1. Exocytosis : lessons from SNARE mutants and friends / Emmanuel Sotirakis and Thierry Galli -- 2. Regulation of SNARE complex assembly by second messengers : roles of phospholipases, Munc13 and Munc18 / Alexander J. A. Groffen and Matthijs Verhage -- 3. Rab GTPases and their role in the control of exocytosis / Romano Regazzi -- 4. The role of synaptotagmin and synaptotagmin-like protein (Slp) in regulated exocytosis / Mitsunori Fukuda -- 5. The synapsins and the control of neuroexocytosis / Pietro Baldelli, Anna Fassio, Anna Corradi, Flavia Valtorta and Fabio Benfenati -- 6. Phospholipase D : a multi-regulated lipid-modifying enzyme involved in the late stages of exocytosis / Marie-France Bader and Nicolas Vitale -- 7. Lipid rafts as regulators of SNARE activity and exocytosis / Christine Salaun and Luke H. Chamberlain -- 8. Mast cells as a model of nonneuroendocrine exocytosis / Cristiana Brochetta and Ulrich Blank -- 9. Acrosomal exocytosis / Claudia Nora Tomes -- 10. Nonsecretory, regulated exocytosis : a multifarious mechanism employed by cells to carry out a variety of functions / Emannuele Cocucci and Jacopo Meldolesi -- 11. Adaptation of the secretory machinery to pathophysiological conditions / Abderrahmani Amar