Membrane Fusion Through Point Defects in Bilayers
- 22 May 1981
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 212 (4497), 921-923
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.7233185
Abstract
Fusion between bilayers of mixed egg phosphatidylcholine and soybean phosphatidylethanolamine was induced by freezing and thawing. Contact points between bilayers were observed by freeze fracture electron microscopy, and isotropic molecular motional averaging was detected by phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance under fusion conditions. A molecular model of point defect structure is proposed as an intermediate stage of fusion.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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