Lipid rafts: The enigmatic membrane microdomain
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Lipid rafts and membrane dynamics.
Cell membranes contain a variety of lipid species that differ in their physico-chemical properties. Lipid-lipid immiscibility gives rise to lateral heterogeneities in the membrane plane, a subset of which are termed lipid rafts (Simons and Vaz, 2004). Originally defined biochemically as detergentresistant membrane (DRM) fractions, lipid rafts are proposed to be highly dynamic, submicroscopic as...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Biochemist
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0954-982X,1740-1194
DOI: 10.1042/bio03105016