Minimal membrane docking requirements revealed by reconstitution of Rab GTPase-dependent membrane fusion from purified components.
Stroupe C, Hickey CM, Mima J, Burfeind AS, Wickner W, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2009 Oct 20 - link

Assays of vacuole fusion resolve the stages of docking, lipid mixing, and content mixing.
Jun Y, Wickner W, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2007 Aug 7 - link

Reversible, cooperative reactions of yeast vacuole docking.
Jun Y, Thorngren N, Starai VJ, Fratti RA, Collins K, Wickner W, EMBO J, 2006 Nov 15 - link

A soluble SNARE drives rapid docking, bypassing ATP and Sec17/18p for vacuole fusion.
Thorngren N, Collins KM, Fratti RA, Wickner W, Merz AJ, EMBO J, 2004 Jul 21 - link

Hierarchy of protein assembly at the vertex ring domain for yeast vacuole docking and fusion.
Wang L, Merz AJ, Collins KM, Wickner W, J Cell Biol, 2003 Feb 3 - link

Vacuole fusion at a ring of vertex docking sites leaves membrane fragments within the organelle.
Wang L, Seeley ES, Wickner W, Merz AJ, Cell, 2002 Feb 8 - link

Rho1p and Cdc42p act after Ypt7p to regulate vacuole docking.
Eitzen G, Thorngren N, Wickner W, EMBO J, 2001 Oct 15 - link

Sequential action of two GTPases to promote vacuole docking and fusion.
Eitzen G, Will E, Gallwitz D, Haas A, Wickner W, EMBO J, 2000 Dec 15 - link

A new role for a SNARE protein as a regulator of the Ypt7/Rab-dependent stage of docking.
Ungermann C, Price A, Wickner W, Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2000 Aug 1 - link

The docking of primed vacuoles can be reversibly arrested by excess Sec17p (alpha-SNAP).
Wang L, Ungermann C, Wickner W, J Biol Chem, 2000 Jul 28 - link

The docking stage of yeast vacuole fusion requires the transfer of proteins from a cis-SNARE complex to a Rab/Ypt protein.
Price A, Seals D, Wickner W, Ungermann C, J Cell Biol, 2000 Mar 20 - link

Proteins needed for vesicle budding from the Golgi complex are also required for the docking step of homotypic vacuole fusion.
Price A, Wickner W, Ungermann C, J Cell Biol, 2000 Mar 20 - link

Vam7p, a vacuolar SNAP-25 homolog, is required for SNARE complex integrity and vacuole docking and fusion.
Ungermann C, Wickner W, EMBO J, 1998 Jun 15 - link

A vacuolar v-t-SNARE complex, the predominant form in vivo and on isolated vacuoles, is disassembled and activated for docking and fusion.
Ungermann C, Nichols BJ, Pelham HR, Wickner W, J Cell Biol, 1998 Jan 12 - link

Docking of yeast vacuoles is catalyzed by the Ras-like GTPase Ypt7p after symmetric priming by Sec18p (NSF).
Mayer A, Wickner W, J Cell Biol, 1997 Jan 27 - link

Sec18p (NSF)-driven release of Sec17p (alpha-SNAP) can precede docking and fusion of yeast vacuoles.
Mayer A, Wickner W, Haas A, Cell, 1996 Apr 5 - link