… often overlapping properties are important for membrane fusion?—Here we … roles that
cholesterol plays in SNARE-mediated and viral envelope glycoprotein-mediated membrane fusion…

… revealed that cholesterol depletion impaired vesicle docking … cholesterol is able to directly
trigger vesicle fusion, albeit with less potency and slower kinetics as compared to membrane …

… using photoactivatable cholesterol and cholesterol extraction… , direct cholesterol binding by
a virus membrane fusion protein. … the cholesterol-binding activities of the SFV and DV fusion …

… triggered fusion step of exocytosis. Cholesterol is a major component of vesicle membranes
… selective removal from membranes, selective sequestering within membranes, or enzymatic …

… Our results clearly elucidate that cholesterol alters the membrane physical properties in
favor of membrane fusion and interaction pattern of the fusion peptide with the membrane in a …

… of membrane fusion are not well understood. Membrane fusion, which has important
functions in a wide range of cellular activities, has considerable significance in cell biology. The …

… Notably, we also identify the importance of membrane cholesterol in early and late steps …
the role of cholesterol in NiV membrane fusion, we first assessed how lowering cholesterol …

… In addition to transfer of cholesterol, NPC2 induced membrane fusion, although less than …
on cholesterol transfer mediated by NPC2 were similar to their effect on membrane fusion …

… of cholesterol (Chol) on SNARE-mediated membrane fusion, we incorporated cholesterol into
our … Although ergosterol is a naturally occurring, predominant sterol in yeast membranes ( …

… Recently, we introduced an artificial membrane fusion machinery consisting of DNA that
hybridizes in a zipperlike fashion and is membrane-anchored via cholesterol (CH), (20) see …