Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

Munc13-1 and Munc18-1 together prevent NSF-dependent de-priming of synaptic vesicles

  • Enqi He,
  • Keimpe Wierda,
  • Rhode van Westen,
  • Jurjen H. Broeke,
  • Ruud F. Toonen,
  • L. Niels Cornelisse,
  • Matthijs Verhage

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15915
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The molecular mechanism underlying the generation and maintenance of the readily releasable pool composed of primed synaptic vesicles is only partially known. Here the authors show that in mouse primary neurons, Munc13-1 and Munc18-1 stabilize primed synaptic vesicles by preventing NSF-dependent de-priming.