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Complexin arrests a neighbor

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Mechanistic details about complexin's contradictory double life as both a facilitator and an inhibitor of SNARE-mediated synaptic vesicle fusion have been challenging to uncover. A series of studies in this issue addresses the problem by revealing a switchable complexin conformation in which fusion arrest occurs when complexin clamps neighboring SNAREs.

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Figure 1: Complexin modulates SNARE-driven membrane fusion of synaptic vesicles.
Figure 2: Schematics illustrating the configuration of complexin.

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