Phenotypic interaction between temperature-sensitive paralytic mutants comatose and paralytic suggests a role for N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion factor in synaptic vesicle cycling in Drosophila.

Abstract excerpt

The temperature-induced paralysis of comatose (comt) mutants of Drosophila is suggestive of a function for N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion factor (NSF) in the CNS. Mutations in the para gene encoding the subunit of the voltage-gated sodium channel also result in a similar phenotype. We show that paralysis in comt flies is activity-dependent, and in the doubly mutant comt para flies comt-like paralysis does not...

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

• Share to Carrier Proteins
• Share to Drosophila