9. Imaging the distributions of lipids and proteins in the plasma membrane with high-resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry

2008 ◽  
Vol 80 (15) ◽  
pp. 5986-5992 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sutapa Ghosal ◽  
Stewart J. Fallon ◽  
Terrance J. Leighton ◽  
Katherine E. Wheeler ◽  
Michael J. Kristo ◽  
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2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bianca Kyriacou ◽  
Katie L. Moore ◽  
David Paterson ◽  
Martin D. de Jonge ◽  
Daryl L. Howard ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 288 (23) ◽  
pp. 16855-16861 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica F. Frisz ◽  
Haley A. Klitzing ◽  
Kaiyan Lou ◽  
Ian D. Hutcheon ◽  
Peter K. Weber ◽  
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The plasma membranes of mammalian cells are widely expected to contain domains that are enriched with cholesterol and sphingolipids. In this work, we have used high-resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry to directly map the distributions of isotope-labeled cholesterol and sphingolipids in the plasma membranes of intact fibroblast cells. Although acute cholesterol depletion reduced sphingolipid domain abundance, cholesterol was evenly distributed throughout the plasma membrane and was not enriched within the sphingolipid domains. Thus, we rule out favorable cholesterol-sphingolipid interactions as dictating plasma membrane organization in fibroblast cells. Because the sphingolipid domains are disrupted by drugs that depolymerize the cells actin cytoskeleton, cholesterol must instead affect the sphingolipid organization via an indirect mechanism that involves the cytoskeleton.


1999 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 1001-1008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Konstantin L. Gavrilov ◽  
Stephen J. Bennison ◽  
Kurt R. Mikeska ◽  
Jan M. Chabala ◽  
Riccardo Levi-Setti

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