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Nature Cell Biology 1, E8 - E9 (1999)
doi:10.1038/8957
New twists for dynamin
Regis B. Kelly1
- Regis B. Kelly is in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Hormone Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-0534, USA.
Correspondence to: Regis B. Kelly1 e-mail: rkelly@biochem.ucsf.edu
Abstract
New in vitro and mutagenesis studies of dynamin, a protein involved in the process of vesicle internalization from the plasma membrane, suggest either a "poppase" or a regulatory mechanism for dynamin action, and illustrate the importance of dynamin-binding partners.
