Is lipid flippase activity of SNARE transmembrane domains required for membrane fusion?

FEBS Letters

Volumn 585, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1021-1024

  Langer, Marcella ^a,b   Langosch, Dieter ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science   (Germany)

Author keywords

Lipid flip; Membrane fusion; SNAREs; Transmembrane domain

Indexed keywords

SNARE PROTEIN; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CATALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE MUTATION; LIPID TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHOLESTEROL; LIPIDS; MEMBRANE FUSION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEPTIDOMIMETICS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SYNAPSES; SYNTAXIN 1; VESICLE-ASSOCIATED MEMBRANE PROTEIN 2;

EID: 79953247372     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2011.02.033     Document Type: Article

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