Membrane fusion

This balanced volume provides a broad and coherent overview of recent progress in membrane fusion research--highlighting an interdisciplinary treatment of the subject from the fields of biophysics, biochemistry, cell biology, virology, and biotechnology--in a single volume., Featuring easy-access sections on the general properties of membranes and applications of membrane fusion techniques, this valuable sourcebook outlines membrane structure, lipid polymorphism, and intermembrane forces ... covers membrane fusion in model systems ... presents the fusogenic properties of enveloped viruses ... discusses the fusion and flow of intracellular membranes and cell-cell fusion occurring during fertilization and myogenesis ... offers applications of membrane fusion techniques in cell-biological research and biotechnology ... and more. Supplying a comprehensive view of this exciting topic, Membrane Fusion is a working resource for molecular, cell, and membrane biologists; biophysicists; biochemists; virologists; biotechnologists; microbiologists; immunologists; physiologists; and graduate and medical school students in biophysics, biochemistry, physiology, virology, cell biology, and biotechnology.

"First published 1991 by Marcel Dekker, Inc."

Preface, Contributors, Introduction, I. GENERAL ASPECTS OF MEMBRANE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION, 1. Lipid and Protein Structure of Biological Membranes, 2. Lipid Polymorphism, 3. Forces Governing Lipid Interaction and Rearrangement, II. MEMBRANE FUSION IN MODEL SYSTEMS, 4. Membrane Fusion in Lipid Vesicle Systems: An Overview, 5. Modeling of Aggregation and Fusion of Phospholipid Vesicles, 6. Role of Nonbilayer Lipids in Membrane Fusion, 7. Fusion of Zwitterionic Phospholipid Vesicles, 8. Fusion of Phospholipid Vesicles with Planar Phospholipid Membranes, 9. Fusion of Liposomes Induced and Modulated by Proteins and Polypeptides, 10. Effects of an Integral Membrane Glycoprotein on Phospholipid Vesicle Fusion, 11. Membrane Fusion Induced by Polyethylene Glycol, 12. Modulation of Membrane Fusion by Glycolipids and Lectin-Mediated Intermembrane Contact, III. FUSOGENIC PROPERTIES OF VIRUSES, 13. Membrane Fusion and the Infectious Entry of Viruses into Cells: An Overview, 14. Fusion of Enveloped Viruses: From Microscopic Observation to Kinetic Simulation, 15. Influenza Virus Hemagglutinin and Membrane Fusion, 16. Fusion of Viruses with Phospholipid Vesicles at Neutral pH, 17. The Role of Env…