Preface -- Part 1 Overview -- 1 Overview: Presynaptic Terminal Proteins Orchestrate Stepwise Synaptic Vesicle Phases (Sumiko Mochida) -- Part 2 Presynaptic Active Zone Proteins -- 2 Active Zone Assembly (Thomas Dresbach) -- 3 Network of Protein-Protein Interaction at the Presynaptic Active Zone (Toshihisa Ohtsuka) -- Part 3 Synaptic Vesicle Fusion.- 4 Fusion Machinery: SNARE Protein Complex (Ira Milosevic and Jakob B. Sørensen).- 5 Roles of Tomosyn in Neurotransmitter Release (Yasunori Yamamoto and Toshiaki Sakisaka).- 6 Regulation of SNAREs: Complexin (Hiroshi Tokumaru).- 7 The Synaptic Vesicle V-ATPase: A Regulatory Link Between Loading and Fusion? (Oussama El Far and Michael Seager).- 8 Ca2+ Sensors: Synaptotagmins (Tei-ichi Nishiki, Kentaro Kuroki, Toshio Masumoto, and Hideki Matsui).- 9 Regulation of Active Zone Ca2+ Channels (Karina Leal and Sumiko Mochida) -- Part 4 Synaptic Vesicle Endocytosis -- 10 Endocytic Machinery at theNeuronal Synapse (Ira Milosevic) -- 11 Dynamin is a Key Molecule to Decode Action Potential Firing (Shota Tanifuji and Sumiko Mochida) -- Part 5 Synaptic Vesicle Refilling and Storage -- 12 Transport of Amino Acid Neurotransmitters Into Synaptic Vesicles (Shigeo Takamori) -- 13 Synapsins and Synaptic Vesicle Storage (Fabrizia C. Guarnieri, Fabio Benfenati, and Flavia Valtorta) -- Part 6 Synaptic Vesicle Pools -- 14 Synaptic Vesicle Pools: Classical and Emerging Roles (Sven Truckenbrodt and Silvio O. Rizzoli) -- BM Index.