I read with interest the Hot Papers section in your Feb. 6, 1995, issue [page 17]. In particular, I was delighted to see coverage of a paper applying biophysical techniques to cell biological questions (E. Neher, R.S. Zucker, Neuron, 10:21-3, 1993). Nevertheless, I was a little surprised that in your discussion of the recovery of secretory vesicle membrane you failed to cite the first study to define, both quantitatively and kinetically, secretory vesicle membrane retrieval using these techniques (P. Thomas et al., Journal of Cell Biology, 124:667-675, 1994). This work extended earlier real-time studies of the secretory process using the same techniques (P. Thomas et al., EMBO Journal, 12:303-6, 1993; P. Thomas et al., Neuron, 11:93-104, 1993).
- Paul Thomas
- Department of Human Physiology
- School of Medicine
- University of California
- Davis, Calif. 95616
- Department of Human Physiology