CORVET and HOPS tethering complexes - coordinators of endosome and lysosome fusion

Journal of Cell Science

Volumn 126, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1307-1316

  Balderhaar, Henning J kleine ^a   Ungermann, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

Author keywords

CORVET; Endosome; HOPS; Lysosome; Membrane fusion; Rab5; Rab7; Tethering

Indexed keywords

CORVET PROTEIN; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HOPS PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RAB PROTEIN; RAB5 PROTEIN; RAB7 PROTEIN; SNARE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BINDING SITE; BIOGENESIS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CELL FUSION; CELL MATURATION; CELL VACUOLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DROSOPHILA; ENDOCYTOSIS; ENDOSOME; FUNGAL STRAIN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; LYSOSOME; MAMMAL CELL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHAGOCYTOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; YEAST CELL;

CORVET; ENDOSOME; HOPS; LYSOSOME; MEMBRANE FUSION; RAB5; RAB7; TETHERING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL MEMBRANE; ENDOSOMES; HUMANS; LYSOSOMES; MEMBRANE FUSION; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; PROTEIN BINDING; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; RAB5 GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; SNARE PROTEINS; YEASTS;

EID: 84877886601     PISSN: 00219533     EISSN: 14779137     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jcs.107805     Document Type: Note

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