Botulinum neurotoxins: biology, pharmacology, and toxicology

M Pirazzini, O Rossetto, R Eleopra, C Montecucco… - Pharmacological …, 2017 - Elsevier
The study of botulinum neurotoxins (BoNT) is rapidly progressing in many aspects. Novel
BoNTs are being discovered owing to next generation sequencing, but their biologic and …

Membrane repair: mechanisms and pathophysiology

ST Cooper, PL McNeil - Physiological reviews, 2015 - journals.physiology.org
Eukaryotic cells have been confronted throughout their evolution with potentially lethal
plasma membrane injuries, including those caused by osmotic stress, by infection from …

Identifying SNARE proteins using an alignment-free method based on multiscan convolutional neural network and PSSM profiles

QH Kha, QT Ho, NQK Le - Journal of Chemical Information and …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Background: SNARE proteins play a vital role in membrane fusion and cellular physiology
and pathological processes. Many potential therapeutics for mental diseases or even cancer …

Membrane fusion: grappling with SNARE and SM proteins

TC Südhof, JE Rothman - Science, 2009 - science.org
The two universally required components of the intracellular membrane fusion machinery,
SNARE and SM (Sec1/Munc18-like) proteins, play complementary roles in fusion. Vesicular …

SNAP receptors implicated in vesicle targeting and fusion

T Söllner, SW Whiteheart, M Brunner… - Nature, 1993 - nature.com
The N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion protein (NSF) and the soluble NSF attachment
proteins (SNAPs) appear to be essential components of the intracellular membrane fusion …

Crystal structure of a SNARE complex involved in synaptic exocytosis at 2.4 Å resolution

RB Sutton, D Fasshauer, R Jahn, AT Brunger - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
The evolutionarily conserved SNARE proteins and their complexes are involved in the
fusion of vesicles with their target membranes; however, the overall organization and …

[HTML][HTML] SNAREpins: minimal machinery for membrane fusion

T Weber, BV Zemelman, JA McNew, B Westermann… - Cell, 1998 - cell.com
Recombinant v-and t-SNARE proteins reconstituted into separate lipid bilayer vesicles
assemble into SNAREpins—SNARE complexes linking two membranes. This leads to …

A protein assembly-disassembly pathway in vitro that may correspond to sequential steps of synaptic vesicle docking, activation, and fusion

T Söllner, MK Bennett, SW Whiteheart, RH Scheller… - Cell, 1993 - cell.com
The SNARE hypothesis holds that a transport vesicle chooses its target for fusion when a
soluble NSF attachment protein (SNAP) receptor on the vesicle (V-SNARE) pairs with its …

Botulinum neurotoxin A selectively cleaves the synaptic protein SNAP-25

J Blasi, ER Chapman, E Link, T Binz, S Yamasaki… - Nature, 1993 - nature.com
NEUROTRANSMITTER release is potently blocked by a group of structurally related toxin
proteins produced by Clostridium botulinum 1. Botulinum neurotoxin type B (BoNT/B) and …

SNARE-mediated membrane fusion

YA Chen, RH Scheller - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2001 - nature.com
SNARE proteins have been proposed to mediate all intracellular membrane fusion events.
There are over 30 SNARE family members in mammalian cells and each is found in a …