Starting from fertilization, through tissue growth, hormone secretion, synaptic transmission,
and sometimes morbid events of carcinogenesis and viral infections, membrane fusion …

Membrane fusion is critical to biological processes such as viral infection, endocrine
hormone secretion, and neurotransmission, yet the precise mechanistic details of the fusion …

Membrane fusion proceeds via formation of intermediate nonbilayer structures. The stalk
model of fusion intermediate is commonly recognized to account for the major …

Membrane fusion has an overarching influence on living organisms. The fusion of sperm
and egg membranes initiates the life of a sexually reproducing organism. Intracellular …

Biological membranes are examples of'smart'materials whose properties and behaviour
emerge from the propagation across many scales of the molecular characteristics of their …

Fusion of membranes is involved in basic biological processes but its mechanism remains
poorly understood. That different proteins trigger different fusion events obscures the …

Recently, it has become clear that the influenza virus fusion protein, hemagglutinin (HA),
produces membrane destabilization and fusion by a multistep process, which involves the …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the recent contribution of computer simulation
approaches to unravel the molecular details of membrane fusion. Over the past decade …

Fusion of biological membranes is governed by physical principles but it is unclear whether
the transition states are primarily determined by lipid physics or by protein–lipid interactions …

Diverse membrane fusion reactions in biology involve close contact between two lipid
bilayers, followed by the local distortion of the individual bilayers and reformation into a …