Lipid rafts: at a crossroad between cell biology and physics

K Jacobson, OG Mouritsen, RGW Anderson - Nature cell biology, 2007‏ - nature.com
Membrane lateral heterogeneity is accepted as a requirement for the function of biological
membranes and the notion of lipid rafts gives specificity to this broad concept. However, the …

The structural role of cholesterol in cell membranes: from condensed bilayers to lipid rafts

MR Krause, SL Regen - Accounts of chemical research, 2014‏ - ACS Publications
Conspectus Defining the two-dimensional structure of cell membranes represents one of the
most daunting challenges currently facing chemists, biochemists, and biophysicists. In …

Higher-order transient membrane protein structures

Y Zhang, H Mazal, VS Mandala, G Pérez-Mitta… - Proceedings of the …, 2025‏ - pnas.org
This study shows that five membrane proteins—three GPCRs, an ion channel, and an
enzyme—form self-clusters under natural expression levels in a cardiac-derived cell line …

Membrane molecules mobile even after chemical fixation

KAK Tanaka, KGN Suzuki, YM Shirai, ST Shibutani… - Nature …, 2010‏ - nature.com
To the Editor: Fixation of cells and tissues is the critical first step for histochemical or
cytochemical investigations1, 2. Recent efforts to visualize lipid rafts by immunofluorescence …

Role of lipid rafts in pathogen-host interaction-a mini review

R Kulkarni, EAC Wiemer, W Chang - Frontiers in Immunology, 2022‏ - frontiersin.org
Lipid rafts, also known as microdomains, are important components of cell membranes and
are enriched in cholesterol, glycophospholipids and receptors. They are involved in various …

Lipid rafts, cholesterol, and the brain

Z Korade, AK Kenworthy - Neuropharmacology, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Lipid rafts are specialized membrane microdomains that serve as organizing centers for
assembly of signaling molecules, influence membrane fluidity and trafficking of membrane …

Functional nanoscale organization of signaling molecules downstream of the T cell antigen receptor

E Sherman, V Barr, S Manley, G Patterson… - Immunity, 2011‏ - cell.com
Receptor-regulated cellular signaling often is mediated by formation of transient,
heterogeneous protein complexes of undefined structure. We used single and two-color …

Correlation functions quantify super-resolution images and estimate apparent clustering due to over-counting

SL Veatch, BB Machta, SA Shelby, EN Chiang… - PloS one, 2012‏ - journals.plos.org
We present an analytical method using correlation functions to quantify clustering in super-
resolution fluorescence localization images and electron microscopy images of static …

Plasma membrane-associated proteins are clustered into islands attached to the cytoskeleton

BF Lillemeier, JR Pfeiffer, Z Surviladze… - Proceedings of the …, 2006‏ - pnas.org
Although much evidence suggests that the plasma membrane of eukaryotic cells is not
homogenous, the precise architecture of this important structure has not been clear. Here we …

Association of γ-secretase with lipid rafts in post-Golgi and endosome membranes

KS Vetrivel, H Cheng, W Lin, T Sakurai, T Li… - Journal of Biological …, 2004‏ - jbc.org
Alzheimer's disease-associated β-amyloid peptides (Aβ) are generated by the sequential
proteolytic processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP) by β-and γ-secretases. There is …