Membrane Fusion

Theory of the Stability of Lyophobic Colloids.

1947 • 7,494 citations

Intracellular Aspects of the Process of Protein Synthesis

1975 • 3,560 citations

Inositol trisphosphate and diacylglycerol as second messengers

1984 • 3,535 citations

The Electrical Double Layer and the Theory of Electrocapillarity.

1947 • 2,993 citations

Structure of the haemagglutinin membrane glycoprotein of influenza virus at 3 Å resolution

1981 • 2,490 citations

Coated pits, coated vesicles, and receptor-mediated endocytosis

1979 • 2,073 citations

Lipid polymorphism and the functional roles of lipids in biological membranes

1979 • 1,817 citations

Turnover of Inositol Phospholipids and Signal Transduction

1984 • 1,629 citations

Nerve, Muscle and Synapse

1966 • 1,431 citations

Use of resonance energy transfer to monitor membrane fusion

1981 • 1,274 citations

The hydrophobic interaction is long range, decaying exponentially with distance

1982 • 1,096 citations

Discrete changes of cell membrane capacitance observed under conditions of enhanced secretion in bovine adrenal chromaffin cells.

1982 • 1,010 citations

Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Biomembranes

1980 • 953 citations

Structure of the influenza virus glycoprotein antigen neuraminidase at 2.9 Å resolution

1983 • 875 citations

Transport and metabolism of calcium ions in nerve

1972 • 754 citations

Changes in the conformation of influenza virus hemagglutinin at the pH optimum of virus-mediated membrane fusion.

1982 • 722 citations

Synergistic functions of protein phosphorylation and calcium mobilization in platelet activation.

1983 • 705 citations

Liposome-Cell Interaction: Transfer and Intracellular Release of a Trapped Fluorescent Marker

1977 • 702 citations

Membrane fusion proteins of enveloped animal viruses

1983 • 670 citations

Measurement of Ca2+ concentrations in living cells

1982 • 664 citations

Diacylglycerol and phorbol ester stimulate secretion without raising cytoplasmic free calcium in human platelets

1983 • 589 citations

Electric field-induced cell-to-cell fusion

1982 • 580 citations

MEMBRANE SPLITTING IN FREEZE-ETCHING

1970 • 573 citations

Measurement of forces between lecithin bilayers

1976 • 562 citations

Cochleate lipid cylinders: formation by fusion of unilamellar lipid vesicles

1975 • 540 citations

Capacitance measurements reveal stepwise fusion events in degranulating mast cells

1984 • 506 citations

Journey to the Center of the Cell: Role of the Receptosome

1981 • 500 citations

Calcium-dependence of catecholamine release from bovine adrenal medullary cells after exposure to intense electric fields

1982 • 500 citations

The ultrastructure of cell membranes and their derivatives.

1959 • 497 citations

Studies on the mechanism of membrane fusion: kinetics of calcium ion induced fusion of phosphatidylserine vesicles followed by a new assay for mixing of aqueous vesicle contents

1980 • 488 citations

Studies on the mechanism of membrane fusion: evidence for an intermembrane calcium(2+) ion-phospholipid complex, synergism with magnesium(2+) ion, and inhibition by spectrin

1979 • 470 citations

INTERACTING PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYERS: Measured Forces and Induced Structural Changes

1981 • 464 citations

Membrane Recycling by Coated Vesicles

1981 • 450 citations

STRUCTURAL MODULATIONS OF PLASMALEMMAL VESICLES

1968 • 427 citations

Surface density determination in membranes by fluorescence energy transfer

1978 • 422 citations

Adsorption of divalent cations to bilayer membranes containing phosphatidylserine.

1981 • 418 citations

INTERACTIONS OF LIPOSOMES WITH MAMMALIAN CELLS

1978 • 408 citations

Identification and purification of an adrenal medullary protein (synexin) that causes calcium-dependent aggregation of isolated chromaffin granules.

1978 • 396 citations

The isolation of intact cortical granules from sea urchin eggs: Calcium ions trigger granule discharge

1975 • 350 citations

pH-dependent fusion between the Semliki Forest virus membrane and liposomes.

1980 • 344 citations

Effects of fusogenic agent on membrane structure of erythrocyte ghosts and the mechanism of membrane fusion

1978 • 299 citations

Inhibition of VSV binding and infectivity by phosphatidylserine: Is phosphatidylserine a VSV-binding site?

1983 • 297 citations

Molecular events during membrane fusion. A study of exocytosis in rat peritoneal mast cells.

1977 • 289 citations

Clathrin-coated vesicles contain an ATP-dependent proton pump.

1983 • 284 citations

Membrane fusion activity of influenza virus.

