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Nature Neuroscience 12, 1357 - 1358 (2009)
doi:10.1038/nn1109-1357
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Stephan J Sigrist1 & Andrew J R Plested2
- Stephan J. Sigrist is at Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany
- Andrew J. R. Plested is in the Leibniz-Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin, Germany. Both are members of Neurocure Cluster of Excellence (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft).
Correspondence to: Stephan J Sigrist1 e-mail: stephan.sigrist@fu-berlin.de
Abstract
The 
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-3 auxiliary subunit of voltage-dependent calcium channels promotes the formation of synaptic boutons in Drosophila neuromuscular junction independently of its role in channel localization.
