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Membrane Leftovers after Fusion of Vacuoles

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Stephen Carmichael
Affiliation:
Mayo Clinic
Mark McNiven
Affiliation:
Mayo Clinic

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In a clever application of time-lapse fluorescence microscopy, Li Wang, Scott Seeley, William Wickner, and Alexey Merz looked to see if there was membrane left over after vacuoles fused within a cell. Specifically, It is not known what happens when two vacuoles come together (this is referred to as “docking” ) and join together as one larger vacuole (“fusion“). For reference, the surfaces of the vacuoJes where they have joined is the “boundary” membrane, the membranes on the outside are the “outside” membranes, and the circular junction of the boundary and outside membranes is the “vertex.“

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2003

References

2. Wang, L., Seeley, E.S., Wickner, W., and Merz, A.J., Vacuole fusion at a ring of vertex docking sites leaves membrane fragments within the organetle, Celt 108:357-369, 2002 CrossRefGoogle Scholar