Publisher Summary The study of lipid polymorphism and membrane fusion in liposomal
systems has provided a useful approach to understanding the complex process of fusion in …

For membrane fusion to occur, opposed lipid bilayers initially establish a fusion pore, often
followed by complete mixing of the fusing membranes. Contemporary views suggest that …

The importance of membrane fusion with respect to a variety of cellular functions has long
been appreciated. Interest in the mechanism by which membranes fuse, however, has …

Main emphasis in studies on the mechanisms of fusion of cellular membranes has been in
the roles of various proteins, with far less interest in the properties of lipids. Yet, on a …

Membrane fusion is an extremely important phenomenon in biology. During this process two
membranes, which can be two different membranes or two sites of one membrane, come in …

Membrane fusion is one of the essential events involved in many biological cellular
processes such as exocytosis, endocytösis, membrane recycling, cell membrane assembly …

The functioning of all eukaryotic cells is critically dependent on a variety of membrane fusion
phenomena. For example, membrane fusion plays a key role not only in such cell-cell fusion …

Membrane fusion is an ubiquitous event in cell biology. One can distinguish two types of
fusion:(i) outsideioutside fusion, for example endocytosis, and (ii) insidehide fusion, for …

Disparate biological fusion reactions and fusion of purely lipid bilayers are similarly
influenced by 'non-bilayer'lipids (lipids which do not form lipid bilayers in water by …