title: A structural approach to decipher the neurexin and neuroligin splice isoform code.
abstract: The alternative splicing of neurexins (NRXs) and neuroligins (NLs) has been implicated in specifying synaptic connections. In this issue of Neuron, Koehnke et al. took a structural approach for assessing the contribution of alternative splice isoforms for beta-NRX/NL-mediated synaptic recognition.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Neuroscience Center, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: Zhiyi
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wei
authors.forename: Mingjie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhang