Nature Communications (Sep 2018)

Two-component latency distributions indicate two-step vesicular release at simple glutamatergic synapses

  • Takafumi Miki,
  • Yukihiro Nakamura,
  • Gerardo Malagon,
  • Erwin Neher,
  • Alain Marty

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-06336-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Traditionally, synaptic release latency has been viewed as constant. Here, at parallel fiber-interneuron synapses, authors see that with sustained release emerges a slow component of increased latencies, which can be simulated with a 2-step model comprised of vesicle docking followed by release.