesicle proteins we have examined the partitioning of these probes into recycling and nonrecycling pools at hippocampal nerve terminals in cell culture. Our studies show that for three of the major synaptic vesicle components, vGlut-1, VAMP-2, and Synaptotagmin I, approximately 50-60% of the tagged protein appears in a recycling pool that responds readily to sustained action potential stimulation by mobilizing and fusing with the plasma membrane, while the remainder is targeted to a nonrecycling, acidic compartment. The fraction of recycling and nonrecycling (or resting) pools varied significantly across boutons within an individual axon, from 100% resting (silent) to 100% recycling. Single-bouton bleaching studies show that recycling and resting pools are dynamic and exchange between synaptic boutons. The quantitative parameters that can be extracted with the approaches outlined here should help elucidate the potential functional role of the resting vesicle pool.

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Action PotentialsAnimalsAnimals, NewbornCells, CulturedElectric StimulationElectrophysiologyGreen Fluorescent ProteinsHippocampusMembrane FusionMicroscopy, ConfocalMicroscopy, FluorescenceNeuronsPresynaptic TerminalsRatsRats, Sprague-DawleySynapsesGreen Fluorescent ProteinsPHluorinSlc17a7 protein, ratSynaptotagmin IVesicle-Associated Membrane Protein 2Vesicular Glutamate Transport Protein 1

Identifiers

PMID18941900
PMCPMC2924874
OpenAlexW2073357387

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