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The structural and physical properties of membranes affect many functional and dynamic processes that take place in and between membranes. Therefore, selective modulation of these properties may reveal fundamental insight at the molecular level as to how a certain function, involving a membrane, is accomplished mechanistically. To gain such an insight, the model of choice may be particularly relevant, as one membrane model may be more amenable and susceptible to modulation than another. This appears particularly true in case of studies aimed at understanding and revealing the mechanism of membrane fusion.
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Fonteijn, T.A.A., Engberts, J.B.F.N., Hoekstra, D. (1991). On the Mechanism of Membrane Fusion: Use of Synthetic Surfactant Vesicles as a Novel Model System. In: Ohki, S. (eds) Cell and Model Membrane Interactions. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3854-7_13
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