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Howarth, M., Chinnapen, D. J., Gerrow, K., Dorrestein, P. C., Grandy, M. R., Kelleher, N. L., El-Husseini, A., and Ting, A. Y. (2006). A monovalent streptavidin with a single femtomolar biotin binding site. Nat Methods 3, 267-273.

Gerrow, K., Romorini, S., Nabi, S. M., Colicos, M. A., Sala, C., and El-Husseini, A. (2006). A preformed complex of postsynaptic proteins is involved in excitatory synapse development. Neuron 49, 547-562.

Lise, M. F., Wong, T. P., Trinh, A., Hines, R. M., Liu, L., Kang, R., Hines, D. J., Lu, J., Goldenring, J. R., Wang, Y. T., and El-Husseini, A. (2006). Involvement of Myosin Vb in glutamate receptor trafficking. J Biol Chem 281, 3669-3678.

Levinson, J. N., Chery, N., Huang, K., Wong, T. P., Gerrow, K., Kang, R., Prange, O., Wang, Y. T., and El-Husseini, A. (2005). Neuroligins Mediate Excitatory and Inhibitory Synapse Formation: involvement of PSD-95 and neurexin-1{beta} in neuroligin-induced synaptic specificity. J Biol Chem 280, 17312-17319.

Huang, K., Yanai, A., Kang, R., Arstikaitis, P., Singaraja, R. R., Metzler, M., Mullard, A., Haigh, B., Gauthier-Campbell, C., Gutekunst, C. A., et al. (2004). Huntingtin-Interacting Protein HIP14 Is a Palmitoyl Transferase Involved in Palmitoylation and Trafficking of Multiple Neuronal Proteins. Neuron 44, 977-986.

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Kang, R., Swayze, R., Lise, M. F., Gerrow, K., Mullard, A., Honer, W. G., and El-Husseini, A. (2004). Presynaptic trafficking of synaptotagmin I is regulated by protein palmitoylation. J Biol Chem 279, 50524-50536.

Gauthier-Campbell, C., Bredt, D. S., Murphy, T. H., and El-Husseini, A. E.-D. (2004). Regulation of Dendritic Branching and Filopodia Formation in Hippocampal Neurons by Specific Acylated Protein Motifs. Mol Biol Cell 15, 2205-2217.

Swayze, R. D., Lise, M.-F., Levinson, J. N., Phillips, A., and El-Husseini, A. (2004). Modulation of dopamine mediated phosphorylation of AMPA receptors by PSD-95 and AKAP79/150. Neuropharmacology 47, 764-778.

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Levinson, J. N., and El-Husseini, A. (2005). Building excitatory and inhibitory synapses: balancing neuroligin partnerships. Neuron 48, 171-174.