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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

Munc13-1 MUN domain and Munc18-1 cooperatively chaperone SNARE assembly through a tetrameric complex.

Tong Shu, Huaizhou Jin, James E Rothman, Yongli Zhang

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 78 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Munc18 reprograms the intrinsic neuronal SNARE complex assembly pathway.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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  4. 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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  8. Fusion Pores as Regulators of Quantal Size and Cellular Physiology.BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2025
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  13. 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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  18. Synapse-Specific Trapping of SNARE Machinery Proteins in the AnesthetizedThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Tong ShuDepartment of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520.
Huaizhou JinDepartment of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520.
James E RothmanDepartment of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520; james.rothman@yale.edu yongli.zhang@yale.edu.
Yongli ZhangDepartment of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520; james.rothman@yale.edu yongli.zhang@yale.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-7079-7973
Yale University · US

Funding

Regulation of Membrane Fusion in ExocytosisR01DK027044 · NIDDK · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI KRISHNAKUMAR, SHYAM S · 1986 to 2021
$8.2M
MECHANISMS OF INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE FUSIONR37DK027044 · NIDDK · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI ROTHMAN, JAMES · 1992 to 2012
$5.3M
Single-molecule studies of SNARE assembly and lipid transferR35GM131714 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Yongli Zhang · 2019 to 2026
$5.0M
Single-molecule manipulation of SNAREsR01GM093341 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI ZHANG, YONGLI · 2010 to 2018
$3.1M
Common role of Sec1p/Munc18 proteins in SNARE assembly and membrane fusionR01GM120193 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI ZHANG, YONGLI · 2017 to 2018
$709k
NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK027044NIDDK NIH HHS R37 DK027044NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM093341NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM120193NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM131714
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Munc13-1 is a large multifunctional protein essential for synaptic vesicle fusion and neurotransmitter release. Its dysfunction has been linked to many neurological disorders. Evidence suggests that the MUN domain of Munc13-1 collaborates with Munc18-1 to initiate SNARE assembly, thereby priming vesicles for fast calcium-triggered vesicle fusion. The underlying molecular mechanism, however, is poorly understood. Recently, it was found that Munc18-1 catalyzes neuronal SNARE assembly through an obligate template complex intermediate containing Munc18-1 and 2 SNARE proteins-syntaxin 1 and VAMP2. Here, using single-molecule force spectroscopy, we discovered that the MUN domain of Munc13-1 stabilizes the template complex by ∼2.1 k

Indexed as

ExocytosisKineticsMembrane FusionMolecular ChaperonesMunc18 ProteinsNerve Tissue ProteinsNeuronsOptical TweezersProtein BindingProtein DomainsQa-SNARE ProteinsSNARE ProteinsSynaptic TransmissionSynaptic VesiclesSynaptosomal-Associated Protein 25Syntaxin 1Molecular ChaperonesMunc18 ProteinsNerve Tissue ProteinsQa-SNARE ProteinsSNAP25 protein, humanSNARE ProteinsSynaptosomal-Associated Protein 25Syntaxin 1UNC13B protein, humanVAMP2 protein, humanVesicle-Associated Membrane Protein 2Munc13-1Munc18-1optical tweezersSNARE assemblytemplate complex

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PMID31888993
PMCPMC6969487
OpenAlexW2996914143

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