Soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptors (SNAREs) are a
family of small conserved eukaryotic proteins that mediate membrane fusion between …

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 …

Membrane fusion can occur between cells, between different intracellular compartments,
between intracellular compartments and the plasma membrane and between lipid-bound …

Neurotransmitter release at synapses involves a highly specialized form of membrane fusion
that is triggered by Ca2+ ions and is optimized for speed. These observations were …

Neurotransmission relies on synaptic vesicles fusing with the membrane of nerve cells to
release their neurotransmitter content into the synaptic cleft, a process requiring the …

Summary Sec1/Munc18 (SM) proteins are required for every step of intracellular membrane
fusion, but their molecular mechanism of action has been unclear. In this work, we …

Vesicular secretion of neurotransmitter is essential for neuronal communication. Kiss-and-
run is a mode of membrane fusion and retrieval without the full collapse of the vesicle into …

Migrasomes, enriched with signaling molecules such as chemokines, cytokines and
angiogenic factors, play a pivotal role in the spatially defined delivery of these molecules …

The variability of the postsynaptic response following a single action potential arises from
two sources: the neurotransmitter release is probabilistic, and the postsynaptic response to …

Membrane fusion occurs when SNAREpins fold up between lipid bilayers. How much
energy is generated during SNAREpin folding and how this energy is coupled to the fusion …