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RIM1 and RIM2 redundantly determine Ca2+ channel density and readily releasable pool size at a large hindbrain synapse

Ralf Schneggenburger, Yunyun Han, Zsolt Norbert Babai

The localization and density of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels at active zones are essential for the amount and kinetics of transmitter release at synapses. RIM proteins are scaffolding proteins at the active zone that bind to several other presynaptic protei ...

American Physiological Society2015

An Exclusion Zone for Ca2+ Channels around Docked Vesicles Explains Release Control by Multiple Channels at a CNS Synapse

Henry Markram, Ralf Schneggenburger, Olexiy Kochubey, Felix Schürmann, Yunyun Han, Daniel Keller, Zsolt Norbert Babai

The spatial arrangement of Ca2+ channels and vesicles remains unknown for most CNS synapses, despite of the crucial importance of this geometrical parameter for the Ca2+ control of transmitter release. At a large model synapse, the calyx of Held, transmitt ...

Public Library Science2015

Ca2+ channels and transmitter release at the active zone

Ralf Schneggenburger, Olexiy Kochubey, Yunyun Han

Ca2+-dependent transmitter release is the most important signaling mechanism for fast information transfer between neurons. Transmitter release takes places at highly specialized active zones with sub-micrometer dimension, which contain the molecular machi ...

Elsevier2012

RIM Determines Ca²+ Channel Density and Vesicle Docking at the Presynaptic Active Zone

Yunyun Han

Fast neurotransmitter release is essential for neuron-neuron communication and is initiated by the opening of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels close to docked vesicles at the presynaptic active zone. The high concentration of Ca2+ channels at the active zone is ...

EPFL2011

Developmental expression of Synaptotagmin isoforms in single calyx of Held-generating neurons

Ralf Schneggenburger, Olexiy Kochubey, Yunyun Han, Heather Mary Elizabeth Murray, Heike Runne, Le Xiao

The large glutamatergic calyx of Held synapse in the auditory brainstem has become a powerful model for studying transmitter release mechanisms, but the molecular bases of presynaptic function at this synapse are not well known. Here, we have used single-c ...

2010

Developmental regulation of the intracellular Ca2+ sensitivity of vesicle fusion and Ca2+-secretion coupling at the rat calyx of Held

Ralf Schneggenburger, Olexiy Kochubey, Yunyun Han

Developmental refinement of synaptic transmission can occur via changes in several pre- and postsynaptic factors, but it has been unknown whether the intrinsic Ca2+ sensitivity of vesicle fusion in the nerve terminal can be regulated during development. Us ...

2009