Abstract
Chemical synapses are the main mechanism of communication in the nervous system. At the presynaptic terminal, neurotransmitters are packaged into synaptic vesicles (SVs); when an action potential opens presynaptic voltage-gated Ca2+ channels, the neurotransmitters are released by Ca2+-triggered exocytosis into the synaptic cleft to activate postsynaptic receptors. SV exocytosis is restricted to the small section of the presynaptic plasma membrane called the active zone, which contains clustered Cav2 (P/Q- and N-type) voltage-gated Ca2+ channels. BoNT= : botulinum neurotoxin; CaM= : calmodulin; CSP= : cysteine-string protein; Munc-13= : mammalian uncoordinated–13; NSF= : N-ethylmaleimide sensitive factor; RIM= : Rab-3 interacting molecules; RIM-BP= : RIM binding protein; SNAP= : soluble NSF-attachment protein; SNARE= : SNAp-REceptor; SV= : synaptic vesicle; SV2= : synaptic vesicle glycoprotein–2; synprint= : synaptic protein interaction; TeNT= : tetanus neurotoxin
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