Calcium-Induced Displacement of Membrane-Associated Particles Upon Aggregation of Chromaffin Granules
- 4 February 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 195 (4277) , 495-497
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.835010
Abstract
Isolated chromaffin granules incubated in 10 millimolar calcium chloride aggregated, forming contact sites with a pentalaminar membrane structure. These circular attachment sites were free of membrane-associated particles, which accumulated at the periphery. Incubation in 20 millimolar ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid reversed these changes, which are regarded as initial events in the membrane fusion reaction.Keywords
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