Evidence map›Paper›PMID 28018169›Full record

ArticleFrontiers in molecular neuroscience2016

High Transmembrane Voltage Raised by Close Contact Initiates Fusion Pore.

Bing Bu, Zhiqi Tian, Dechang Li, Baohua Ji

Open access · goldAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Frontiers in molecular neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

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

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Molecular Dynamics Simulation for Membrane Fusion.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025
    Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Review
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

4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Bing BuBiomechanics and Biomaterials Laboratory, Department of Applied Mechanics, Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing, China.
Zhiqi TianKey Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University Xi'an, China.
Dechang LiBiomechanics and Biomaterials Laboratory, Department of Applied Mechanics, Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing, China.
Baohua JiBiomechanics and Biomaterials Laboratory, Department of Applied Mechanics, Beijing Institute of Technology Beijing, China.
Beijing Institute of Technology · CNXi'an Jiaotong University · CN

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Membrane fusion lies at the heart of neuronal communication but the detailed mechanism of a critical step, fusion pore initiation, remains poorly understood. Here, through atomistic molecular dynamics simulations, a transient pore formation induced by a close contact of two apposed bilayers is firstly reported. Such a close contact gives rise to a high local transmembrane voltage that induces the transient pore formation. Through simulations on two apposed bilayers fixed at a series of given distances, the process in which two bilayers approaching to each other under the pulling force from fusion proteins for membrane fusion was mimicked. Of note, this close contact induced fusion pore formation is contrasted with previous reported electroporation under

Indexed as

exocytosisfusion pore formationmechanical forcemembrane fusiontransmembrane voltage

Identifiers

PMID28018169
PMCPMC5145871
OpenAlexW2560476417

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.