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ArticleeLife2017

Mechanistic insights into neurotransmitter release and presynaptic plasticity from the crystal structure of Munc13-1 C

Junjie Xu, Marcial Camacho, Yibin Xu, Victoria Esser, Xiaoxia Liu, Thorsten Trimbuch, Yun-Zu Pan, Cong Ma, Diana R Tomchick, Christian Rosenmund and 1 more

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Article in eLife, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 87 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

87 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Congenital myasthenic syndromes.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2019
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  2. Munc13 serves as a molecular filter for SNARE sorting and assembly in active zone condensates.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  3. Single nucleotide variants inBiochemistry and biophysics reports · 2026
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  4. Synaptic transmission: Munc13 assembles onto PI(4,5)PProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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  5. Munc13-1 couples DAG and CaScience advances · 2026
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  11. A specific negatively charged sequence confers intramolecular regulation on Munc13-1 function in synaptic exocytosis.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  15. Molecular mechanism underlying SNARE-mediated membrane fusion enlightened by all-atom molecular dynamics simulations.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  18. Diacylglycerol-dependent hexamers of the SNARE-assembling chaperone Munc13-1 cooperatively bind vesicles.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  19. Roles for diacylglycerol in synaptic vesicle priming and release revealed by complete reconstitution of core protein machinery.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  20. The machinery of vesicle fusion.Current opinion in cell biology · 2023
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27 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors.

Junjie XuDepartment of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States.
Marcial CamachoDepartment of Neurophysiology, NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Yibin XuDepartment of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States.
Victoria EsserDepartment of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States.
Xiaoxia LiuDepartment of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States.
Thorsten TrimbuchDepartment of Neurophysiology, NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Yun-Zu PanDepartment of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States.
Cong MaKey Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7814-0500
Diana R TomchickDepartment of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-7529-4643
Christian RosenmundDepartment of Neurophysiology, NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-3905-2444
Josep RizoDepartment of Biophysics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-1773-8311

Funding

Mechanisms of neurotransmitter release and its regulationR35NS097333 · NINDS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI RIZOREY, JOSE · 2017 to 2024
$7.0M
STRUCTURE/FUNCTION OF SYNTAXIN 1R01NS037200 · NINDS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI RIZOREY, JOSE · 1998 to 2016
$6.5M
SYNAPTOTAGMIN AND C2 DOMAINS--STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONR01NS040944 · NINDS · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI RIZOREY, JOSE · 2001 to 2016
$6.4M
NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS037200NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS040944NINDS NIH HHS R35 NS097333
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Munc13-1 acts as a master regulator of neurotransmitter release, mediating docking-priming of synaptic vesicles and diverse presynaptic plasticity processes. It is unclear how the functions of the multiple domains of Munc13-1 are coordinated. The crystal structure of a Munc13-1 fragment including its C

Indexed as

AnimalsCells, CulturedCrystallography, X-RayMiceModels, MolecularNerve Tissue ProteinsNeuronsNeurotransmitter AgentsProtein ConformationRatsNerve Tissue ProteinsNeurotransmitter AgentsUnc13a protein, mousebiophysicscalcium bindingmouseMunc13neuroscienceneurotransmitter releasepresynaptic plasticitystructural biologysynaptic vesicle fusion

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PMID28177287
PMCPMC5344669

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