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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Rash JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4020187 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Neuron 20130901 5
Electrical synapses are abundant in the vertebrate brain, but their functional and molecular complexities are still poorly understood. We report here that electrical synapses between auditory afferents and goldfish Mauthner cells are constructed by apposition of hemichannels formed by two homologs of mammalian connexin 36 (Cx36) and that, while Cx35 is restricted to presynaptic hemiplaques, Cx34.7 is restricted to postsynaptic hemiplaques, forming heterotypic junctions. This molecular asymmetry ...[more]