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Without a raft

Nature volume 436, pages 638–639 (2005)Cite this article

The spatial organization of signalling proteins in the cell membrane is often ascribed to lipid-based ‘rafts’. But single-molecule tracking reveals that such organization probably arises by protein–protein interactions.

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Figure 1: Clustering to signal.

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