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Pathway of membrane fusion from early stages (contact–hemifusion–fusion pore opening) to late stages, in which expansion of nascent fusion pore(s) of a few nanometers in diameter to a much larger diameter comparable with fusing vesicle or cell sizes completes unification of two membrane enclosed volumes.
