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Nature Cell Biology 1, E3 - E4 (1999)
doi:10.1038/8950
Peeping at the vesicle kiss
Riccardo Fesce1 & Jacopo Meldolesi1
- Riccardo Fesce and Jacopo Meldolesi are in the DIBIT, Department of Neurosciences, San Raffaele Institute, Milano 20132, Italy, and the CNR Centre of Cytopharmacology and the Department of Pharmacology and Bruno Ceccarelli Centre, University of Milano, Milano 20129, Italy.
Correspondence to: Jacopo Meldolesi1 e-mail: j.meldolesi@hsr.it
Abstract
Kiss-and-run fusion, a quick way of coupling exocytotic vesicle fusion to vesicle recycling by endocytosis, can allow full discharge of secretory-vesicle contents, such as neurotransmitters, and is more common than classical endocytosis at high calcium concentrations.
