Composition of isolated synaptic boutons reveals the amounts of vesicle trafficking proteins

Abstract

High-definition view of the synapse Individual neurons communicate with one another via their synapses, so to understand the nervous system, we need to understand in detail how the synapses are organized. Wilhelm et al. present a quantitative molecular-scale image of the “average” synapse populated with realistic renditions of each of the protein components that contribute to the inner workings of neurons. Science , this issue p. 1023