Lipid rafts: At a crossroad between cell biology and physics

Nature Cell Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 7-14

  Jacobson, Ken ^a   Mouritsen, Ole G ^b   Anderson, Richard G W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; GLYCOSPHINGOLIPID; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR; PHOSPHATIDYLSERINE; PROTEIN TYROSINE KINASE; SPECTRIN; STEROL; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; TRITON X 100;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; BIOASSAY; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOPHYSICS; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CYTOLOGY; CYTOMETRY; CYTOSKELETON; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; EPITHELIUM CELL; FLUORESCENCE ANALYSIS; FLUORESCENCE CORRELATION SPECTROSCOPY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; GOLGI COMPLEX; IMMUNOGOLD STAINING; LIPID RAFT; MICROEMULSION; NANOPARTICLE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RADIATION SCATTERING; REVIEW; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STOICHIOMETRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMICS;

BIOLOGY; CELL MEMBRANE; HUMANS; MEMBRANE MICRODOMAINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHYSICS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 33845901815     PISSN: 14657392     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncb0107-7     Document Type: Review

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