Exposing the Elusive Exocyst Structure

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2018, Pages 714-725

  Lepore, Dante M ^a   Martínez Núñez, Leonora ^a   Munson, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

exocyst; exocytosis; membrane fusion; membrane trafficking; Rab GTPase; Rho GTPase; SNARE; tethering complex

Indexed keywords

EXOCYST; SNARE PROTEIN;

BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CELL DIVISION; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EXOCYTOSIS; FLUORESCENCE MICROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; ANIMAL; EXOSOME; MEMBRANE FUSION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; EXOCYTOSIS; EXOSOMES; HUMANS; MEMBRANE FUSION; SNARE PROTEINS;

EID: 85050343085     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: 13624326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2018.06.012     Document Type: Review

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