Selected Publications

Juhyun Kim, Sang-Yong Jung, Yeon Kyung Lee, Sangki Park, June-Seek Choi, C. Justin Lee, Yun-Beom Choi, Peter Scheiffele, Craig H. Bailey, Eric R. Kandel, and Joung-Hun Kim. Neuroligin-1 stabilizes NMDARs for expression of LTP and associative fear memory in the amygdala of adult animals. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2008; in press.
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Z. Josh Huang and Peter Scheiffele. GABA and neuroligin signaling: linking synaptic activity and adhesion in inhibitory synapse development. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 2008; 18(1):77-83 in press.
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Jesko Koehnke, Xiangshu Jin, Nikola Trbovic, Phinikoula S. Katsamba, Julia Brasch, Goran Ahlsen, Peter Scheiffele, Barry Honig, Arthur G. Palmer III and Lawrence Shapiro. Crystal structures of beta-neurexin 1 and beta-neurexin 2 ectodomains and dynamics of splice insertion sequence 4. Structure. 2008; 16(3):410-21.
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Jesko Koehnke, Xia Jin, Elaine C. Budreck, Shoshanna Posy, Peter Scheiffele, Barry Honig, Lawrence Shapiro. Crystal structure of the extracellular cholinesterase-like domain from neuroligin-2. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 2008; 105(6):1873-8.
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Sergio Gascon, Jose Paez-Gomez, Margareta Diaz-Guerra, Peter Scheiffele, Francisco G. Scholl. Dual-promoter lentiviral vectors for constitutive and regulated gene expression in neurons. Journal of Neuroscience Methods, 2008; 168(1):104-12.
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Asim A. Beg, Julia Sommer, John H. Martin, and Peter Scheiffele. Alpha2-chimaerin is an essential EphA4 effector in the assembly of neuronal locomotor circuits. Neuron, 2007; 55:768-778.
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Kensuke Futai, Myung Jong Kim, Tsutomo Hashikawa, Peter Scheiffele, Morgan Sheng, Yasunori Hayashi. Retrograde modulation of presynaptic release probability through signaling mediated by PSD-95-neuroligin. Nature Neuroscience, 2007; 10:186-19.
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Hiroki Taniguchi, Leora Gollan, Francisco Gomez Scholl, Veeravan Mahadomrongkul, Elizabeth Dobler, Nicolas Limthong, Morgen Peck, Chiye Aoki, Peter Scheiffele. Silencing of neuroligin function by postsynaptic neurexins. The Journal of Neuroscience, 2007; 27:2815-2824.
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Thomas Biederer and Peter Scheiffele. Mixed culture assays for analyzing neuronal synapse formation. Nature Protocols; 2007; 2(3):670-676.
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Elaine Budreck and Peter Scheiffele. Neuroligin-3 is an adhesion protein at GABAergic and glutamatergic synapses. European Journal of Neuroscience, 2007; 26(7):1738-48.
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Ben Chih, Leora Gollan, Peter Scheiffele, 2006.  Alternative splicing controls selective trans-synaptic interactions of the neuroligin-neurexin complex.  Neuron 51:171-8.
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Asim Beg, Peter Scheiffele, 2006.  Neuroscience.  SUMO wrestles the synapse.  Science 311:962-3.
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Philip Buttery, Asim Beg, Ben Chih, Arkady Broder, Carol Mason, Peter Scheiffele,  2006.  The diacylglycerol-binding protein alpha1-chimaerin regulates dendritic morphology.  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103:1924-9.
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Carlos Rosales, Kyle Osborne, Griselda Zuccarino, Peter Scheiffele, Michael Silverman, 2005.  A cytoplasmic motif targets neuroligin-1 exclusively to dendrites of cultured hippocampal neurons.  The European Journal of Neuroscience 22:2381-6.
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Ben Chih, Holly Engelman, Peter Scheiffele, 2005.  Control of excitatory and inhibitory synapse formation by neuroligins.  Science 307:1324-8.
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Philip Washbourne, Alexander Dityatev, Peter Scheiffele, Thomas Biederer, Jeffrey Weiner, Karen Christopherson, Ala El-Husseini, 2004.  Cell adhesion molecules in synapse formation.  Journal of Neuroscience  24:9244-9.
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Ben Chih, Shehla Khan Afridi, Lorraine Clark, Peter Scheiffele, 2004. Disorder-associated mutations lead to functional inactivation of neuroligins. Human Molecular Genetics 13:1471-7.
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Anna Kalinovsky and Peter Scheiffele, 2004. Transcriptional control of synaptic differentiation by retrograde signals. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 14:272-279.
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Camin Dean and Peter Scheiffele, 2004. Imaging synaptogenesis by measuring the accumulation of synaptic proteins in transfected primary neurons. In: Imaging Neurons, editors: Yuste, Lanni, Konnerth, CSHL Press, 2 nd edition.

Peter Scheiffele, 2003. Cell-cell signaling during synapse formation in the CNS. Annual Reviews in Neuroscience 26:485-508
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Camin Dean*, Francisco G. Scholl*, Jenny Choih, James Berger, Ehud Isacoff, and Peter Scheiffele, 2003. Neurexin mediates the assembly of presynaptic terminals. Nature Neuroscience 6:708-716.
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Francisco G. Scholl and Peter Scheiffele, 2003. Making connections: Cholinesterase domain proteins in the central nervous system. Trends in Neurosciences, 26:618-624.
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Elva Díaz,Yongchao Ge, Yee Hwa Yang, Kenneth C. Loh, Tito A. Serafini, Yasushi Okazaki, Yoshihide Hayashizaki, Terence P. Speed, John Ngai, and Peter Scheiffele, 2002. Molecular analysis of gene expression in the developing pontocerebellar projection system. Neuron 36:417-434.
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Peter Scheiffele, Jinhong Fan, Jenny Choih, Richard Fetter, and Tito A. Serafini, 2000. Neuroligin expressed in nonneuronal cells triggers presynaptic development in contacting axons. Cell 101: 657-669.
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Katja Brückner*, Juan-Pablo Labrador*, Peter Scheiffele*, Anne Herbst*, Peter H. Seeburg, and Rüdiger Klein, 1999. EphrinB ligands recruit GRIP family PDZ adaptor proteins into raft membrane microdomains. Neuron 22:511-524.
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