Synaptic Ménage à Trois

Elisabetta Furlanis; Peter Scheiffele

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2016.05.007

Synaptic Ménage à Trois

Neuron. 2016 May 18;90(4):665-7. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.05.007.

Authors

Elisabetta Furlanis¹, Peter Scheiffele²

Affiliations

¹ Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50-70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
² Biozentrum of the University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50-70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: peter.scheiffele@unibas.ch.

PMID: 27196968
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.05.007

Abstract

Regulation of neurotransmitter receptor localization is critical for synaptic function and plasticity. In this issue of Neuron, Matsuda and colleagues (Matsuda et al., 2016) uncover a transsynaptic complex consisting of neurexin-3, C1q-like proteins, and kainate receptors that drives glutamate receptor clustering at hippocampal synapses.

Publication types

Review
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Comment

MeSH terms

Animals
Excitatory Postsynaptic Potentials / physiology*
Hippocampus / physiology
Humans
Neuronal Plasticity / physiology*
Neurons / metabolism*
Synapses / metabolism*
Synaptic Transmission / physiology*