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Detergent Resistance As a Tool in Membrane Research

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Journal Nat Protoc
Specialties Biology
Pathology
Science
Date 2007 Sep 15
PMID 17853872
Citations 126
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Abstract

The biological membrane is a complicated matrix wherein different lipid environments are thought to exist. The more ordered or raft environment has been perceived biochemically accessible via its relative resistance to detergent. This paper outlines the protocols developed in our laboratory for the analysis of such detergent-resistant membranes (DRMs). We stress the fact that DRMs are artifactual in nature and should not be equivocated to lipid rafts, their usefulness being limited to assigning raft-association potential most convincingly when changes in DRM composition are induced by biochemically/physiologically relevant events. These protocols are completed in 1-2 d.

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