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. 2015 Jan 12:5:520.
doi: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00520. eCollection 2014.

Lipid peroxidation modifies the assembly of biological membranes "The Lipid Whisker Model"

Ángel Catalá  1
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Lipid peroxidation modifies the assembly of biological membranes "The Lipid Whisker Model"

Ángel Catalá. Front Physiol. .
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Keywords: Fluid Mosaic Model; Lipid Whisker Model; PUFAs; lipid peroxidation; membranes.

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Hypothetical model of the plasma membrane. In terms of lipids, the heterogeneous membrane is believed to consist of a mixture of a dispersed “lipid raft” phase, enriched in cholesterol, raft-associated proteins, and saturated lipids (such as sphingolipids), and the “non-raft” matrix phase enriched with phospholipids containing PUFAs and vitamin E. Vitamin E, partition into domains that are enriched in polyunsaturated phospholipids increasing the concentration of the vitamin in the place where take place the lipid peroxidation process and oxidized phospholipids (oxPl) are formed. Reproduced from Catala (2012). Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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