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ReviewToxicology and applied pharmacology2012

Lipid raft: A floating island of death or survival.

Kimberly S George, Shiyong Wu

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Review in Toxicology and applied pharmacology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 100 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

100 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Kimberly S GeorgeEdison Biotechnology Institute and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio 45701, USA.
Shiyong Wu

Funding

UV INDUCED AND PERK MEDIATED SIGNALING PATHWAYSR01CA086928 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI WU, SHIYONG · 2000 to 2012
$2.1M
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA086928NCI NIH HHS R01CA086928
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lipid rafts are microdomains of the plasma membrane enriched in cholesterol and sphingolipids, and play an important role in the initiation of many pharmacological agent-induced signaling pathways and toxicological effects. The structure of lipid rafts is dynamic, resulting in an ever-changing content of both lipids and proteins. Cholesterol, as a major component of lipid rafts, is critical for the formation and configuration of lipid raft microdomains, which provide signaling platforms capable of activating both pro-apoptotic and anti-apoptotic signaling pathways. A change of cholesterol level can result in lipid raft disruption and activate or deactivate raft-associated proteins, such as death receptor proteins, protein kinases, and calcium channels. Several anti-cancer drugs are able to suppress growth and induce apoptosis of tumor cells through alteration of lipid raft contents via disrupting lipid raft integrity.

Indexed as

Antineoplastic AgentsApoptosisCell MembraneCell SurvivalCholesterolHumansMembrane LipidsMembrane MicrodomainsNeoplasmsProteinsSignal TransductionAntineoplastic AgentsCholesterolMembrane LipidsProteins

Identifiers

PMID22289360
PMCPMC3299927

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