The state of lipid rafts: from model membranes to cells

M Edidin - Annual review of biophysics and biomolecular …, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Lipid raft microdomains were conceived as part of a mechanism for the
intracellular trafficking of lipids and lipid-anchored proteins. The raft hypothesis is based on …

[HTML][HTML] Seeing spots: complex phase behavior in simple membranes

SL Veatch, SL Keller - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Molecular Cell …, 2005 - Elsevier
Liquid domains in model lipid bilayers are frequently studied as models of raft domains in
cell plasma membranes. Micron-scale liquid domains are easily produced in vesicles …

[HTML][HTML] Separation of liquid phases in giant vesicles of ternary mixtures of phospholipids and cholesterol

SL Veatch, SL Keller - Biophysical journal, 2003 - cell.com
We use fluorescence microscopy to directly observe liquid phases in giant unilamellar
vesicles. We find that a long list of ternary mixtures of high melting temperature (saturated) …

[HTML][HTML] Sphingomyelin/phosphatidylcholine/cholesterol phase diagram: boundaries and composition of lipid rafts

RFM De Almeida, A Fedorov, M Prieto - Biophysical journal, 2003 - cell.com
The ternary system palmitoylsphingomyelin (PSM)/palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine
(POPC)/cholesterol is used to model lipid rafts. The phase behavior of the three binary …

High cholesterol/low cholesterol: effects in biological membranes: a review

WK Subczynski, M Pasenkiewicz-Gierula… - Cell biochemistry and …, 2017 - Springer
Lipid composition determines membrane properties, and cholesterol plays a major role in
this determination as it regulates membrane fluidity and permeability, as well as induces the …
X Liu, T Auth, N Hazra, MF Ebbesen… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Cellular engulfment and uptake of macromolecular assemblies or nanoparticles via
endocytosis can be associated to both healthy and disease-related biological processes as …

Lipid rafts have different sizes depending on membrane composition: a time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer study

RFM de Almeida, LMS Loura, A Fedorov… - Journal of molecular …, 2005 - Elsevier
The ternary lipid system palmitoylsphingomyelin (PSM)/palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine
(POPC)/cholesterol is a model for lipid rafts. Previously the phase diagram for that mixture …

Phase diagrams of lipid mixtures relevant to the study of membrane rafts

FM Goñi, A Alonso, LA Bagatolli, RE Brown… - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA …, 2008 - Elsevier
The present paper reviews the phase properties of phosphatidylcholine–sphingomyelin–
cholesterol mixtures, that are often used as models for membrane “raft” microdomains. The …