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NATURE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages 577-U83Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nn.2532
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- McKnight and Kinship Foundations
- US National Institutes of Health [EY000785, EY018111]
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Understanding the fundamental role of soluble NSF attachment protein receptor (SNARE) complexes in membrane fusion requires knowledge of the spatiotemporal dynamics of their assembly. We visualized complexin (cplx), a cytosolic protein that binds assembled SNARE complexes, during single exocytic events in live cells. We found that cplx appeared briefly during full fusion. However, a truncated version of cplx containing only the SNARE-complex binding region persisted at fusion sites for seconds and caused fusion to be transient. Resealing pores with the mutant cplx only partially released transmitter and lipid probes, indicating that the pores are narrow and not purely lipidic in structure. Depletion of cplx similarly caused secretory cargo to be retained. These data suggest that cplx is recruited at a late step in exocytosis and modulates fusion pores composed of SNARE complexes.
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