Reconstituting intracellular vesicle fusion reactions: The essential role of macromolecular crowding

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 137, Issue 40, 2015, Pages 12873-12883

  Yu, Haijia ^a   Rathore, Shailendra S ^a,b   Shen, Chong ^a   Liu, Yinghui ^a   Ouyang, Yan ^a   Stowell, Michael H ^a   Shen, Jingshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAYS; CELL MEMBRANES; MACHINERY; MACROMOLECULES; PROTEINS; THERMONUCLEAR REACTIONS;

BIOCHEMICAL ASSAY; CELLULAR ENVIRONMENT; INTEGRAL ELEMENT; INTRACELLULAR VESICLES; MACROMOLECULAR CROWDING; MEMBRANE FUSION; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; THERMODYNAMIC BEHAVIORS;

FUSION REACTIONS;

MUNC18 PROTEIN; PROTEIN SM; PROTEOLIPOSOME; SNARE PROTEIN; SYNAPTOBREVIN 2; SYNAPTOSOMAL ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 25; SYNTAXIN 1; MACROMOLECULE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CELL VACUOLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXOCYTOSIS; INTRACELLULAR VESICLE FUSION; LIPOSOME MEMBRANE; MACROMOLECULAR CROWDING; MEMBRANE FUSION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; SYNAPSE VESICLE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; MACROMOLECULE; THERMODYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MICE; MUNC18 PROTEINS; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84944350801     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b08306     Document Type: Article

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