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Nature Cell Biology 7, 103 - 104 (2005)
doi:10.1038/ncb0205-103

Expanding dynamin: from fission to fusion

Karolina Peplowska1 & Christian Ungermann1

  1. Karolina Peplowska and Christian Ungermann are at Biochemie-Zentrum der Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 328, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. e-mail: cu2@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de


How cells maintain the balance between membrane fission and fusion is not known. Recent results show that Vps1p, a yeast dynamin-like protein, is involved in both processes at the vacuole, indicating that these two antagonistic reactions might be connected after all.

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