Very true but normally that is associated with intracellular membrane bound compartments, like endosomes or worn out mitochondria. I can't find any discussion of their being used that way wrt the cell membrane, though.
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Any word search for 'lysosomes exocytosis' for example will yield an appropriate set of references to consider. Original work goes back to the mid-to-late 90's but has somewhat taken off as of approx 2010 or so.
Thanks. I will take a look. I love finding these "pocket literatures" that are well known to the cognoscenti but never really break out into a broader audience.
A former PhD student is currently postdoc'ing in a 'high throughput screening lab' at NIH, and this is one of their focuses (as in lysosomal disorders). So, definitely somewhat of a niche, but an interesting & important one. For years nobody thought endosomes or lysosomes even fused with the PM!
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