Membrane hemifusion: Crossing a chasm in two leaps
Article Abstract:
The fusion reactions mediated by viral and intracellular protein machineries as well as the fusion of protein-free bilayers depend on membrane lipid composition and involve similar hemifusion intermediates. These findings demonstrate that the biological fusion pathway is based on shared properties of membrane lipids rather than on specific features of the proteins involved.
Publication Name: Cell
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0092-8674
Year: 2005
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Osteoblasts clock in for their day job
Article Abstract:
A demonstration presented reveals that clock genes control the proliferation of osteoblasts, the cells that promote growth of bone. Findings indicate that the homeostatic regulation of bone mass is subject to circadian control.
Publication Name: Cell
Subject: Biological sciences
ISSN: 0092-8674
Year: 2005
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Inheritance of mitochondrial DNA and plasmids in the acomycetous fungus, Epichloe typhina. Mitochondrial DNA length variation and heteroplasmy in populations of white sturgeon (Acipenser transmontanus)
- Abstracts: Genes without frontiers?. Cycling selection for litter size in arctic foxes. Is group selection necessary to explain social adaptations in microorganisms?
- Abstracts: Molecular interactions between bacterial symbionts and their hosts. Twenty years of the Alzheimer's disease amyloid hypothesis: A genetic perspective
- Abstracts: New roads lead to Rubisco in Archaebacteria. Many roads to resistance: How invertebrates adapt to Bt toxins
- Abstracts: Coronin proteins as multifunctional regulators of the cytoskeleton and membrane trafficking. part 2 The bacterial cytoskeleton