Coiled Coils in Both Intracellular Vesicle and Viral Membrane Fusion
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Most recently, X-ray crystallography of a soluble synaptic fusion complex formed between two helical segments of SNAP-25 and the C-terminal regions of synaptoJohn J. Skehel* and Don C. Wiley†‡ *National Institute for Medical Research The Ridgeway Mill Hill brevin and syntaxin, expressed without their membrane London, NW7 1AA, England United Kingdom †Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology Howard Hughes Medical Institute Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 ‡Laboratory of Molecular Medicine Department of Medicine Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Children’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Cell
دوره 95 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1998