Fusion processes in small (sonicated) unilamellar vesicle (SUV) systems composed of 80
mol% unsaturated phosphatidylethanolamine and 20 mol% of phosphatidylserine …

Critical to biological processes such as membrane fusion and secretion, ion-lipid
interactions at the membrane-water interface still raise many unanswered questions. Using …

Ca2+ has a central role in various cellular phenomena involving membrane fusion1–3.
However, little is known about the mechanisms involved. Model membrane systems such as …

It was previously shown (Cohen, FS, J. Zimmerberg, and A. Finkelstein, 1980, J. Gen.
Physiol., 75: 251-270) that multilamellar phospholipid vesicles can fuse with decane …

Disaccharides such as sucrose and trehalose play an important role in stabilizing cellular
structures during dehydration. In fact, most organisms that are able to survive desiccation …

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 …

1. The transbilayer distribution of the phospholipids in sonicated egg phosphatidylcholine-
phosphatidic acid vesicles and the interaction of Ca2+ with these vesicles was studied by …

The relative abilities of a number of naturally occurring carbohydrates to inhibit dehydration-
induced fusion between palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine: phosphatidylserine (85: 15) …

The possibility of chemically induced phase separation in lipid lamellae containing charged
lipids is demonstrated. In mixed membranes of synthetic dipalmitoyllecithin (DPL) and …

Revised Manuscript Received March 12, 1986 abstract: The initial kinetics of fusion and
leakage of liposomescomposed of N-methylated dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DOPE …