Membrane fusion is one of the essential events involved in many biological cellular
processes (Poste and Allison, 1973; Rasmussen, 1970). In spite of extensive research on …

Fusion of biological membranes can be stimulated by a variety of agents, including divalent
cations, low pH, lipid-soluble fusogens, electrical fields or protein factors (Evered & Whelan …

Membrane fusion is a ubiquitous event in cell biology. In fact, every bio logical membrane
has the potential to fuse, but this potentiality may be revealed more in one membrane than …

Fusion is an exotic phenomenon, attractive to study, poorly understood (cf. this volume). This
chapter will focus on measurements of single fusion events in two systems with similar …

Department of Biophysical Sciences State University of New York at Buffalo Buffalo, New
York USA Membrane fusion is an essential event in many cellular processes, such as …

Investigations were carried out on the effect of plasma membrane lipid modifications on the
fusogenic capacity of control and ras-transformed fibroblasts. The plasma membrane lipid …

The biophysical investigator interested in membrane fusion has distilled the complexities of
the biological system to the simpler event of fusion between lipid vesicles (liposomes). This …

The central importance of membranes in the organization of the cell has stimulated an
enormous research effort to identify the molecular basis of their structural and functional …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the role of lipids in membrane fusion. Membrane
fusion is of fundamental biological importance. At the subcellular level, it occurs in …

Biological membranes contain the lipid bilayer as their fundamental structural element. This
stable structure is formed from an assembly of amphipathic membrane lipids. The assembly …