ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2011
Dynamic transbilayer lipid asymmetry.
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- A cell-based scrambling assay reveals the phospholipid headgroup preference of TMEM16F on the plasma membrane.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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- Lysosome-associated CASM: from upstream triggers to downstream effector mechanisms.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025Review
- Nonvesicular lipid transfer drives myelin growth in the central nervous system.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Lipid-driven interleaflet coupling of plasma membrane order regulates FcεRI signaling in mast cells.Biophysical journal · 2024Article
- TMEM16F exacerbates tau pathology and mediates phosphatidylserine exposure in phospho-tau-burdened neurons.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- The Chemical Reactivity of Membrane Lipids.Chemical reviews · 2024Review
- Bilayer Charge Asymmetry and Oil Residues Destabilize Membranes upon Poration.Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids · 2024Article
- Protein-free domains in native and ferroptosis-driven oxidized cell membranes: a molecular dynamics study of biophysical properties and doxorubicin uptake.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2024Article
- Asymmetric Lipid Bilayers and Potassium Channels Embedded Therein in the Contact Bubble Bilayer.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024Article
- Review of Eukaryote Cellular Membrane Lipid Composition, with Special Attention to the Fatty Acids.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Review
- How Neuromembrane Lipids Modulate Membrane Proteins: Insights from G-Protein-Coupled Receptors (GPCRs) and Receptor Tyrosine Kinases (RTKs).Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology · 2023Review
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Abstract
Cells have thousands of different lipids. In the plasma membrane, and in membranes of the late secretory and endocytotic pathways, these lipids are not evenly distributed over the two leaflets of the lipid bilayer. The basis for this transmembrane lipid asymmetry lies in the fact that glycerolipids are primarily synthesized on the cytosolic and sphingolipids on the noncytosolic surface of cellular membranes, that cholesterol has a higher affinity for sphingolipids than for glycerolipids. In addition, P4-ATPases, "flippases," actively translocate the aminophospholipids phosphatidylserine and phosphatidylethanolamine to the cytosolic surface. ABC transporters translocate lipids in the opposite direction but they generally act as exporters rather than "floppases." The steady state asymmetry of the lipids can be disrupted within seconds by the activation of phospholipases and scramblases. The asymmetric lipid distribution has multiple implications for physiological events at the membrane surface. Moreover, the active translocation also contributes to the generation of curvature in the budding of transport vesicles.
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