Lipids Can Make Them Stick Together

Publication date: Available online 28 March 2017
Source:Trends in Biochemical Sciences
Author(s): Cedric Govaerts
To be active, membrane proteins often need to assemble into multimers either transiently or permanently. Using high-end mass spectrometry (MS), Robinson and colleagues show that the formation of transient multimers may require lipids at the interface while stable oligomers appear not to require such help.



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