The molecular organization of the postsynaptic density by GKAP and shank
By: a thesis presented by Scott Raymon Naisbitt
Published: 2001
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Neural transmission; Neural circuitry; Ion channels; Membranes (Biology)
Notes: Thesis (Ph. D., Division of Medical Sciences (Neurobiology))--Harvard University, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-107).
Table of contents: title: Includes five offprints :; title: GKAP, a synaptic protein that interacts with guanylate kinase-like domain of the PSD-95/SAP90 family of channel clustering molecules -- (Journal of cell biology, v.136:3, February 10, 1997, pp.669-678); title: Characterization of GKAP, a postsynaptic density protein at excitatory synapses that interacts directly with PSD-95/SAP90 -- (Journal of neuroscience, v.17:15, August 1, 1997, pp.5687-5696); title: Shank, a novel family of postsynaptic density proteins that binds to the NMDA receptor/PSD-95/GKAP complex and cortactin -- (Neuron, v.23, July 1999, pp.569-582); title: Coupling of MGLUR/HOMER and PSD-95 complexes in the shank family of postsynaptic density proteins -- (Neuron, v. 23, July 1999, pp.583-592); title: Interaction of the PSD-95/GKAP complex with a light chain of mysoin-v and dynein-- (Journal of neuroscience, v.20:12, June 15, 2000, pp.4524-4534)