Neuroligation: building synapses around the neurexin−neuroligin
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Anuradha Rao, Kimberly J. Harms
& Ann Marie Craig
The authors are in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology,
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis,
Missouri 63110, USA. acraig@pcg.wustl.edu
Serafini and colleagues provide evidence that neuroligin acts as
a trans-neuronal signal to induce presynaptic differentiation at neuron−neuron
connections in vitro.