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Nature 407, 144-146 (14 September 2000) | doi:10.1038/35025176

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Cell biology: The specifics of membrane fusion

Suzie J. Scales1, Jason B. Bock1 & Richard H. Scheller1

The ability to maintain a diverse set of intracellular compartments, with distinct complements of proteins, is a defining feature of eukaryotic cells. Substances can be transported from one membrane-encased compartment to another, but the compartments maintain their unique identities.

  1. Suzie J. Scales, Jason B. Bock and Richard H. Scheller are at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305-5345, USA.

Correspondence to: Suzie J. Scales1 e-mail: Email: sjscales@cmgm.stanford.edu