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ReviewTrends in biochemical sciences2010

Protein-driven membrane stresses in fusion and fission.

Michael M Kozlov, Harvey T McMahon, Leonid V Chernomordik

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Review in Trends in biochemical sciences, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 122 papers.

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122citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

122 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. ESCRT-III function in membrane fission and repair.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2026
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  4. Biophysical Considerations in Cell Fusion.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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  5. Cell fusion in osteoclastogenesis.Biochemical Society transactions · 2025
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  6. The bacterial ESCRT-III PspA rods thin lipid tubules and increase membrane curvature through helix α0 interactions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  7. Thermally Driven Dynamic Behaviors in Polymeric Vesicles.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
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  10. Boosting Lipofection Efficiency Through Enhanced Membrane Fusion Mechanisms.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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  13. Membrane fission via transmembrane contact.Nature communications · 2024
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  16. Molecular regulation of myocyte fusion.Current topics in developmental biology · 2024
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62 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michael M KozlovDepartment of Physiology and Pharmacology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, 69978 Tel Aviv, Israel. michk@post.tau.ac.il
Harvey T McMahon
Leonid V Chernomordik

Funding

Protein-mediated membrane remodelingZIAHD001501 · NICHD · EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT · PI CHERNOMORDIK, LEONID V. · 2009 to 2025
$30.7M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA HD001501Medical Research Council MC_U105178795
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cellular membranes undergo continuous remodeling. Exocytosis and endocytosis, mitochondrial fusion and fission, entry of enveloped viruses into host cells and release of the newly assembled virions, cell-to-cell fusion and cell division, and budding and fusion of transport carriers all proceed via topologically similar, but oppositely ordered, membrane rearrangements. The biophysical similarities and differences between membrane fusion and fission become more evident if we disregard the accompanying biological processes and consider only remodeling of the lipid bilayer. The forces that determine the bilayer propensity to undergo fusion or fission come from proteins and in most cases from membrane-bound proteins. In this review, we consider the mechanistic principles underlying the fusion and fission reactions and discuss the current hypotheses on how specific proteins act in the two types of membrane remodeling.

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Membrane FusionAnimalsCell MembraneEndocytosisExocytosisHumansMembrane ProteinsMembrane Proteins

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PMID20638285
PMCPMC3556487

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