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ArticleFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2018

Visualization of Synchronous or Asynchronous Release of Single Synaptic Vesicle in Active-Zone-Like Membrane Formed on Neuroligin-Coated Glass Surface.

Junichiro Funahashi, Hiromitsu Tanaka, Tomoo Hirano

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Article in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Deciphering the Nanoscale Architecture of Presynaptic Actin Using a Micropatterned Presynapse-on-Glass Model.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  6. The Decade of Super-Resolution Microscopy of the Presynapse.Frontiers in synaptic neuroscience · 2020
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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Junichiro FunahashiDepartment of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Hiromitsu TanakaDepartment of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Tomoo HiranoDepartment of Biophysics, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
Kyoto University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fast repetitive synaptic transmission depends on efficient exocytosis and retrieval of synaptic vesicles around a presynaptic active zone. However, the functional organization of an active zone and regulatory mechanisms of exocytosis, endocytosis and reconstruction of release-competent synaptic vesicles have not been fully elucidated. By developing a novel visualization method, we attempted to identify the location of exocytosis of a single synaptic vesicle within an active zone and examined movement of synaptic vesicle protein synaptophysin (Syp) after exocytosis. Using cultured hippocampal neurons, we induced formation of active-zone-like membranes (AZLMs) directly adjacent and parallel to a glass surface coated with neuroligin, and imaged Syp fused to super-ecliptic pHluorin (Syp-SEP) after its translocation to the plasma membrane from a synaptic vesicle using total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy (TIRFM). An AZLM showed characteristic molecular and functional properties of a presynaptic active zone. It contained active zone proteins, cytomatrix at the active zone-associated structural protein (CAST), Bassoon, Piccolo, Munc13 and RIM, and showed an increase in intracellular Ca

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active zoneasynchronous releaseexocytosisneuroliginsynaptic vesiclesynaptophysintotal internal reflection fluorescence microscopy

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