
«A lever hypothesis for Synaptotagmin-1 action in neurotransmitter release.«
JJaczynska K, Esser V, Xu J, Sari L, Lin MM, Rosenmund C, Rizo J. Proc Natl
Acad Sci U S A. 2025 Jan 7;122(1):e2417941121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.2417941121.
Model showing how the synaptotagmin-1 C2B domain (orange) acts as a lever when it reorients on the membrane upon binding to calcium (blue circles) and pulls the SNARE complex (yellow, red and green), facilitating extension of the synaptobrevin and syntaxin-1 helices such that the transmembrane regions are drawn to the polar interface between the membranes and catalyze membrane fusion in microseconds.