Membrane fusion protein
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Membrane fusion proteins are membrane proteins which cause more than one membrane to combine.

Examples include:
  • SNARE (protein)
    SNARE (protein)
    SNARE proteins are a large protein superfamily consisting of more than 60 members in yeast and mammalian cells....

    , such as VAMP
  • Gp41
    Gp41
    gp41 is a subunit of the envelope protein complex of retroviruses, including Human immunodeficiency virus and Simian-Human immunodeficiency virus. This glycoprotein subunit remains non-covalently-bound to gp120, and provides the second step by which HIV enters the cell...

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