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SUBMITTER: Kunding AH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3297791 | biostudies-other | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Kunding Andreas H AH Mortensen Michael W MW Christensen Sune M SM Bhatia Vikram K VK Makarov Ivan I Metzler Ralf R Stamou Dimitrios D
Biophysical journal 20111201 11
The polymorphism of eukaryotic cellular membranes is a tightly regulated and well-conserved phenotype. Recent data have revealed important regulatory roles of membrane curvature on the spatio-temporal localization of proteins and in membrane fusion. Here we quantified the influence of membrane curvature on the efficiency of intermembrane docking reactions. Using fluorescence microscopy, we monitored the docking of single vesicle-vesicle pairs of different diameter (30-200 nm) and therefore curva ...[more]