Publications by Zsolt Norbert Babai

A Synaptotagmin Isoform Switch during the Development of an Identified CNS Synapse

Ralf Schneggenburger, Olexiy Kochubey, Zsolt Norbert Babai

Various Synaptotagmin (Syt) isoform genes are found in mammals, but it is unknown whether Syts can function redundantly in a given nerve terminal, or whether isoforms can be switched during the development of a nerve terminal. Here, we investigated the pos ...

2016

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

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 Alien Divalent Ion Reveals a Major Role for Ca2+ Buffering in Controlling Slow Transmitter Release

Ralf Schneggenburger, Olexiy Kochubey, Daniel Keller, Zsolt Norbert Babai

Ca2+-dependent transmitter release occurs in a fast and in a slow phase, but the differential roles of Ca2+ buffers and Ca2+ sensors in shaping release kinetics are still controversial. Replacing extracellular Ca2+ by Sr2+ causes decreased fast release but ...

2014

Robo3-Driven Axon Midline Crossing Conditions Functional Maturation of a Large Commissural Synapse

Ralf Schneggenburger, Zsolt Norbert Babai

During the formation of neuronal circuits, axon pathfinding decisions specify the location of synapses on the correct brain side and in correct target areas. We investigated a possible link between axon midline crossing and the subsequent development of ou ...

Elsevier2013