Fusion pores and fusion machines in Ca2+-triggered exocytosis

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 35, Issue , 2006, Pages 135-160

  Jackson, Meyer B ^a   Chapman, Edwin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Membrane; SNAP 25; SNARE; Synaptobrevin; Synaptotagmin; Syntaxin

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; SNARE PROTEIN; SYNAPTOBREVIN; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNAPTOTAGMIN; SYNTAXIN;

AMPEROMETRY; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CHANNEL GATING; EXOCYTOSIS; FLUORESCENCE; MEMBRANE FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM SIGNALING; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXOCYTOSIS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE FUSION PROTEINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR MOTOR PROTEINS; POROSITY;

EID: 33646185099     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1080/05698190500544254     Document Type: Review

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