Is the fluid mosaic (and the accompanying raft hypothesis) a suitable model to describe fundamental features of biological membranes? What may be missing?

Frontiers in Plant Science

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Bagatolli, Luis A ^a   Mouritsen, Ole G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Fluid mosaic model; Membrane compositional fluctuations; Membrane curvature; Membrane domains; Membrane lateral organization; Membrane lateral pressure profile; Raft hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896055631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664462X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2013.00457     Document Type: Review

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