= Vesicle docking
<Vesicle docking> brings a transport <vesicle> into close, stable association with its target membrane before <membrane fusion>. Recognition factors and <SNARE proteins> help organize the contact. Docking and fusion are experimentally distinct: a carrier can remain attached without exchanging its internal contents with the target compartment. Reconstituted <liposomes> bearing appropriate <SNARE proteins> allowed such docked intermediates to be distinguished from subsequent fusion. <SNAREpins: minimal machinery for membrane fusion by T. Weber and others>[Weber and others, 1998, abstract: docked unfused intermediates and temperature-dependent fusion]{ref}
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