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Nanometre-level analysis demonstrates that lipid flow does not drive membrane glycoprotein movements.

Nature ·Vol. 340 ·No. 6231 ·1989-07-27 ·Pages 284-8

Sheetz MP, Turney S, Qian H, Elson EL

Abstract

Nanometre-level analyses of the movements of membrane glycoproteins tagged with gold particles demonstrate that diffusing particles are not under the influence of a lipid flow, although a subset of particles which appear attached to the cytoskeleton are moving rearward.

MeSH Terms

Animals Benzimidazoles/pharmacology Biological Transport Concanavalin A Cytochalasin D Cytochalasins/pharmacology Cytoskeleton/drug effects Diffusion Gold Macrophages/metabolism Membrane Glycoproteins/analysis,metabolism Membrane Lipids/physiology Mice Microchemistry Models, Biological Nocodazole

Chemicals

Benzimidazoles Cytochalasins Membrane Glycoproteins Membrane Lipids Concanavalin A Cytochalasin D Gold Nocodazole

Authors & Affiliations

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Sheetz M P

Department of Cell Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110.

Turney S

Qian H

Elson E L

Article Info

Journal

Nature

Abbr.

Nature

ISSN

0028-0836

DOI

10.1038/340284a0

Published

1989-07-27

Pages

284-8

Language

English

Region

England

NLM ID

0410462

Subset

Corrections

CommentIn

PMID: 2797177

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PubMed source DOI: 10.1038/340284a0 View journal details

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