Last Author Publications

Oevel, K., Hohensee, S., Kumar, A., Rosas-Brugada, I., Bartolini, F., Soykan, T.*, Haucke, V.* (2024) Rho GTPase Signaling and mDia Facilitate Endocytosis via Presynaptic Actin. eLife, Mar 19;12:RP92755

Liu, G., Kochlamazashvili, G., Puchkov, D., Müller, R., Schultz, C., Mackintosh, A.I., Vollweiter, D., Haucke, V.*, Soykan, T.* (2022) Endosomal phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate levels control presynaptic vesicle cycling and neurotransmission. The EMBO Journal, 41(9) 1-19

Kuijpers, M., Azarnia Tehran, D., Haucke, V.*, & Soykan, T.* (2021) The axonal endolysosomal and autophagic systems. Journal of Neurochemistry, 158(3), 589–602


First Author Publications

Soykan, T., Haucke, V., & Kuijpers, M. (2021) Mechanism of synaptic protein turnover and its regulation by neuronal activity. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 69, 76–83

Soykan, T., Kaempf, N., Sakaba, T., Vollweiter, D., Goerdeler, F., Puchkov, D., Kononenko, N.L., Haucke, V. (2017) Synaptic Vesicle Endocytosis Occurs on Multiple Timescales and Is Mediated by Formin-Dependent Actin Assembly. Neuron, 93(4), 854-866

Soykan, T., Haucke, V. (2016) Cell biology: Membrane kiss mediates hormone secretion. Nature,534(7608), 479-80

Soykan, T., Maritzen, T., Haucke, V. (2016) Modes and mechanisms of synaptic vesicle recycling. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 39, 17-23

Soykan, T.*, Schneeberger, D.*, Tria, G., Buechner, C., Bader, N., Svergun, D., Tessmer, I., Poulopoulos, A., Papadopoulos T., Varoqueaux, F., Schindelin, H., Brose, N. (2014) A conformational switch in collybistin determines the differentiation of inhibitory postsynapses. The EMBO Journal, 33(18), 2113-33

Poulopoulos, A.*, Soykan, T.*, Tuffy, L., Varoqueaux, F. Brose, N. (2012) Homodimerization and isoform-specific heterodimerization of neuroligins. Biochemical Journal, 446(2), 321-30


Additional Publications

Altas, B., Tuffy, L.P., Patrizi, A., Dimova, K., Soykan, T., Brandenburg, C., Romanowski, A.J., Whitten, J.R., Robertson, C.D., Khim, S.N., Crutcher, G.W., Ambrozkiewicz, M.C., Yagensky, O., Krueger-Burg, D., Hammer, M., Hsiao, H.-H., Laskowski, P.R., Dyck, L., Puche, A.C., Sassoè-Pognetto, M., Chua, J.J.E., Urlaub, H., Jahn, O., Brose, N., Poulopoulos, A. (2023) Region-Specific Phosphorylation Determines Neuroligin-3 Localization to Excitatory versus Inhibitory Synapses. Biological Psychiatry, in press. 

Bolz, S., Kaempf, N., Puchkov, D., Krauss, M., Russo, G., Soykan, T., Schmied, C., Lehmann, M., Müller, R., Schultz, C., Perrais, D., Maritzen, T., Haucke, V. (2023) Synaptotagmin 1-triggered lipid signaling facilitates coupling of exo- and endocytosis. Neuron, 111(23), 3765-3774

Schmied, C., Soykan, T., Bolz, S., Haucke, V., Lehmann, M. (2021) SynActJ: Easy-to-use automated analysis of synaptic activity. Frontiers in Computer Science, 3:1-11

Ludolphs, M., Schneeberger, D., Soykan, T., Schäfer, J., Papadopoulos, T., Brose, N., Schindelin, H., Steinem, C. (2015) Specificity of collybistin-phosphoinositide interactions: Impact of the individual protein domains. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 291(1), 244-54

Mayer, S., Kumar, R., Jaiswal, M., Soykan, T., Ahmadian, M.R., Brose N., Betz H., Rhee JS., Papadopoulos T. (2013) Collybistin activation by GTP-TC10 enhances postsynaptic gephyrin clustering and hippocampal GABAergic neurotransmission. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 110, 20795-20800

Papadopoulos, T., Soykan, T. (2011) The role of Collybistin in Gephyrin clustering at inhibitory synapses: facts and open questions. Front. Cell. Neurosci. 5, 11

Hoon, M., Soykan, T.*, Falkenburger, B.*, Hammer, M., Patrizi, A., Schmidt, K.-F., Sassoè-Pognetto, M., Löwel, S., Moser, T., Taschenberger, H., Brose, N. & Varoqueaux, F. (2011) Neuroligin-4 is localized to glycinergic postsynapses and regulates inhibition in the retina. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA. 108, 3053-8

Poulopoulos, A., Aramuni, G., Meyer, G., Soykan, T., Hoon, M., Papadopoulos, T., Zhang, M., Paarmann, I., Fuchs, C., Harvey, K., Jedlicka, P., Schwarzacher, S.W., Betz, H., Harvey, R.J., Brose, N., Zhang, W. & Varoqueaux, F. (2009) Neuroligin 2 drives postsynaptic assembly at perisomatic inhibitory synapses through Gephyrin and Collybistin. Neuron 63, 628-642

(*equal contribution)