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Countercurrents in lipid flow

Two studies find that a lipid-exchange cycle mediates the enrichment of the lipid phosphatidylserine in the cell membrane compared with the membrane of an organelle called the endoplasmic reticulum, where the lipid is produced.

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Figure 1: Cycling lipid transport.

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Menon, A., Levine, T. Countercurrents in lipid flow. Nature 525, 191–192 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/525191a

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