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Departments of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, the Center for Basic Neuroscience and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75235, USA.
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Department of Molecular Genetics, the Center for Basic Neuroscience and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas 75235, USA.
A fascinating problem in modern cell biology — how membranes fuse
— may be close to a solution. A flurry of recent papers report structural
results on proteins that are essential for membrane fusion during exocytosis,
providing a starting point from which a mechanistic understanding of membrane
fusion can be launched.