1982 • 282 citations

The fusion of erythrocytes by fatty acids, esters, retinol and α-tocopherol

1973 • 282 citations

cis-Unsaturated fatty acids induce the fusion of chromaffin granules aggregated by synexin.

1981 • 272 citations

The phorbol ester TPA increases the affinity of exocytosis for calcium in ‘leaky’ adrenal medullary cells

1983 • 269 citations

Specific gangliosides function as host cell receptors for Sendai virus.

1981 • 262 citations

Studies on the mechanism of membrane fusion. Role of head-group composition in calcium- and magnesium-induced fusion of mixed phospholipid vesicles

1981 • 257 citations

Stimulation of phospholipid methylation, Ca2+ influx, and histamine release by bridging of IgE receptors on rat mast cells.

1980 • 256 citations

An ATP-driven proton pump in clathrin-coated vesicles.

1983 • 253 citations

Membrane Fusion Through Point Defects in Bilayers

1981 • 253 citations

Calcium control of exocytosis and endocytosis in bovine adrenal medullary cells

1981 • 250 citations

Ca2+-induced fusion of phospholipid vesicles monitored by mixing of aqueous contents

1979 • 239 citations

Fusion of phospholipid vesicles with planar phospholipid bilayer membranes. II. Incorporation of a vesicular membrane marker into the planar membrane.

1980 • 225 citations

Aggregation and fusion of phospholipid vesicles

1983 • 214 citations

Beginning of exocytosis captured by rapid-freezing of Limulus amebocytes.

1981 • 212 citations

Membrane fusion during secretion: cortical granule exocytosis in sex urchin eggs as studied by quick-freezing and freeze-fracture.

1979 • 196 citations

Lipid vesicles as carriers for introducing materials into cultured cells: influence of vesicle lipid composition on mechanism(s) of vesicle incorporation into cells.

1976 • 193 citations

Fusion of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles

1980 • 180 citations

Interaction of influenza virus hemagglutinin with target membrane lipids is a key step in virus-induced hemolysis and fusion at pH 5.2.

1981 • 173 citations

Fusion of phospholipid vesicles in association with the appearance of lipidic particles as visualized by freeze fracturing

1979 • 169 citations

Inverted micellar structures in bilayer membranes. Formation rates and half-lives

1984 • 164 citations

Mechanisms of secretion from adrenal chromaffin cells

1984 • 162 citations

Osmotic Swelling of Phospholipid Vesicles Causes Them to Fuse with a Planar Phospholipid Bilayer Membrane

1982 • 159 citations

Regulation of the transmembrane potential of isolated chromaffin granules by ATP, ATP analogs, and external pH.

1976 • 158 citations

Membrane fusion during secretion. A hypothesis based on electron microscope observation of Phytophthora Palmivora zoospores during encystment.

1977 • 157 citations

Effects of monovalent ion binding and screening on measured electrostatic forces between charged phospholipid bilayers

1982 • 156 citations

Dissociation of clathrin coats coupled to the hydrolysis of ATP: role of an uncoating ATPase.

1984 • 153 citations

Dynamic Structure of Membranes by Deuterium NMR

1984 • 149 citations

Calcium- and magnesium-induced fusion of mixed phosphatidylserine/phosphatidylcholine vesicles: Effect of ion binding

1981 • 147 citations

Control of membrane fusion by phospholid head groups I. Phosphatidate/phosphatidylinositol specificity

1981 • 144 citations

Phospholipid vesicle aggregation: effect of monovalent and divalent ions

1982 • 142 citations

Freeze-fracture morphology of biological membranes

1978 • 141 citations

Fusion of phospholipid vesicles with planar phospholipid bilayer membranes. I. Discharge of vesicular contents across the planar membrane.

1980 • 138 citations

pH-dependent fusion induced by vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein reconstituted into phospholipid vesicles.

1984 • 136 citations

Polyhistidine mediates an acid-dependent fusion of negatively charged liposomes

1984 • 135 citations

The use of aqueous space markers to determine the mechanism of interaction between phospholipid vesicles and cells

1979 • 130 citations

A Cell Line Expressing Vesicular Stomatitis Virus Glycoprotein Fuses at Low p H

1984 • 128 citations

Evidence for translation of rabbit globin mRNA after liposomemediated insertion into a human cell line

1978 • 125 citations

Micromolar Ca ²⁺ Stimulates Fusion of Lipid Vesicles with Planar Bilayers Containing a Calcium-Binding Protein

1980 • 125 citations

Studies of membrane fusion.: III. fusion of erythrocytes with polyethylene glycol

1979 • 123 citations

A fluorescence assay to monitor vesicle fusion and lysis.

