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SUBMITTER: Brukman NG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6504885 | biostudies-other | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
The Journal of cell biology 20190401 5
Cell-cell fusion remains the least understood type of membrane fusion process. However, the last few years have brought about major advances in understanding fusion between gametes, myoblasts, macrophages, trophoblasts, epithelial, cancer, and other cells in normal development and in diseases. While different cell fusion processes appear to proceed via similar membrane rearrangements, proteins that have been identified as necessary and sufficient for cell fusion (fusogens) use diverse mechanisms ...[more]