title: Transsynaptic coordination of presynaptic and postsynaptic modifications underlying enduring synaptic plasticity.
abstract: Neurexins and neuroligins are cell adhesion molecules that form transsynaptic interactions. In this issue of Neuron, Choi et al. report that neurexin-neuroligin signaling plays a critical role in functional and structural synaptic plasticity underlying memory formation in Aplysia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697-4550, USA.
authors.forename: Xiaojing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.forename: Thomas J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Carew