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Do ‘lipidic particles’ represent intermembrane attachment sites?

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Although freeze-fracture electron microscopy is normally analysed with the presumption that particles represent proteins embedded within the membrane, particles which appeared to represent inverted lipid micelles within membranes have been reported1–4. I have now confirmed the occurrence of particles in protein-free liposomes, but have found that they behave like intermembrane attachment sites rather than structures within a membrane.

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Miller, R. Do ‘lipidic particles’ represent intermembrane attachment sites?. Nature 287, 166–167 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/287166a0

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