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ArticleBio-protocol2020

Lipid Mixing Assay for Murine Myoblast Fusion and Other Slow Cell-cell Fusion Processes.

Evgenia Leikina, Kamran Melikov, Anthony G Rabinovich, Douglas P Millay, Leonid V Chernomordik

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Article in Bio-protocol, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Evgenia LeikinaSection on Membrane Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Kamran MelikovSection on Membrane Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Anthony G RabinovichSection on Membrane Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Douglas P MillayDivision of Molecular Cardiovascular Biology, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH 45229, USA.
Leonid V ChernomordikSection on Membrane Biology, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development · USNational Institutes of Health · USCincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipid mixing (redistribution of lipid probes between fusing membranes) has been widely used to study early stages of relatively fast viral and intracellular fusion processes that take seconds to minutes. Lipid mixing assays are especially important for identification of hemifusion intermediates operationally defined as lipid mixing without content mixing. Due to unsynchronized character and the slow rate of the differentiation processes that prime the cells for cell-cell fusion processes in myogenesis, osteoclastogenesis and placentogenesis, these fusions take days. Application of lipid mixing assays to detect early fusion intermediates in these very slow fusion processes must consider the continuous turnover of plasma membrane components and potential fusion-unrelated exchange of the lipid probes between the membranes. Here we describe the application of lipid mixing assay in our work on myoblast fusion stage in development and regeneration of skeletal muscle cells. Our approach utilizes conventional

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HemifusionLipid mixingMembrane fusionMyoblast fusionMyomakerMyomergerSyncytium formation

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PMID33659518
PMCPMC7842408
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