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. 2000 Dec;28(3):941-53.
doi: 10.1016/s0896-6273(00)00165-3.

Size of vesicle pools, rates of mobilization, and recycling at neuromuscular synapses of a Drosophila mutant, shibire

R Delgado  1 , C Maureira, C Oliva, Y Kidokoro, P Labarca
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Size of vesicle pools, rates of mobilization, and recycling at neuromuscular synapses of a Drosophila mutant, shibire

R Delgado et al. Neuron. 2000 Dec.
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Abstract

Two vesicle pools, readily releasable (RRP) and reserve (RP) pools, are present at Drosophila neuromuscular junctions. Using a temperature-sensitive mutant, shibire(ts), we studied pool sizes and vesicle mobilization rates. In shibire(ts), due to lack of endocytosis at nonpermissive temperatures, synaptic currents continuously declined during tetanic stimulation until they ceased as the result of vesicle depletion. By then, approximately 84,000 quanta were released. Vesicles were mobilized from RP at a rate 1/7-1/10 of RRP. Cytochalasin D inhibited mobilization of vesicles from RP, allowing us to estimate the size of RRP as 14%-19% of all vesicles. Vesicle recycling supports synaptic transmission during prolonged tetanic stimulation and the maximum recycling rate was 1000 vesicles/s.

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