Center for Translational Neuroscience / Faculty / Calakos

Laboratory of Nicole Calakos, M.D., Ph.D.

	1. Zhang, Z., Burke, M.W., Calakos, N., Beaulieu, J.-M., and E. Vaucher. Confocal analysis of cholinergic and dopaminergic inputs onto pyramidal cells in the prefrontal cortex of rodents. 2010. Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, Jun 14;4:21, PMCID2893003.
	2. Chen, M., Wan, Y., Ade, K., Ting, J., Feng, G., and N. Calakos. Sapap3 deletion causes anomalous endocannabinoid-mediated synaptic plasticity by enhancing group 1 metabotropic glutamate receptor activity. In press, 2011. The Journal of Neuroscience. 31 (26):9563-9573.
	Ade, K., Wan, Y., Chen, M., Gloss, B. and N. Calakos. An improved BAC transgenic fluorescent reporter line for sensitive and specific identification of striatonigral medium spiny neurons. 2011. Frontiers in Neuroscience 5 (32):1-9.
	Yang, Y. and N. Calakos. Acute in vivo genetic rescue demonstrates that phosphorylation of RIM1alpha serine 413 is not required for mossy fiber long-term potentiation. 2010. The Journal of Neuroscience. 30 (7):2542-6.
	Calakos, N., Patel, V.D., Gottron, M., Wang, G., Tran-Viet, K.-N., Brewington, D., Beyer, J.L., Steffens, D.C., Krishnan, R.R., and S. Zuchner. Functional evidence implicating a novel TOR1A mutation in idiopathic, late-onset focal dystonia. 2009. Journal of Medical Genetics, epub PMID:19955557.
	Shuen, J.A., Chen, M., Gloss, B., and N. Calakos. Drd1a-tdTomato transgenic mice for simultaneous visualization of MSNs in the direct and indirect pathways of the basal ganglia. 2008. The Journal of Neuroscience, 28(11):2681-5.
	Welch, J.M., Lu, J., Rodriguiz, R.M., Trotta, N.C., Peca, J., Ding, J-D., Feliciano, C., Adams, J.P., Dudek, S.M., Weinberg, R.J., Calakos, N., Wetsel, W.C., and Feng, G., 2007. Cortico-striatal synaptic defects and OCD-like behaviors in SAPAP3 mutant mice. Nature, 448(7156): 894-900.
	Marie, H., Morishita, W., Yu, X., Calakos, N., and R.C. Malenka. 2005. Generation of Silent Synapses by Acute In Vivo Expression of CaMKIV and CREB. Neuron 45(5):741-752.
	Calakos, N., Schoch, S., Sudhof, T.C., and R.C. Malenka. 2004. Multiple Roles for the Active Zone Protein RIM1α in Late Stages of Neurotransmitter Release. Neuron 42(6):889-896 [Highlighted in Nat. Rev. Neurosci. 5(8):601, 2004]
	Calakos, N., N. Fischbein, J.R. Baringer and C.A. Jay. 2000. Cortical MRI Findings Associated with Rapid Correction of Hyponatremia. Neurology 55(7):1048-51.
	Calakos, N. and R.H. Scheller. 1996. Synaptic Vesicle Biogenesis, Docking and Fusion: A Molecular Description. Physiological Reviews 76(1):1-29.
	Meffert, M.K., N. Calakos, R.H. Scheller and H. Schulman. 1996. Nitric Oxide Modulates Synaptic Vesicle Docking Fusion Reactions. Neuron 16(6):1229-1236.
	Calakos, N., M.K. Bennett, K.E. Peterson and R.H. Scheller. 1994. Protein-Protein Interactions Contributing to the Specificity of Intracellular Vesicular Trafficking. Science 263:1146-1149.
	Calakos, N. and R.H. Scheller. 1994. Vesicle-Associated Membrane Protein (VAMP) and Synaptophysin are Associated on the Synaptic Vesicle. The Journal of Biological Chemistry 269(40): 24534-24537.
	Pevsner, J., S-C. Hsu, J.E.A. Braun, N. Calakos, A.E. Ting, M.K. Bennett and R.H. Scheller. 1994. Specificity and Regulation of a Synaptic Vesicle Docking Complex. Neuron 13:353-361.
	Bennett, M.K., N. Calakos and R.H. Scheller. 1992. Syntaxin: A Synaptic Protein Implicated in Docking of Synaptic Vesicles at Presynaptic Active Zones. Science 257:255-259.
	Bennett, M.K., N. Calakos, T. Kreiner and R.H. Scheller. 1991. Synaptic Vesicle Membrane Proteins Interact to Form a Multimeric Commplex. The Journal of Cell Biology 116:761-775.