Observación de una estructura intermedia de fusión de membrana de una estructura intermedia de fusión de membrana

Lin Yang1, Huey W Huang

  • 1National Synchrotron Light Source, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973, USA.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|September 14, 2002
PubMed
Resumen

Los investigadores observaron una estructura fosfolípida que se asemeja al intermediario del tallo, crucial para la fusión de la membrana. Este hallazgo apoya la hipótesis del tallo y permite la medición experimental de parámetros clave de fusión.

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