Lipid rafts: controversies resolved, mysteries remain

I Levental, KR Levental, FA Heberle - Trends in cell biology, 2020 - cell.com
The lipid raft hypothesis postulates that lipid–lipid interactions can laterally organize
biological membranes into domains of distinct structures, compositions, and functions. This …

Membrane organization and lipid rafts

K Simons, JL Sampaio - Cold Spring Harbor …, 2011 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Cell membranes are composed of a lipid bilayer, containing proteins that span the bilayer
and/or interact with the lipids on either side of the two leaflets. Although recent advances in …

Coupling of protein condensates to ordered lipid domains determines functional membrane organization

HY Wang, SH Chan, S Dey, I Castello-Serrano… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
During T cell activation, the transmembrane adaptor protein LAT (linker for activation of T
cells) forms biomolecular condensates with Grb2 and Sos1, facilitating signaling. LAT has …

Lipid rafts as a membrane-organizing principle

D Lingwood, K Simons - science, 2010 - science.org
Cell membranes display a tremendous complexity of lipids and proteins designed to perform
the functions cells require. To coordinate these functions, the membrane is able to laterally …

Revitalizing membrane rafts: new tools and insights

K Simons, MJ Gerl - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2010 - nature.com
Ten years ago, we wrote a Review on lipid rafts and signalling in the launch issue of Nature
Reviews Molecular Cell Biology. At the time, this field was suffering from ambiguous …

Membrane lipid nanodomains

M Cebecauer, M Amaro, P Jurkiewicz… - Chemical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Lipid membranes can spontaneously organize their components into domains of different
sizes and properties. The organization of membrane lipids into nanodomains might …

Palmitoylation regulates raft affinity for the majority of integral raft proteins

I Levental, D Lingwood, M Grzybek, Ü Coskun… - Proceedings of the …, 2010 - pnas.org
The physical basis for protein partitioning into lipid rafts remains an outstanding question in
membrane biology that has previously been addressed only through indirect techniques …

Biological membrane organization and cellular signaling

X Cheng, JC Smith - Chemical reviews, 2019 - ACS Publications
To execute their many vital functions, cell membranes are highly organized. Here, we review
how membrane structure shapes signal transduction across membranes. Recent …

Large-scale fluid/fluid phase separation of proteins and lipids in giant plasma membrane vesicles

T Baumgart, AT Hammond, P Sengupta… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - pnas.org
The membrane raft hypothesis postulates the existence of lipid bilayer membrane
heterogeneities, or domains, supposed to be important for cellular function, including lateral …

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 …