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    glycolipoprotein lipid microdomains termed lipid rafts. Their existence in cellular membranes remains controversial. Indeed, Kervin and Overduin imply that lipid rafts...
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    assembly of membrane zones include the formation of lipid rafts and “cytoskeletal fences”, corrals wherein lipid and membrane proteins can diffuse freely, but...
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    associated with lipid rafts. It does so by controlling the formation or depletion of lipid rafts in the plasma membrane. The lipid rafts house the membrane...
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  • GM1 lipid rafts in response to astrocyte cholesterol. Cholesterol delivered by apolipoprotein E (ApoE) drives APP to associate with GM1 lipid rafts. When...
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    associated with lipid microdomains in the plasma membrane known as lipid rafts. Lipid rafts are characterized by the lipid molecules being in the lipid ordered...
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  • (Latin for "little caves"; singular, caveola), which are a special type of lipid raft, are small (50–100 nanometer) invaginations of the plasma membrane in...
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    slow process. Lipid rafts and caveolae are examples of cholesterol-enriched microdomains in the cell membrane. Also, a fraction of the lipid in direct contact...
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    neurotransmitter release. Palmitoylation mediates the affinity of a protein for lipid rafts and facilitates the clustering of proteins. The clustering can increase...
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    factor Hes3 and increases their numbers. GM1 gangliosides are found in lipid rafts on the cell surface. B subunit complexes labelled with fluorescent tags...
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  • intricate phase diagrams. One lipid-cholesterol system that has recently been studied intently is the lipid raft. Lipid rafts are cholesterol-enriched gel...
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    The lipid bilayer (or phospholipid bilayer) is a thin polar membrane made of two layers of lipid molecules. These membranes are flat sheets that form a...
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  • of the myofibrillar myopathy diseases Detergent resistant membrane, a lipid raft Digestive rate model, the diet selection that animals should perform to...
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    (see diagram) in cholesterol-rich lipid rafts areas of the membranes in eukaryotic cells. Formation of lipid rafts promotes aggregation of peripheral and...
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  • Membrane fluidity (category Lipids)
    'lipid raft', is hypothesized to exist in cell membranes and perform biological functions. Also, a narrow annular lipid shell of membrane lipids in...
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    herpesvirus 6 envelope components enriched in lipid rafts: Evidence for virion-associated lipid rafts". Virology Journal. 6: 127. doi:10.1186/1743-422X-6-127...
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  • Amphiphile Biological membrane Collodion bag Lipid Lipid polymorphism Lipid rafts Membrane potential Protein–lipid interaction Trigger zone Nath, Deepa (2005)...
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  • Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lipids. Biochemistry Essential fatty acid Lipid raft PIP2 domain Lipid signaling Saturated and unsaturated compounds...
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  • transfer Lipid raft, a cholesterol-enriched microdomain in cell membranes Raft spider, a European spider of the family Pisauridae Floating raft system,...
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  • PIP2 domain (category Lipids)
    cholesterol-independent lipid domain formed from phosphatidylinositol and positively charged proteins in the plasma membrane. They tend to inhibit GM1 lipid raft function...
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    microdomains (lipid rafts) occurs when PA63 binds to the receptor and heptamerizes. Once the receptor and PA returns to the lipid raft, E3 ubiquitin ligase...
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    Monoglycosylceramides in conjunction with cholesterol are prevalent in the lipid-raft micro domain, which are important sites in the binding of proteins, and...
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    cortex Cell culture Cellular model Cytoneme Cytorrhysis Cytotoxicity Lipid raft List of distinct cell types in the adult human body Outline of cell biology...
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    Cholesterol (category Lipid disorders)
    causing the enzyme to traffic to cholesterol dependent lipid domains sometimes called "lipid rafts". The substrate of phospholipase D is phosphatidylcholine...
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  • lipid regulation. Raft lipids typically have saturated hydrocarbon chains. Lipid rafts have a higher hydrophobic thickness than the rest of the lipid...
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    mitochondria by binding to the lipid raft regions of the MAM. However, the mutant form of this gene has a low affinity to the lipid raft regions, thereby diminishing...
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    the membrane skeleton. The presence of specialized structures named "lipid rafts" in the red blood cell membrane have been described by recent studies...
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    cholesterol- and sphingolipid-rich microdomains of the plasma membrane called lipid rafts. As many of the downstream transducer and effector molecules of GPCRs...
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    (February 2020). "PEDV enters cells through clathrin-, caveolae-, and lipid raft-mediated endocytosis and traffics via the endo-/lysosome pathway". Veterinary...
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  • studies in molecular and cell biology. Many of the studies of lipid rafts in artificial lipid systems have been performed with GUVs for this reason. Compared...
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  • biophysical experiments and has been used to study various subjects such as lipid rafts. POPC is also used in systems mimicking the cell membrane such as Nanodiscs...
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