Molecular machinery mediating vesicle budding, docking and fusion
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1420-9071
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Vesicle budding and fusion ; ARF ; coat proteins ; cargo receptor ; NSF ; SNAP ; SNARE
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Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
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Biology
Medicine
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Abstract A general machinery buds and fuses transport vesicles which connect intracellular compartments with each other and allow communication with the extracellular environment. Cytoplasmic coat proteins deform membranes to bud vesicles and interact directly or indirectly with cargo molecules. Compartment-specific SNAREs (SNAP receptors) on vesicles and target membranes dock vesicles and provide a scaffolding for the general fusion machinery to initiate lipid bilayer fusion.
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Electronic Resource
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