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SUBMITTER: Nydegger S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2063894 | biostudies-other | 2006 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nydegger Sascha S Khurana Sandhya S Krementsov Dimitry N DN Foti Michelangelo M Thali Markus M
The Journal of cell biology 20060530 5
Specific spatial arrangements of proteins and lipids are central to the coordination of many biological processes. Tetraspanins have been proposed to laterally organize cellular membranes via specific associations with each other and with distinct integrins. Here, we reveal the presence of tetraspanin-enriched microdomains (TEMs) containing the tetraspanins CD9, CD63, CD81, and CD82 at the plasma membrane. Fluorescence and immunoelectron microscopic analyses document that the surface of HeLa cel ...[more]