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ArticleNature protocols2013

Small-scale isolation of synaptic vesicles from mammalian brain.

Saheeb Ahmed, Matthew Holt, Dietmar Riedel, Reinhard Jahn

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Article in Nature protocols, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 89 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Saheeb AhmedDepartment of Neurobiology, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany.
Matthew Holt
Dietmar Riedel
Reinhard Jahn
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry · DEVlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie · BE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synaptic vesicles (SVs) are essential organelles that participate in the release of neurotransmitters from a neuron. Biochemical analysis of purified SVs was instrumental in the identification of proteins involved in exocytotic membrane fusion and neurotransmitter uptake. Although numerous protocols have been published detailing the isolation of SVs from the brain, those that give the highest-purity vesicles often have low yields. Here we describe a protocol for the small-scale isolation of SVs from mouse and rat brain. The procedure relies on standard fractionation techniques, including differential centrifugation, rate-zonal centrifugation and size-exclusion chromatography, but it has been optimized for minimal vesicle loss while maintaining a high degree of purity. The protocol can be completed in less than 1 d and allows the recovery of ∼150 μg of vesicle protein from a single mouse brain, thus allowing vesicle isolation from transgenic mice.

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AnimalsBrainCell FractionationCentrifugationChromatography, GelMiceRatsSynaptic Vesicles

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PMID23619891
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