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 …

Membrane fusion is an essential process of biological cell function and is presumably
mediated by specific membrane proteins. Nevertheless, the final step is the rearrangement …

Membrane fusion is vital for the functioning of many cells. However, membranes show
virtually no tendency to fuse randomly. Highly specific factors, most likely membrane-bound …

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 …

We demonstrate that there are two experimentally distinguishable steps in the fusion of
phospholipid vesicles with planar bilayer membranes. In the first step, the vesicles form a …

Exocytosis is considered as four separate steps: adhesion, fusion/pore formation, pore
widening, and content discharge. Experiments on both synthetic and natural membranes are …

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 …

Membrane fusion is an ubiquitous event in cell biology. Some of the important biological
phenomena in which membrane fusion is involved are:(i) fusion of the. sperm and the egg …

For the act of membrane fusion, there are two competing, mutually exclusive molecular
models that differ in the structure of the initial pore, the pathway for ionic continuity between …

Membrane fusion is an essential molecular event involved in many cellular processes, such
as exocytosis, endocytosis, intra-cellular vesicle transport, fertilization, viral infection, etc. 1) …