Membranes are more mosaic than fluid
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- 30 November 2005
- journal article
- other
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 438 (7068) , 578-580
- https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04394
Abstract
The wealth of new data on membrane protein structures and functions is changing our general view of membrane architecture. Some of the key themes that are emerging are that membranes are patchy, with segregated regions of structure and function, that lipid regions vary in thickness and composition, and that crowding and ectodomains limit exposure of lipid to the adjacent aqueous regions.Keywords
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