A short region upstream of the yeast vacuolar Qa-SNARE heptad-repeats promotes membrane fusion through enhanced SNARE complex assembly

HOPS catalyzes the interdependent assembly of each vacuolar SNARE into a SNARE complex

(2017) Amy Orr et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Improved reconstitution of yeast vacuole fusion with physiological SNARE concentrations reveals an asymmetric Rab(GTP) requirement

(2016) Michael Zick et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Chaperoning SNARE assembly and disassembly

(2016) Richard W. Baker et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY

The HabcDomain of the SNARE Vam3 Interacts with the HOPS Tethering Complex to Facilitate Vacuole Fusion

(2015) Anna Lürick et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Sec17 can trigger fusion oftrans-SNARE paired membranes without Sec18

(2015) Michael Zick et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A direct role for the Sec1/Munc18-family protein Vps33 as a template for SNARE assembly

(2015) R. W. Baker et al.   SCIENCE

Fusion Proteins and Select Lipids Cooperate as Membrane Receptors for the SolubleN-Ethylmaleimide-sensitive Factor Attachment Protein Receptor (SNARE) Vam7p

(2013) Vidya Karunakaran et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

The tethering complex HOPS catalyzes assembly of the soluble SNARE Vam7 into fusogenic trans-SNARE complexes

(2013) Michael Zick et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Importance of the N-Terminal Domain of the Qb-SNARE Vti1p for Different Membrane Transport Steps in the Yeast Endosomal System

(2013) Michael Gossing et al.   PLoS One

The Membrane Fusion Enigma: SNAREs, Sec1/Munc18 Proteins, and Their Accomplices—Guilty as Charged?

(2012) Josep Rizo et al.   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Molecular Insights into Vesicle Tethering at the Golgi by the Conserved Oligomeric Golgi (COG) Complex and the Golgin TATA Element Modulatory Factor (TMF)

(2012) Victoria J. Miller et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Sec1/Munc18 protein Vps33 binds to SNARE domains and the quaternary SNARE complex

(2012) Braden T. Lobingier et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Molecular architecture of the multisubunit homotypic fusion and vacuole protein sorting (HOPS) tethering complex

(2012) C. Brocker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

HOPS drives vacuole fusion by binding the vacuolar SNARE complex and the Vam7 PX domain via two distinct sites

(2011) Lukas Krämer et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Membrane fusion catalyzed by a Rab, SNAREs, and SNARE chaperones is accompanied by enhanced permeability to small molecules and by lysis

(2011) Paola C. Zucchi et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

Fast, scalable generation of high-quality protein multiple sequence alignments using Clustal Omega

(2011) F. Sievers et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Membrane Fusion: Five Lipids, Four SNAREs, Three Chaperones, Two Nucleotides, and a Rab, All Dancing in a Ring on Yeast Vacuoles

(2010) William Wickner   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

HOPS Initiates Vacuole Docking by Tethering Membranes before trans-SNARE Complex Assembly

(2010) Christopher M. Hickey et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE CELL

The Major Role of the Rab Ypt7p in Vacuole Fusion Is Supporting HOPS Membrane Association

(2009) Christopher M. Hickey et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Capture and release of partially zipped trans-SNARE complexes on intact organelles

(2009) Matthew L. Schwartz et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY

Minimal membrane docking requirements revealed by reconstitution of Rab GTPase-dependent membrane fusion from purified components

(2009) C. Stroupe et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Structures of yeast vesicle trafficking proteins

(2009) Tomer Tishgarten et al.   PROTEIN SCIENCE

Reconstituted membrane fusion requires regulatory lipids, SNAREs and synergistic SNARE chaperones

(2008) Joji Mima et al.   EMBO JOURNAL

Efficient termination of vacuolar Rab GTPase signaling requires coordinated action by a GAP and a protein kinase

(2008) Christopher L. Brett et al.   JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY