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SUBMITTER: Kaakinen M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3303869 | biostudies-literature | 2012
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kaakinen Mika M Kaisto Tuula T Rahkila Paavo P Metsikkö Kalervo K
Biochemistry research international 20120305
We examined the distribution of selected raft proteins on the sarcolemma of skeletal myofibers and the role of cholesterol environment in the distribution. Immunofluorescence staining showed that flotillin-1 and influenza hemagglutinin exhibited rafts that located in the domains deficient of the dystrophin glycoprotein complex, but the distribution patterns of the two proteins were different. Cholesterol depletion from the sarcolemma by means of methyl-β-cyclodextrin resulted in distorted caveol ...[more]