Role of specific lipids and annexins in calcium-dependent membrane fusion.
Role of specific lipids and annexins in calcium-dependent membrane fusion.
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特定脂质和膜联蛋白在钙依赖性膜融合中的作用。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1991.tb36497.x
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发表时间:
1991
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Papaphadjopoulos,D
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作者:
Meers,P;Hong,KL;Papaphadjopoulos,D
The concentration of intracellular Ca2+ is highly regulated during cellular secretion and other membrane fusion events. Therefore, it is thought that Ca2+ may play some role, direct or indirect, in these processes. One early indication of a direct role in membrane fusion was the observation that Ca2+ could induce aggregation and leakage of contents from model membrane vesicles composed of the most abundant naturally occurring acidic phospholipid, phosphatidylserine (PS).'Later these phenomena were shown to be associated with fusion of the vesicles. 2 Subsequently, the ability to produce large unilamellar vesicles (LUV)>'and the development of fluorescent fusion assays576 has allowed detailed studies of the factors that mediate Ca2+-dependent membrane fusion, particularly fusion of PS vesicle^.^ A simple mass action model for the kinetics of membrane fusion that could describe or predict the results of fusion assays under certain conditions resulted from such studies.','A prominent feature of this model was that the overall fusion process was treated as a two-step reaction involving first aggregation of vesicles followed by actual fusion. Using this rational framework, the factors explicitly involved at each step can be discussed separately.