1982 • 122 citations

Forces between surfaces in liquids

1982 • 116 citations

Polycation-induced fusion of negatively-charged vesicles

1982 • 115 citations

Aggregation and fusion of unilamellar vesicles by poly(ethylene glycol)

1984 • 114 citations

Fusion of coated vesicles with lysosomes: Measurement with a fluorescence assay

1983 • 113 citations

Kinetics of a Ca2+-triggered membrane aggregation reaction of phospholipid membranes

1975 • 111 citations

On the study of Sendai virus hemolysis

1976 • 111 citations

Studies on the mechanism of polyethylene glycol-mediated cell fusion using fluorescent membrane and cytoplasmic probes.

1983 • 110 citations

The rate of fusion of phospholipid vesicles and the role of bilayer curvature

1982 • 108 citations

Aggregation of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles

1982 • 105 citations

ENERGETICS OF MEMBRANE DEFORMATION AND ADHESION IN CELL AND VESICLE AGGREGATIONa

1983 • 105 citations

The Mechanism of Cell Fusion

1973 • 103 citations

Effects of divalent cations, temperature, osmotic pressure gradient, and vesicle curvature on phosphatidylserine vesicle fusion

1984 • 102 citations

Time-dependent changes in the size distribution of distearoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles

1979 • 101 citations

Depolarization-release coupling systems in neurons.

1977 • 99 citations

Interactions of divalent cations or basic proteins with phosphatidylethanolamine vesicles

1977 • 97 citations

The cromolyn binding protein constitutes the Ca2+ channel of basophils opening upon immunological stimulus.

1984 • 92 citations

HYDRODYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF EGG PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE VESICLES

1978 • 92 citations

Catecholamine Secretion by Chemically Skinned Cultured Chromaffm Cells

1983 • 92 citations

Calcium-dependent exocytosis in an in vitro secretory granule plasma membrane preparation from sea urchin eggs and the effects of some inhibitors of cytoskeletal function

1983 • 91 citations

Saturable binding sites for vesicular stomatitis virus on the surface of Vero cells

1982 • 89 citations

Early Interactions of Viruses With Cellular Membranes

1979 • 89 citations

Effects of temperature and lipid composition on the serum albumin-induced aggregation and fusion of small unilamellar vesicles

1981 • 88 citations

Fusion of phospholipid vesicles arrested by quick-freezing. The question of lipidic particles as intermediates in membrane fusion

1982 • 88 citations

Polyamines as modulators of membrane fusion: aggregation and fusion of liposomes

1983 • 88 citations

Separation of the osmotically driven fusion event from vesicle-planar membrane attachment in a model system for exocytosis.

1984 • 87 citations

Liposome--lymphocyte interaction: saturable sites for transfer and intracellular release of liposome contents.

1977 • 87 citations

Fusion of phosphatidic acid-phosphatidylcholine mixed lipid vesicles

1979 • 86 citations

Kinetics of the Opening and Closing of Individual Excitability-Inducing Material Channels in a Lipid Bilayer

1974 • 85 citations

Interrelated lipid alterations and their influence on the proliferation and fusion of cultured myogenic cells

1978 • 83 citations

Crystalline anhydrous Ca-phosphatidylserine bilayers

1977 • 83 citations

A new method for reconstitution of highly fusogenic sendai virus envelopes

1984 • 83 citations

Melittin induces fusion of unilamellar phospholipid vesicles

1983 • 82 citations

Charge clusters and the orientation of membrane proteins

1982 • 82 citations

Fluorescence studies on the mechanism of liposome-cell interactions in vitro

1980 • 80 citations

Calelectrin self-aggregates and promotes membrane aggregation in the presence of calcium.

1982 • 79 citations

Clathrin-induced pH-dependent fusion of phosphatidylcholine vesicles.

1983 • 78 citations

The biochemistry of virus-induced cell fusion. Changes in membrane integrity

1974 • 78 citations

Secretion in Mast Cells Induced by Calcium Entrapped Within Phospholipid Vesicles

1978 • 78 citations

On the forces between phospholipid bilayers

1978 • 75 citations

MEMBRANE INTERACTION AND DEFORMATION

1983 • 74 citations

The nature of lipidic particles and their roles polymorphic transitions

1983 • 74 citations

Fusion of Sendai virus with liposomes: Dependence on the viral fusion protein (F) and the lipid composition of liposomes

1983 • 73 citations

Control of intracellular calcium in presynaptic nerve terminals.

1980 • 71 citations

Entrapment of metaphase chromosomes into phospholipid vesicles (lipochromosomes): Carrier potential in gene transfer

1978 • 71 citations

The components contained in polyethylene glycol of commercial grade (PEG-6,000) as cell fusogen

1981 • 71 citations

Quantitation of surface affinities of red blood cells in dextran solutions and plasma

1982 • 71 citations

Synexin facilitates fusion of specific phospholipid membranes at divalent cation concentrations found intracellularly.

