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SUBMITTER: Grabner CP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1502501 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Grabner Chad P CP Price Steven D SD Lysakowski Anna A Cahill Anne L AL Fox Aaron P AP
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20060620 26
Adaptor protein 3 (AP-3) is a vesicle-coat protein that forms a heterotetrameric complex. Two types of AP-3 subunits are found in mammalian cells. Ubiquitous AP-3 subunits are expressed in all tissues of the body, including the brain. In addition, there are neuronal AP-3 subunits that are thought to serve neuron-specific functions such as neurotransmitter release. In this study, we show that overexpression of neuronal AP-3 in mouse chromaffin cells results in a striking decrease in the neurotran ...[more]