Getting a bead on receptor movements.
Studies of populations of receptor proteins suggest that their number and location are highly regulated. Single-particle tracking of glycine receptors now reveals the direct movement of receptors between different clusters of the anchoring protein gephyrin.
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA. acraig@pcg.wustl.edu
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