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Nanometre-level analysis demonstrates that lipid flow does not drive membrane glycoprotein movements

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Nanometre-level analyses of the movements of membrane glycoproteins tagged with gold particles demonstrate that diffusing particles are not under the influence of a lipid flow, although a subset of particles which appear attached to the cyto-skeleton are moving rearward.

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  1. Department of Cell Biology, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St Louis, Missouri, 63110, USA

    Michael P. Sheetz & Stephen Turney

  2. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Avenue, St Louis, Missouri, 63110, USA

    Hong Qian & Elliot L. Elson

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Sheetz, M., Turney, S., Qian, H. et al. Nanometre-level analysis demonstrates that lipid flow does not drive membrane glycoprotein movements. Nature 340, 284–288 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/340284a0

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