Hooper N M
School of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, UK.
Curr Biol. 1998 Feb 12;8(4):R114-6. doi: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70984-4.
Glycolipid membrane domains have been suggested to have a number of physiological functions, but do they actually exist in vivo or are they artefacts of extraction procedures? Recent data go some way towards showing that such glycolipid domains really are present within both model and cellular membranes.