… often overlapping properties are important for membrane fusion?—Here we … roles that
cholesterol plays in SNARE-mediated and viral envelope glycoprotein-mediated membrane fusion…

… revealed that cholesterol depletion impaired vesicle docking … cholesterol is able to directly
trigger vesicle fusion, albeit with less potency and slower kinetics as compared to membrane …

… triggered fusion step of exocytosis. Cholesterol is a major component of vesicle membranes
… selective removal from membranes, selective sequestering within membranes, or enzymatic …

… Notably, we also identify the importance of membrane cholesterol in early and late steps …
the role of cholesterol in NiV membrane fusion, we first assessed how lowering cholesterol …

… using photoactivatable cholesterol and cholesterol extraction… , direct cholesterol binding by
a virus membrane fusion protein. … the cholesterol-binding activities of the SFV and DV fusion …

… of cholesterol (Chol) on SNARE-mediated membrane fusion, we incorporated cholesterol into
our … Although ergosterol is a naturally occurring, predominant sterol in yeast membranes ( …

… vesicle fusion at the active zone 22 . Neuronal SNARE proteins were initially discovered by
their abundance in synaptic vesicle … their direct role in membrane fusion. SNAREs associate …

… may be an essential part in the actual membrane fusion process in such a system. In order
… membrane aggregation and fusion events, we have produced a simple model membrane …

… In addition to transfer of cholesterol, NPC2 induced membrane fusion, although less than …
on cholesterol transfer mediated by NPC2 were similar to their effect on membrane fusion …

… Our results clearly elucidate that cholesterol alters the membrane physical properties in
favor of membrane fusion and interaction pattern of the fusion peptide with the membrane in a …