Testing the SNARE/SM protein model of membrane fusion

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

Volumn 107, Issue 52, 2010, Pages 22365-22366

  Bacaj, Taulant ^a   Pang, Zhiping P ^a   Südhof, Thomas C ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOSOME; MUNC18 PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER; PROTEIN SM; SNARE PROTEIN; SYNAPTOBREVIN; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNTAXIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BIOGENESIS; CELL DIVISION; EUKARYOTIC CELL; MEMBRANE FUSION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NEUROMUSCULAR SYNAPSE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHOSPHOLIPID MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MOTIF;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SNARE PROTEINS; SYNTAXIN 1; TIME FACTORS; VESICULAR TRANSPORT PROTEINS;

EID: 78651086263     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017268108     Document Type: Note

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