Synaptic vesicle docking and fusion are mediated by the assembly of a stable SNARE core complex of proteins, which include the synaptic vesicle membrane protein VAMP/synaptobrevin and the ...
Using cryo-electron tomography, the team was able to visualize synaptic vesicles (SVs) in 3D and confirm a potentially important protein-protein interaction. They also broadened our understanding ...
They also broadened our understanding of SV function and of how the vesicles are recycled. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS.) “Synaptic ...
To do this, the synaptic vesicle must dock at the membrane of the presynaptic neuron and dump its content into the synapse, where it moves to particular receptors on the postsynaptic neuron.
Between impulses the transmitter molecules are rapidly removed from the synaptic cleft to prevent ... the presynaptic neuron and restored inside a vesicle ready to be used again.