Sterol-Rich Plasma Membrane Domains in Fungi
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Sterol-rich plasma membrane domains in fungi.
Concepts regarding the eukaryotic plasma membrane have been evolving in light of growing evidence that it is segregated into distinct lateral domains known as lipid rafts. These steroland sphingolipid-rich raft domains are thought to play important roles in dynamic processes, including protein sorting, cell polarity, and signal transduction. Because of this, it has been very intriguing that ste...
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عنوان ژورنال: Eukaryotic Cell
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1535-9778,1535-9786
DOI: 10.1128/ec.00008-07