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Membrane Fusion Involved in Neurotransmission: Glimpse from Electron Microscope and Molecular Simulation

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, June 2017
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Title
Membrane Fusion Involved in Neurotransmission: Glimpse from Electron Microscope and Molecular Simulation
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Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience, June 2017
DOI 10.3389/fnmol.2017.00168
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Zhiwei Yang, Lu Gou, Shuyu Chen, Na Li, Shengli Zhang, Lei Zhang

Abstract

Membrane fusion is one of the most fundamental physiological processes in eukaryotes for triggering the fusion of lipid and content, as well as the neurotransmission. However, the architecture features of neurotransmitter release machinery and interdependent mechanism of synaptic membrane fusion have not been extensively studied. This review article expounds the neuronal membrane fusion processes, discusses the fundamental steps in all fusion reactions (membrane aggregation, membrane association, lipid rearrangement and lipid and content mixing) and the probable mechanism coupling to the delivery of neurotransmitters. Subsequently, this work summarizes the research on the fusion process in synaptic transmission, using electron microscopy (EM) and molecular simulation approaches. Finally, we propose the future outlook for more exciting applications of membrane fusion involved in synaptic transmission, with the aid of stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (STORM), cryo-EM (cryo-EM), and molecular simulations.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 43 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 9 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 7 16%
Student > Master 4 9%
Student > Bachelor 3 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Other 8 19%
Unknown 9 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 14 33%
Neuroscience 6 14%
Chemistry 3 7%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 5%
Computer Science 2 5%
Other 5 12%
Unknown 11 26%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 June 2017.
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#14,351,475
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Outputs from Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
#1,546
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#177,044
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
#67
of 118 outputs
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