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The nanoscale mobility of calcium channels is driven by readily releasable synaptic vesicles to support precise

Yunke Zhao1, Dai Zhai1, Fabien Pinaud1,2

  • 1Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, 1050 Child Way, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.

Biorxiv : the Preprint Server for Biology
|April 10, 2026
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Keywords:
Active zoneNanoscale diffusionSNARESuper-resolution imagingSynaptic vesicle releaseUNC-10UNC-13Voltage-gated calcium channels

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