Publication Date:
2006-08-05
Description:
Assembly of the soluble N-ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptors (SNAREs) syntaxin 1, SNAP-25, and synaptobrevin 2 is thought to be the driving force for the exocytosis of synaptic vesicles. However, whereas exocytosis is triggered at a millisecond time scale, the SNARE-mediated fusion of liposomes requires hours for completion, which challenges the idea of a key role for SNAREs in the final steps of exocytosis. We found that liposome fusion was dramatically accelerated when a stabilized syntaxin/SNAP-25 acceptor complex was used. Thus, SNAREs do have the capacity to execute fusion at a speed required for neuronal secretion, demonstrating that the maintenance of acceptor complexes is a critical step in biological fusion reactions.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Pobbati, Ajaybabu V -- Stein, Alexander -- Fasshauer, Dirk -- P01 GM072694/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Aug 4;313(5787):673-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Neurobiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Am Fassberg 11, 37077 Gottingen, Germany.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16888141" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Amino Acid Sequence
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Animals
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Binding Sites
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Circular Dichroism
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Dimerization
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Exocytosis
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Liposomes/*chemistry
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*Membrane Fusion
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Peptide Fragments/chemistry/metabolism
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Protein Binding
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Protein Folding
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Protein Structure, Secondary
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Qa-SNARE Proteins/chemistry/*metabolism
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R-SNARE Proteins/chemistry/metabolism
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Rats
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Synaptosomal-Associated Protein 25/chemistry/*metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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