Lipid rafts in the plant plasma membrane?

Acta Biologica Szegediensis

Volumn 47, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 7-10

  Bérczi, Alajos ^a   Horvath, Gyorgy ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Lipids; Plant plasma membrane; Rafts; Solubilization; Triton X 100

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CYTOCHROME B; MEMBRANE LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TRITON X 100;

ALPHA HELIX; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETIOLATION; LIPID COMPOSITION; NONHUMAN; PHASE PARTITIONING; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PLANT CELL; PLANT LEAF; PURIFICATION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOLUBILIZATION; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM); PHASEOLUS VULGARIS;

EID: 1342267507     PISSN: 03246523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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