1982 • 69 citations

Intermembrane contact affects calcium binding to phospholipid vesicles.

1982 • 66 citations

Asymmetric membranes resulting from the fusion of two black lipid bilayers

1974 • 66 citations

Fusion of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine vesicle membranes induced by concanavalin A.

1975 • 63 citations

Calcium-dependent Regulation of Chromaffin Granule Movement, Membrane Contact, and Fusion during Exocytosis

1982 • 60 citations

Comparison of two liposome fusion assays monitoring the intermixing of aqueous contents and of membrane components

1983 • 60 citations

Effect of lipid vesicle (liposome) encapsulation of methotrexate on its chemotherapeutic efficacy in solid rodent tumors.

1978 • 59 citations

Melittin‐induced fusion of acidic liposomes

1983 • 58 citations

Structural changes in chromaffin granules induced by divalent cations

1974 • 54 citations

Stimulus‐Secretion Coupling in Isolated Adrenal Chromaffin Cells: Calcium Channel Activation and Possible Role of Cytoskeletal Elements

1982 • 54 citations

Alamethicin-mediated fusion of lecithin vesicles.

1975 • 54 citations

Virus-Induced Cell Fusion

1987 • 51 citations

Is purified poly(ethylene glycol) able to induce cell fusion?

1982 • 50 citations

Haemolysis by Two Alphaviruses: Semliki Forest and Sindbis Virus

1979 • 45 citations

Interaction of enveloped viruses with planar bilayer membranes: Observations on Sendai, influenza, vesicular stomatitis, and Semliki forest viruses

1983 • 42 citations

Cell interaction with model membranes probing, modification and simulation of cell surface functions

1984 • 42 citations

Reversibility of sodium-induced aggregation of sonicated phosphatidylserine vesicles.

1980 • 42 citations

Myelin basic protein-enhanced fusion of membranes

1982 • 42 citations

Clathrin-Coated Pits and Coated Vesicles: Functional and Structural Studies

2007 • 41 citations

Ultrastructural aspects of membrane fusion

1974 • 41 citations

Effect of lipid composition upon fusion of liposomes with Sendai virus membranes

1984 • 39 citations

Aggregation and calcium-induced fusion of phosphatidylcholine vesicle-tubulin complexes.

1982 • 39 citations

Problems in the physical interpretation of membrane interaction and fusion

1978 • 39 citations

A synthetic peptide corresponding to the NH2 terminus of vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein is a pH-dependent hemolysin.

1984 • 38 citations

Vertebrate Photoreceptors

1943 • 37 citations

Fusion of small unilamellar vesicles induced by a serum albumin fragment of molecular weight 9000

1984 • 35 citations

Divalent Cation-Induced Aggregation of Chromaffin Granule Membranes

1979 • 33 citations

Chemiosmotic hypotheses of exocytosis: A critique

1984 • 33 citations

Chlorophylls as probes for membrane fusion. Polymyxin B-induced fusion of liposomes

1983 • 33 citations

Lipid Vesicle-Cell Interactions: Analysis of a Model for Transfer of Contents from Adsorbed Vesicles to Cells

1982 • 32 citations

Rapid kinetics of Ca2+-induced fusion of phosphatidylserine/phosphatidylethanolamine vesicles. The effect of bilayer curvature on leakage.

1985 • 32 citations

Studies of membrane fusion.: V. fusion of erythrocytes with non-haemolytic sendai virus

1979 • 28 citations

Regulation of pancreatic exocrine secretion in vitro : the action of secretagogues

1981 • 25 citations

Cytoplasmic Transport: Moving Ultrastructural Elements Common to Many Cell Types Revealed by Video-enhanced Microscopy

1982 • 23 citations

In Vitro Reconstitution of Chromaffin Granule–Cytoskeleton Interactions: Ionic Factors Influencing the Association of F‐Actin With Purified Chromaffin Granule Membranes

1982 • 23 citations

Kinetics of cation-induced aggregation of Torpedo electric organ synaptic vesicles

1979 • 22 citations

Synexin protein is non-selective in its ability to increase Ca2+-dependent aggregation of biological and artificial membranes

1979 • 20 citations

Liposomes as vehicles for cellular incorporation of biologically active macromolecules

1980 • 19 citations

The chromaffin granule as a model for membrane fusion: implications for exocytosis

1983 • 13 citations

Identification and function of intracellular calcium stores in neurons.

1980 • 12 citations

Influence of influenza and sendai virus on the rotational mobility of band 3 proteins in human erythrocyte membranes

1980 • 7 citations

Freezing and Thawing of Liposome Suspensions

2019 • 5 citations

Arachidonic acid release during IgE- and Ca2+ -ionophore activation of rat basophilic leukemia cells.

1983 • 4 citations