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Nature Structural Biology  9, 78 - 80 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nsb0202-78

Irreversible assembly of membrane fusion machines

Doug Barrick1 & Frederick M. Hughson2

1  Doug Barrick is in the Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.

2  Frederick M. Hughson is in the Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 USA.

Correspondence should be addressed to Doug Barrick barrick@jhu.edu or Frederick M. Hughson hughson@princeton.edu
A large kinetic barrier prevents spontaneous disassembly of SNARE complexes, complicating thermodynamic measurements and resulting in hysteresis. Nonetheless, this kinetic barrier is probably crucial for SNARE function.

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