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Raft partitioning of the yeast uracil permease during trafficking along the endocytic pathway.
Traffic (Copenhagen, Denmark) - 1 Feb 2003
Dupré Sophie, Haguenauer-Tsapis Rosine
Abstract excerpt
Lipid rafts, formed by the lateral association of sphingolipids and cholesterol in the external membrane leaflet, have been implicated in membrane traffic and cell signaling in mammalian cells. Yeast plasma membranes were also recently shown to contain lipid raft microdomains consisting of sphingolipids and ergosterol, and containing several plasma membrane proteins, including Gas1p, a GPI-anchored protein, and...
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