SNAREs are concentrated in cholesterol‐dependent clusters that define docking and fusion sites for exocytosis

By T. Lang, D. Bruns, Dirk Wenzel, D. Riedel, Phillip Holroyd, C. Thiele, R. Jahn. EMBO Journal, 2001

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How proteins move lipids and lipids move proteins (2001, background): “SNARES on the target membrane have also been found to be dependent on cholesterol for clustering, thereby forming specialized fusion site”
Neurotrophin secretion: current facts and future prospects. (2003, background): “More important, in contrast to the constitutively secreted granules, the vesicles of the regulated pathway fuse with the plasma membrane in a strictly Ca2+-dependent manner and most likely at specialized cholesterol rich release sites along the plasma membrane (see, e.g.Lang et al., 2001).”
SNAREs — engines for membrane fusion (2006, background): “Plasma-membrane SNAREs are not uniformly distributed in the membrane, but are clustered in nanodomains, the stability of which depends on cholestero”