Protein-Mediated Membrane Fusion

✍ Scribed by Stegmann, T; Doms, R W; Helenius, A

• Book ID: 121339294
• Publisher: Annual Reviews
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 812 KB
• Volume: 18
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0883-9182
• DOI: 10.1146/annurev.bb.18.060189.001155

✦ Synopsis

The ability to undergo fusion and fission constitutes one of the most central and elusive properties of biological membranes. Thousands of fusion and fission events occur every minute in a living cell as vesicles fo rm and disappear. Fusion and fission have crucial roles in endocytosis, secretion, cell division, fe rtilization, polykaryon formation, and numerous other