Sentences with phrase «as synaptic vesicles»

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I ache to see your action potential in action To be blinded by the searing speed of your electric signal As it sparks from node to node To behold the violent beauty of vesicles fusing with your presynaptic membrane — Pouring their contents into your synaptic cleft How I wish to be your postsynaptic cell So that I may be flooded by your molecules

The structure of synaptophysin suggests that the protein may function as a channel in the synaptic vesicle membrane, with the carboxyl terminus serving as a binding site for cellular factors.

To determine whether the protein in question, at the time known as BNPI, mediated the transport of glutamate into synaptic vesicles, the researchers inserted the BNPI DNA into rat cells that normally lacked BNPI protein.

Channels, which allow a compound such as glutamate to move from a compartment with high concentrations to one with low concentrations, but not vice versa, can not pump as large amounts of a compound into synaptic vesicles as a transporter can.

Chaudhry FA, Reimer RJ, Bellocchio EE, Danbolt NC, Osen KK, Edwards RH, Storm - Mathisen J (1998) The vesicular GABA transporter, VGAT, localizes to synaptic vesicles in sets of glycinergic as well as GABAergic neurons J Neurosci, 18 (23), 9733 - 50 PubMed 9822734