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ReviewCold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology2011

Membrane organization and lipid rafts.

Kai Simons, Julio L Sampaio

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Review in Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 482 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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482citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

482 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 1,033 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kai SimonsMax Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, 01307 Dresden, Germany. simons@mpi-cbg.de
Julio L Sampaio
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics · DEMax Planck Society · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell membranes are composed of a lipid bilayer, containing proteins that span the bilayer and/or interact with the lipids on either side of the two leaflets. Although recent advances in lipid analytics show that membranes in eukaryotic cells contain hundreds of different lipid species, the function of this lipid diversity remains enigmatic. The basic structure of cell membranes is the lipid bilayer, composed of two apposing leaflets, forming a two-dimensional liquid with fascinating properties designed to perform the functions cells require. To coordinate these functions, the bilayer has evolved the propensity to segregate its constituents laterally. This capability is based on dynamic liquid-liquid immiscibility and underlies the raft concept of membrane subcompartmentalization. This principle combines the potential for sphingolipid-cholesterol self-assembly with protein specificity to focus and regulate membrane bioactivity. Here we will review the emerging principles of membrane architecture with special emphasis on lipid organization and domain formation.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiological TransportCell LineDogsEndoplasmic ReticulumGolgi ApparatusLipid BilayersMembrane LipidsMembrane MicrodomainsMembrane ProteinsModels, BiologicalSphingolipidsSterolsYeastsLipid BilayersMembrane LipidsMembrane ProteinsSphingolipidsSterols

Identifiers

PMID21628426
PMCPMC3179338
OpenAlexW2111724662

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