A fascinating problem in modern cell biology — how membranes fuse — may be close to a solution. A flurry of recent papers report structural results on proteins that are essential for membrane ...

Each time a terminal receives an electrical impulse from the cell soma, within one to a few milliseconds several vesicles fuse to presynaptic membrane zones and release a large amount of glutamate ...

Recent UTSW research shows that by bundling F-actin, dynamin increases the mechanical strength of the actin cytoskeleton and enables the formation of invasive membrane protrusions during cell-cell ...

We propose that a partial answer to the above questions lies within a novel process that we discovered and named – outer membrane exchange (OME). Here, upon physical contact with a neighboring cell ...

Membrane-bound organelles were the textbook standard of how scientists thought cells were organized until ... imagine a lava ...

Membrane-bound organelles were the textbook standard of how scientists thought cells were organized until ... imagine a lava lamp as the blobs of wax inside fuse together, break apart and fuse ...