A sensitive, quantitative assay has been developed which measures the extent of liposome
fusion by monitoring fluorescence resonance energy transfer between two lipid analogs …

Dick Hoekstra** abstract: The relationship between lipid phase separation and fusion of
small unilamellar phosphatidylserine-containing vesicles was investigated. The kinetics of …

We have investigated the contribution of various phospholipids to membrane fusion induced
by divalent cations. Fusion was followed by means of a new fluorescence assay monitoring …

A sensitive method which utilizes fluorescence energy transfer to assay Ca 2+-or Mg 2+-
mediated fusion of phospholipid vesicles is reported. More than 85% quenching results …

Fusion between vesicles prepared from individual or mixed phospholipid species was
demonstrated by ultracentrifugation and gel-filtration techniques, electron microscopy and …

Divalent cation-induced fusion of large unilamellar vesides (approx. 0.1 μm diameter) made
of phosphatidylserine (PS) or phosphatidylglycerol (PG) has been studied. Intermixing of …

Revised Manuscript Received November 29, 1984 abstract: Liposomes composed of oleic
acid and phosphatidylethanolamine (3: 7 mole ratio) aggregate, become destabilized, and …

This chapter examines assays for membrane fusion: two assays for the intermixing of
aqueous contents of phospholipid vesicles, and one for the mixing of membrane …

The relative kinetics of intermixing and release of liposome aqueous contents during Ca 2+-
induced membrane fusion has been investigated. Fusion was monitored by the Tb …

Douglas K. Struck,** Dick Hoekstra, and Richard E. Pagano* abstract: An assay for vesicle-
vesicle fusion involving resonance energy transfer between 7V-(7-nitro-2, l, 3-benz …