Compartmental specificity of cellular membrane fusion encoded in SNARE proteins

Nature

Volumn 407, Issue 6801, 2000, Pages 153-159

  McNew, James A ^a,b   Parlatl, Francesco ^a   Fukuda, Ryouichi ^a,c   Johnston, Robert J ^a   Paz, Keren ^a   Paumet, Fablenne ^a   Söllner, Thomas H ^a   Rothman, James E ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SNARE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL VACUOLE; GOLGI COMPLEX; MEMBRANE FUSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL COMPARTMENTATION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GOLGI APPARATUS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; LIPOSOMES; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; QA-SNARE PROTEINS; QC-SNARE PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SNARE PROTEINS; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0034648836     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35025000     Document Type: Article

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