Rothman and colleagues proposed that the specificity of a vesicle fusing with its target membrane lies in the interaction of pairs of proteins called v-(vesicle) and t-(target)

a. SNAPs.
b. SNAREs.
c. NSFs.
d. COPs.


Answer: b. SNAREs.

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