Fusion of constitutive membrane traffic with the cell surface observed by evanescent wave microscopy

Journal of Cell Biology

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 33-40

  Toomre, Derek ^a,b   Steyer, Jürgen A ^c   Keller, Patrick ^a,b   Almers, Wolfhard ^c   Simons, Kai ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Germany)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Docking; Exocytosis; Green fluorescent protein; Membrane fusion; Total internal reflection

Indexed keywords

GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL SURFACE; CHROMAFFIN GRANULE; EXOCYTOSIS; GOLGI COMPLEX; MEMBRANE FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; STOMATITIS;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CELL LINE; CELL MEMBRANE; CYTOPLASMIC GRANULES; DIFFUSION; EXOCYTOSIS; FLUORESCENCE; GOLGI APPARATUS; KINETICS; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MICROSCOPY; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

RUMEX; VESICULAR STOMATITIS VIRUS;

EID: 0034599547     PISSN: 00219525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.149.1.33     Document Type: Article

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