Lipid polarity and sorting in epithelial
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Gerrit van Meer; Kai Simons
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Article
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1988
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Apical and basolateral membrane domains of epithelial cell plasma membranes possess unique lipid compositions. The tight junction, the structure separating the two domains, forms a diffusion barrier for membrane components and thereby prevents intermixing of the two sets of lipids. The barrier appar