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Physico-Chemical Factors Underlying Membrane Adhesion and Fusion

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Membrane fusion is an essential event in many cellular processes, such as exocytosis, endocytosis, cell membrane assembly, fertilization, and virus infection(1–6). In spite of extensive studies of membrane fusion, its basic molecular mechanism is not well understood in biological systems, probably because there may be several molecular pathways possible for fusion of biological membranes(7,8). However, two distinctly different pathways have been described by which two cell membranes fuse(3,4,9,10) These involve mechanisms active through lipid membrane fusion, and those active through a protein which interacts directly with two membranes.

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Ohki, S. (1991). Physico-Chemical Factors Underlying Membrane Adhesion and Fusion. In: Ohki, S. (eds) Cell and Model Membrane Interactions. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3854-7_16

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