Science news articles about 'membrane fusion'

... Xue use that analogy to describe the action of synaptotagmin-1, which acts to catalyze the fusion of the membranes of tiny neurotransmitter-filled bubbles called vesicles with the wall membrane of a ...

... have used that analogy to describe the action of synaptotagmin-1, which acts to catalyze the fusion of the membranes of tiny neurotransmitter-filled bubbles called vesicles with the wall membrane of ...

... autophagosome maturation by association with the C Vps complex, a cellular machinery that facilitates membrane fusion. In addition to identifying a novel mechanism of the UVRAG tumor suppressor in ...

... the neck of the HA protein, an interaction that blocks the shape change required for membrane fusion and virus entry into the cell. When they surveyed more than 6,000 available HA genetic sequences ...

... has spent the past 15 years studying SNARE proteins, a specialized family of proteins that carries out membrane fusion. It's a vital process that happens thousands of times a second in every cell of ...

... expressed by the bacteria themselves were capable to interact with the eukaryotic SNAREs and alter membrane fusion to their advantage. The Chlamydia bacteria expressed a SNARE-like protein called IncA ...