...Golam M. Uddin; Rafa Abbas; Timothy E. Shutt The dynamic processes of mitochondrial fusion and fission determine the shape of mitochondria, which can range from individual fragments to a hyperfused network, and influence mitochondrial function. Changes in mitochondrial shape can occur rapidly...

.../by/3.0/ ) which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. calcium fission fusion gliotransmission mitophagy trafficking Astrocytes are a subset of glial cells that provide trophic and structural support...

...) the ‘docking’ of these vesicles/granules at the membrane itself, (iii) the ‘priming’ of the secretory vesicles/granules for the fusion process, and, finally, (iv) the ‘fusion’ of vesicular/granular membranes with the PM to permit content release from the cell. Recent work indicates that non-muscle myosin II...

... suggests that ESCRT proteins are also required downstream of these events to enable fusion of multivesicular bodies with lysosomes. Autophagy is a related pathway required for the degradation of organelles, long-lived proteins and protein aggregates which also converges on lysosomes. The proteins...

...) phosphorylates the motor protein dynein and sorts it to lipid droplets, allowing them to be transported on microtubules. Lipid droplets grow in size by fusion, which is dependent on dynein and the transfer on microtubules, and is catalysed by the SNARE (soluble N -ethylmaleimide-sensitive fusion protein...

... Society 2004 elimination of mitochondria fission fusion mitochondrial inhibitors reactive oxygen species (ROS) When HeLa cells were treated for 48–72 h with uncouplers in combination with antimycine or myxothiazole, a significant (50–70%) fraction of the cells died but the rest...

...J. P. Luzio; B. M. Mullock; P. R. Pryor; M. R. Lindsay; D. E. James; R. C. Piper Delivery of endocytosed macromolecules to lysosomes occurs by means of direct fusion of late endosomes with lysosomes. This has been formally demonstrated in a cell-free content mixing assay using late endosomes...

...J. J. Skehel; K. Cross; D. Steinhauer; D. C. Wiley The ‘fusion peptides’ of a group of enveloped viruses that includes influenza, paramyxo-, retro-and filo-viruses are N-terminal regions of their membrane fusion proteins generated by cleavage of non-functional precursors. For the influenza membrane...