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ReviewFrontiers in cell and developmental biology2016

The Secret Life of Tethers: The Role of Tethering Factors in SNARE Complex Regulation.

Michelle L Dubuke, Mary Munson

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Review in Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 34 papers.

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34 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Mechanisms of SNARE proteins in membrane fusion.Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Michelle L DubukeDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA USA.
Mary MunsonDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical School Worcester, MA USA.

Funding

Structure and Function of the Exocyst ComplexR01GM068803 · NIGMS · UNIV OF MASSACHUSETTS MED SCH WORCESTER · PI MUNSON, MARY · 2005 to 2021
$7.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM068803
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Trafficking in eukaryotic cells is a tightly regulated process to ensure correct cargo delivery to the proper destination organelle or plasma membrane. In this review, we focus on how the vesicle fusion machinery, the SNARE complex, is regulated by the interplay of the multisubunit tethering complexes (MTC) with the SNAREs and Sec1/Munc18 (SM) proteins. Although these factors are used in different stages of membrane trafficking, e.g., Golgi to plasma membrane transport vs. vacuolar fusion, and in a variety of diverse eukaryotic cell types, many commonalities between their functions are being revealed. We explore the various protein-protein interactions and findings from functional reconstitution studies in order to highlight both their common features and the differences in their modes of regulation. These studies serve as a starting point for mechanistic explorations in other systems.

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intracellular traffickingmultisubunit tethering complexesSec1/Munc18SNARE complexes

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PMID27243006
PMCPMC4860414

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