Lipid rafts: contentious only from simplistic standpoints

By John Hancock. Nature reviews. Molecular cell biology, 2006

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Molecular Biology

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Revitalizing membrane rafts: new tools and insights (2010, background): “The first state is represented by dynamic nanoscale assemblies that associate and dissociate on a subsecond timescal”
The Fluid-Mosaic Model of Membrane Structure: still relevant to understanding the structure, function and dynamics of biological membranes after more than 40 years. (2014, background): “cate these excellent contributions [16–18,63–69,197,197,200,205–214].”
The multiple faces of caveolae (2007, background): “Both the lipid composition and the packing of the lipid bilayer conform to the parameters that would be expected from a clustered liquid-ordered lipid-raft domai”
Advances in Planar Lipid Bilayers and Liposomes (2011, background): “For this reason, it is useful to describe for instance the complex shape changes occurring in closed lipid vesicles [8].”
Molecular Pathogenesis of Shigella spp.: Controlling Host Cell Signaling, Invasion, and Death by Type III Secretion (2008, background): “The majority of cholesterol is found in the plasma membrane of the eukaryotic cell, where it is not distributed evenly but rather accumulates in microdomains enriched in sphingolipids and proteins, so-called lipid rafts (98, 282, 285).”
Use of cyclodextrins to manipulate plasma membrane cholesterol content: evidence, misconceptions and control strategies. (2007, background): “Morphology, size, density and molecular composition of rafts in cellular membranes are still controversial, as summarized recently in several excellent reviews [33,35–47] and a detailed discussion of these topics is beyond the scope of the current review.”
Co-operation of TLR4 and raft proteins in LPS-induced pro-inflammatory signaling (2014, background): “selected proteins which separate laterally for subsecond lifetime in the glycerophospholipid-rich milieu of the membrane [41, 42].”
Membrane lipids: where they are and how they behave (2008, background): “Important questions remain about whether and how lipid rafts in vesicular transport recruit specific proteins, such as the SNAREs (soluble N -ethylmaleimide-sensitive factor attachment protein receptors) that are required for targeting and docking these vesicles, and whether such proteins may actua”