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Wrestling with SUMO

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The process of SUMOylation affects various cellular events by modifying the proteins involved. In neurons, it controls receptor numbers on the cell surface, thereby regulating neuronal communication.

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Figure 1: Post-translational modification and the regulation of ionotropic glutamate receptors.

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  1. Françoise Coussen and Daniel Choquet are at the Institut François Magendie, Physiologie Cellulaire de la Synapse, UMR CNRS 5091, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux 33077, France. fcoussen@u-bordeaux2.fr dchoquet@u-bordeaux2.fr,

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