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Ultrafast endocytosis at Caenorhabditis elegans neuromuscular junctions.

Shigeki Watanabe, Qiang Liu, M Wayne Davis, Gunther Hollopeter, Nikita Thomas, Nels B Jorgensen, Erik M Jorgensen

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Article in eLife, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 125 papers.

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125 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Shigeki WatanabeDepartment of Biology , Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Utah , Salt Lake City , United States.
Qiang Liu
M Wayne Davis
Gunther Hollopeter
Nikita Thomas
Nels B Jorgensen
Erik M Jorgensen

Funding

SYNAPTIC FUNCTION IN THE NEMATODE C. ELEGANSR01NS034307 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI JORGENSEN, ERIK M · 1995 to 2024
$5.8M
SYNAPTIC FUNCTION IN THE NEMATODE C. ELEGANSR37NS034307 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI JORGENSEN, ERIK M · 1999 to 2009
$3.3M
NINDS NIH HHS NS034307NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS034307NINDS NIH HHS R37 NS034307
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Synaptic vesicles can be released at extremely high rates, which places an extraordinary demand on the recycling machinery. Previous ultrastructural studies of vesicle recycling were conducted in dissected preparations using an intense stimulation to maximize the probability of release. Here, a single light stimulus was applied to motor neurons in intact Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes expressing channelrhodopsin, and the animals rapidly frozen. We found that docked vesicles fuse along a broad active zone in response to a single stimulus, and are replenished with a time constant of about 2 s. Endocytosis occurs within 50 ms adjacent to the dense projection and after 1 s adjacent to adherens junctions. These studies suggest that synaptic vesicle endocytosis may occur on a millisecond time scale following a single physiological stimulus in the intact nervous system and is unlikely to conform to current models of endocytosis. DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.00723.001.

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EndocytosisAnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansNeuromuscular Junctionactive zoneC. eleganshigh-pressure freezingoptogeneticssynaptic vesicle endocytosissynaptic vesicle exocytosistime-resolved electron microscopy

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PMID24015355
PMCPMC3762212

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