A scissors mechanism for stimulation of SNARE-mediated lipid mixing by cholesterol

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 106, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 5141-5146

  Tong, Jiansong ^a   Borbat, Peter P ^b   Freed, Jack H ^b   Shin, Yeon Kyun ^a,c  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

EPR; Membrane fusion; Synaptobrevin; Syntaxin

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; LIPID; NEUROTRANSMITTER; SNARE PROTEIN; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNTAXIN 1; SYTAXIN 1A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DISULFIDE BOND; MEMBRANE FUSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEOLIPOSOME; STIMULATION; SYNAPSE VESICLE;

CHOLESTEROL; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMANS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SNARE PROTEINS;

EID: 65249144553     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0813138106     Document Type: Article

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