Secretion: kiss and run caught on film.

Curr Biol

Department of Neurobiology, Pharmacology and Physiology, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA.

Published: May 2003

Recent results have provided graphic support for the hypothesis that vesicle secretion involves a 'kiss-and-run' mechanism. Evanescent field microscopy has shown that, during exocytosis, intravesicular markers escape without collapse of the vesicular membrane into the surface membrane and that the empty vesicle is immediately retrieved back into the cell.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0960-9822(03)00320-8DOI Listing

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