Do ‘lipidic particles’ represent intermembrane attachment sites?
- 1 September 1980
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 287 (5778), 166-167
- https://doi.org/10.1038/287166a0
Abstract
Although freeze-fracture electron microscopy is normally analysed with the presumption that particles represent proteins embedded within the membrane, particles which appeared to represent inverted lipid micelles within membranes have been reported. I have now confirmed the occurrence of particles in protein-free liposomes, but have found that they behave like intermembrane attachment sites rather than structures within a membrane.Keywords
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