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Insights into the mechanisms of membrane curvature and vesicle scission by the small GTPase Sar1 in the early secretory pathway.
Journal of molecular biology - 11 Nov 2014
Hariri Hanaa, Bhattacharya Nilakshee, Johnson Kerri, Noble Alex J, Stagg Scott M
Abstract excerpt
The small GTPase protein Sar1 is known to be involved in both the initiation of COPII-coated vesicle formation and scission of the nascent vesicle from the endoplasmic reticulum. The molecular details for the mechanism of membrane remodeling by Sar1 remain unresolved. Here, we show that Sar1 transforms synthetic liposomes into structures of different morphologies including tubules and detached vesicles. We...
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