Assessing the nature of lipid raft membranes

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 0304-0312

  Niemelä, Perttu S ^a,b   Ollila, Samuli ^a,b   Hyvönen, Marja T ^a,b,c   Karttunen, Mikko ^d   Vattulainen, Ilpo ^a,e,f  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b HELSINKI INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Finland)

^c WIHURI RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^f TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; PHOSPHOLIPIDS; PRESSURE; PROTEINS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

BI-LAYER; LATERAL DOMAINS; LATERAL HETEROGENEITY; LATERAL PRESSURES; LIPID RAFT; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PRESSURE PROFILES; PROPERTY; SPHINGOMYELIN; TRANSIENT DOMAIN;

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES;

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; OLEOYLPALMITOYLLECITHIN; PALMITOYLSPHINGOMYELIN; PHOSPHOLIPID DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ARTICLE; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID MEMBRANE; LIPID RAFT; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NANOANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; PHASE TRANSITION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANE FLUIDITY; MEMBRANE MICRODOMAINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PHOSPHOLIPIDS;

EID: 33847249878     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030034     Document Type: Article

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