id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_slk6i2ogm5gdpctowzjinupo5m Barry R. Lentz Filling Potholes on the Path to Fusion Pores 2002 3 .pdf application/pdf 1930 145 59 problem theoretically, in terms of simple models in which complex arrangements of lipid molecules are treated in simplification, it is probably, if properly parameterized, a useful zeroth order approach to the very difficult problem of estimating the free energies of "stalk" that joins half the lipid components of the two original bilayers (Fig. 2 B from Markin and Albanesi (2001)). free energy of the stalk was estimated suggested that the stalk was the lowestenergy intermediate of several proposed fusion mechanisms (Siegel bending energy of a geometrically relaxed stalk can be reduced significantly from the original estimate that structures leading to fusion, this construct was originally used as a selfconsistent and convenient way to estimate the free energy associated with both teams Markin/Albanesi and Kozlovsky/Kozlov is that the energy required to deform the monolayers into a stalks do represent low-energy pathways to membrane fusion. model of membrane fusion: solution of energy Membrane fusion: stalk model revisited. ./cache/work_slk6i2ogm5gdpctowzjinupo5m.pdf ./txt/work_slk6i2ogm5gdpctowzjinupo5m.txt