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ReviewChemistry and physics of lipids2018

Sphingolipids and lipid rafts: Novel concepts and methods of analysis.

Erhard Bieberich

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Review in Chemistry and physics of lipids, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 117 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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117citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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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

117 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  18. Sphingolipid-mediated vesiculation in multidrug-resistantApplied and environmental microbiology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Erhard BieberichDepartment of Physiology at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, United States. Electronic address: erhard.bieberich@uky.edu.

Funding

Function of ceramide in neurodegenerative diseaseR01AG034389 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI BIEBERICH, ERHARD · 2010 to 2020
$3.6M
Regulation of cilia by ceramideR01NS095215 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY · PI BIEBERICH, ERHARD · 2016 to 2019
$1.4M
NIA NIH HHS R01 AG034389NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS095215
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

About twenty years ago, the functional lipid raft model of the plasma membrane was published. It took into account decades of research showing that cellular membranes are not just homogenous mixtures of lipids and proteins. Lateral anisotropy leads to assembly of membrane domains with specific lipid and protein composition regulating vesicular traffic, cell polarity, and cell signaling pathways in a plethora of biological processes. However, what appeared to be a clearly defined entity of clustered raft lipids and proteins became increasingly fluid over the years, and many of the fundamental questions about biogenesis and structure of lipid rafts remained unanswered. Experimental obstacles in visualizing lipids and their interactions hampered progress in understanding just how big rafts are, where and when they are formed, and with which proteins raft lipids interact. In recent years, we have begun to answer some of these questions and sphingolipids may take center stage in re-defining the meaning and functional significance of lipid rafts. In addition to the archetypical cholesterol-sphingomyelin raft with liquid ordered (Lo) phase and the liquid-disordered (Ld) non-raft regions of cellular membranes, a third type of microdomains termed ceramide-rich platforms (CRPs) with gel-like structure has been identified. CRPs are "ceramide rafts" that may offer some fresh view on the membrane mesostructure and answer several critical questions for our understanding of lipid rafts.

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AnimalsHumansMembrane MicrodomainsSphingolipidsSphingolipids

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PMID30194926
PMCPMC6196108

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