Greasing membrane fusion and fission machineries

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Volumn 1, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 605-613

  Burger, Koert N J ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Fission; Fusion; Lipid polymorphism; Lysophosphatidic acid; Membrane curvature; Phosphatidic acid; Type II lipids

Indexed keywords

ACYLTRANSFERASE; MEMBRANE LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; LIPID BILAYER; MEMBRANE FUSION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ACYLTRANSFERASES; ANIMALS; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 0034252954     PISSN: 13989219     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0854.2000.010804.x     Document Type: Article

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