Membranes of the world unite!
Open Access
- 16 October 2006
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of cell biology
- Vol. 175 (2), 201-207
- https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.200607083
Abstract
Despite diverse origins, cellular fusion mechanisms converge at a pathway of phospholipid bilayer fusion. In this mini-review, we discuss how proteins can mediate each of the three major stages in the fusion pathway: contact, hemifusion, and the opening of an expanding fusion pore.Keywords
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