Membrane Fusion: All Done with SNAREpins?

Overview

Journal Curr Biol

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Biology

Date 1998 Jun 23

PMID 9635186

Citations 7

Authors

J M Edwardson

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Abstract

SNARE proteins are sufficient to fuse artificial membranes together. In the cell, vesicle transport may rely on fusion mediated by interaction between vesicle (v) and target (t) SNAREs, whereas the homotypic fusion of organelle biogenesis may be mediated by t-SNARE-t-SNARE interaction.

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