Spitta, Luis Fernando: Phosphatidylcholine is organized in long-lived plasmalemmal platforms. - Bonn, 2013. - Dissertation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn.
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urn: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:5n-31403,
author = {{Luis Fernando Spitta}},
title = {Phosphatidylcholine is organized in long-lived plasmalemmal platforms},
school = {Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn},
year = 2013,
month = mar,

note = {All living cells are enclosed by a membrane that is mainly made up of proteins and lipids. The lateral organization of these constituents is a subject in current research. It has been discussed since two decades whether lipids are able to form stable assemblies, domains or platforms in the plasma membrane.
A major issue in this field is the visualization of lipid structures. The lipid phosphatidylcholine (PC) is one of the most common lipids in the plasma membrane. Recently, PC was visualized in membranes via a non-invasive metabolic labeling followed by fluorescent labeling. In the present work, the arrangement of this lipid within the plasma membrane was studied using a combination of this elegant, noninvasive labeling and a variety of modern fluorescent microscopy techniques. Both whole cells as well as cell body free plasma membrane preparations, so-called “membrane sheets”, were used for the analyses. It was demonstrated that PC is not only homogenously found within the plasma membrane, but also organized into locally restricted lipid platforms. The PC domains were characterized by determining their size and calculating the enrichment factor of the lipid in these spots in comparison to their homogenous surrounding. Furthermore, it could be demonstrated that although these PC-enriched structures were not fluctuating in their number of molecules, they exchanged lipids with their surroundings.
Based on this study and together with acquired results from collaborators, a model was developed that broadens the current view of the organization of PC within the plasma membrane. PC platforms have been calculated to have a diameter of 120 nm, consist of about 20,000 lipids and PC comprises 50 % of the platform. So far, lipid platforms on the plasma membrane could not be visualized and characterized. Hence, this work is of essential importance for the cell biological field validating the existence of lipid platforms.},

url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/5637}
}

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