An electrostatically preferred lateral orientation of SNARE complex suggests novel mechanisms for driving membrane fusion

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Guo, Ting ^a,b   Gong, Lin Chen ^a   Sui, Sen Fang ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE FUSION PROTEIN; SNARE PROTEIN; SYNAPTOTAGMIN;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; MEMBRANE FUSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SYNAPSE VESICLE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EUKARYOTA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; MEMBRANE FUSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SNARE PROTEINS; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 77749270621     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0008900     Document Type: Article

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