The mystery of membrane organization: composition, regulation and roles of lipid rafts

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 18, 361 (2017). doi:10.1038/nrm.2017.16 Authors: Erdinc Sezgin, Ilya Levental, Satyajit Mayor & Christian Eggeling Cellular plasma membranes are laterally heterogeneous, featuring a variety of distinct subcompartments that differ in their biophysical properties and composition. A large number of studies have focused on understanding the basis for this heterogeneity and its physiological relevance. The membrane raft hypothesis formalized a physicochemical
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