Transmembrane migration (‘flip-flop’) of cholesterol in erythrocyte membranes
- 15 December 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 168 (3) , 575-577
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj1680575
Abstract
After exchange with [14C]cholesterol-labelled plasma lipoproteins for 0.5-4h, erythrocytes were extracted with bile-salt solutions. The extracted cholesterol (mainly from the outside of the erythrocyte membrane) had the same specific radioactivity as the residual sterol. Thus cholesterol equilibrates rapidly (half-time less than 1 h) between the two sides of the membrane.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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