Transmembrane-domain determinants for SNARE-mediated membrane fusion

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 123, Issue 14, 2010, Pages 2473-2480

  Fdez, Elena ^a   Martínez Salvador, Mar ^a   Beard, Matthew ^b   Woodman, Philip ^c   Hilfiker, Sabine ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE PARASITOLOGÍA Y BIOMEDICINA LÓPEZ NEYRA   (Spain)

^b SYNTAXIN LTD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bimolecular fluorescence complementation; Membrane fusion; Synaptobrevin; Transmembrane domain

Indexed keywords

GLYCINE; SNARE PROTEIN; SYNAPTOBREVIN 2; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNTAXIN 1A;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELETION MUTANT; DIMERIZATION; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE VESICLE; MUTATION; NEUROSECRETION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE FUSION; MICROSCOPY, FLUORESCENCE; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTATION; NEUROSECRETION; PC12 CELLS; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; RATS; SNARE PROTEINS; SYNAPTOSOMAL-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNTAXIN 1; VESICLE-ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN 2;

EID: 77954905204     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.061325     Document Type: Article

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