Lipid traffic: Floppy drives and a superhighway

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 209-220

  Holthuis, Joost C M ^a   Levine, Tim P ^b  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABC TRANSPORTER; CARRIER PROTEIN; FATTY ACID; GLYCEROLIPID; LIPID; LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL; SCRAMBLASE; SPHINGOSINE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL ORGANELLE; CELL POLARITY; CELL VACUOLE; CYTOLOGY; DIFFUSION; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EUKARYOTE; EXOCYTOSIS; GOLGI COMPLEX; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID COMPOSITION; LIPID MEMBRANE; LIPID TRANSPORT; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN HYDROLYSIS; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN TARGETING; REVIEW;

EID: 14644393694     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm1591     Document Type: Review

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