Membrane nanoclusters-tails of the unexpected

Erdinc Sezgin; Simon J Davis; Christian Eggeling

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2015.04.008

Membrane nanoclusters-tails of the unexpected

Cell. 2015 Apr 23;161(3):433-434. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.04.008.

Authors

Erdinc Sezgin¹, Simon J Davis¹, Christian Eggeling²

Affiliations

¹ MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, OX39DS Oxford, UK.
² MRC Human Immunology Unit, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford, OX39DS Oxford, UK. Electronic address: christian.eggeling@rdm.ox.ac.uk.

PMID: 25910202
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2015.04.008

Abstract

The existence, nature, and role of highly ordered membrane domains, often referred to as lipid rafts, have been highly debated by cell biologists for many years. In this issue, Raghupathy et al. describe molecular mechanisms leading to the formation of ordered lipid-protein clusters.

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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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MeSH terms

Animals
Lipid-Linked Proteins / metabolism*

Substances

Lipid-Linked Proteins

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