Two gigs of Munc18 in membrane fusion

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

Volumn 110, Issue 35, 2013, Pages 14116-14117

  Shin, Yeon Kyun ^a,b  

^a Korea Institute of Science and Technology   (South Korea)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUNC18 PROTEIN; PROTEIN SM; SNARE PROTEIN; SYNAPTOBREVIN 2; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 23; SYNTAXIN 1A; SYNTAXIN 4;

IN VITRO STUDY; MEMBRANE FUSION; MUTANT; NEUROTRANSMITTER RELEASE; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; SYNAPSE VESICLE; YEAST;

MUNC18 PROTEINS;

EID: 84883362048     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1313749110     Document Type: Note

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