ArabidopsisHAP2/GCS1 is a gamete fusion protein homologous to somatic and viral fusogens

Two HAP2-GCS1 homologs responsible for gamete interactions in the cellular slime mold with multiple mating types: Implication for common mechanisms of sexual reproduction shared by plants and protozoa and for male-female differentiation

(2016) Marina Okamoto et al.   DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Cell fusion and nuclear fusion in plants

(2016) Daisuke Maruyama et al.   SEMINARS IN CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The cytoplasmic domain of the gamete membrane fusion protein HAP2 targets the protein to the fusion site in Chlamydomonas and regulates the fusion reaction

(2015) Y. Liu et al.   DEVELOPMENT

FastME 2.0: A Comprehensive, Accurate, and Fast Distance-Based Phylogeny Inference Program: Table 1.

(2015) Vincent Lefort et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The I-TASSER Suite: protein structure and function prediction

(2015) Jianyi Yang et al.   NATURE METHODS

The TOPCONS web server for consensus prediction of membrane protein topology and signal peptides

(2015) Konstantinos D. Tsirigos et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Virus and Cell Fusion Mechanisms

(2014) Benjamin Podbilewicz   Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology

Structural Basis of Eukaryotic Cell-Cell Fusion

(2014) Jimena Pérez-Vargas et al.   CELL

Function of the Male-Gamete-Specific Fusion Protein HAP2 in a Seven-Sexed Ciliate

(2014) Eric S. Cole et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Juno is the egg Izumo receptor and is essential for mammalian fertilization

(2014) Enrica Bianchi et al.   NATURE

Genetic basis of cell–cell fusion mechanisms

(2013) Pablo S. Aguilar et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

CSB: a Python framework for structural bioinformatics

(2012) I. Kalev et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

SnapShot: Viral and Eukaryotic Protein Fusogens

(2012) Sebastien Igonet et al.   CELL

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

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

HHblits: lightning-fast iterative protein sequence searching by HMM-HMM alignment

(2011) Michael Remmert et al.   NATURE METHODS

Conserved Eukaryotic Fusogens Can Fuse Viral Envelopes to Cells

(2011) O. Avinoam et al.   SCIENCE

How significant is a protein structure similarity with TM-score = 0.5?

(2010) Jinrui Xu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Dali server: conservation mapping in 3D

(2010) Liisa Holm et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Is HAP2-GCS1 an ancestral gamete fusogen?

(2010) Julian L. Wong et al.   TRENDS IN CELL BIOLOGY

Alphavirus Entry and Membrane Fusion

(2010) Margaret Kielian et al.   Viruses-Basel

HAP2(GCS1)-Dependent Gamete Fusion Requires a Positively Charged Carboxy-Terminal Domain

(2010) Julian L. Wong et al.   PLoS Genetics

Jalview Version 2--a multiple sequence alignment editor and analysis workbench

(2009) A. M. Waterhouse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Searching protein structure databases with DaliLite v.3

(2008) L. Holm et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Structures and Mechanisms of Viral Membrane Fusion Proteins: Multiple Variations on a Common Theme

(2008) Judith M. White et al.   CRITICAL REVIEWS IN BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The conserved plant sterility gene HAP2 functions after attachment of fusogenic membranes in Chlamydomonas and Plasmodium gametes

(2008) Y. Liu et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Viral membrane fusion

(2008) Stephen C Harrison   NATURE STRUCTURAL & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

MUSTER: Improving protein sequence profile-profile alignments by using multiple sources of structure information

(2008) Sitao Wu et al.   PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS

Domain Tree-Based Analysis of Protein Architecture Evolution

(2007) K. Forslund et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION