James Rothman won the Nobel Prize for his investigation of this process.
In comatose mutants of Drosophila, a protein necessary for this specific process is malformed. That ATPase, which can be inactivated by N-ethylmaleimide, is called NSF. Before this specific process begins, Rab effectors help recruit its participants, and they are dephosphorylated and recycled once it is complete. Depending on its conformation, complexin is either an inhibitor or promoter of this process. A superfamily of proteins that facilitate this process includes syntaxin and (*) VAMP; during this process, two members of that superfamily form a four alpha-helix bundle in a process called "zippering." James Rothman won the Nobel Prize for his investigation of this process. v- and t-SNAREs connect to begin this process, whose "kiss-and-run" type does not require clathrins for recapture. For 10 points, name this process preceded by docking, in which a vesicle releases its contents by merging with the cell membrane.
In comatose mutants of Drosophila, a protein necessary for this specific process is malformed.
vesicle  fusion [accept equivalents; prompt on  exocytosis]