"It's the first time a role for membrane fusion has been described for this complex and it's a breakthrough in how we think about the way the exocyst complex works," said Mary Munson, Ph.D ...

Lithium isotopes, lithium-6, and lithium-7, can both be used for breed tritium, but the reaction with lithium-6 is much more ...

Membrane fusion is important during infection because when some people are infected with non-fusing chlamydia, they tend to have much milder cases. "It looks like fusion is boosting the potency of ...

A flurry of recent papers report structural results on proteins that are essential for membrane fusion during exocytosis, providing a starting point from which a mechanistic understanding of ...

Lithium-6 is essential for producing nuclear fusion fuel, but isolating it from the much more common isotope, lithium-7, usually requires liquid mercury, which is extremely toxic. Now, researchers ...

Researchers have identified many gene products that control mitochondrial fusion and division. Three central players are (1) mitofusins (outer mitochondrial membrane fusion), (2) OPA1/Mgm1 (inner ...

OMA1 is a mitochondrial inner membrane protease that inhibits fusion by cleaving the fusion GTPase OPA1. While individually non-essential under normal conditions, the combined loss of Parkin and ...