Lipids and membrane lateral organization

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 1, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Sonnino, Sandro ^a   Prinetti, Alessandro ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Dipartimento di Chimica   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; Lipid rafts; Phase separation; Sphingolipids

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; LIPID;

ARTICLE; BIOMEMBRANE; CELL MEMBRANE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURFACE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COMPLEX FORMATION; HYDROPHILICITY; LIPID ANALYSIS; LIPID BILAYER; LIPID MEMBRANE; LIPID RAFT; PHASE SEPARATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION;

EID: 83655165847     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2010.00153     Document Type: Article

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