lipid rafts in signal transduction
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The role of membrane lipid rafts in Signal transductionTRANSCRIPT
Role of Membrane Lipid Rafts in Signal Transduction
ByUpendar Rao
Golla1220106
Outline
What are lipid rafts?
Why do they form?
What methods are used to study lipid rafts?
What effects do they have on eukaryotes?
Why all the controversy?
Membrane: Its Components
What are Lipid Rafts ?
“Lipid rafts are small (10-200nm), heterogeneous, highly dynamic, sterol- and sphingolipid-enriched domains that compartmentalize cellular
processes”
Cell membrane
Examples of lipid and protein domains in cell membranes
Cholesterol-rich domains
indirect immunofluorescence microscopy
Domains formed by the proton–argenine symportertransporter (Can1p–GFP)
Single domains, enriched in the fluorescent lipid analogue DMPECy5
Lipid domains with greater relative order than the bulk membrane, visualizedin living macrophages with the fluorescent probe, Laurdan.The warmer pseudo-colours representmore ordered regions
The scale bars represent 1 μm in a, and 5 μm in c and d.
Types of lipid rafts: Two
• Caveolae: small, flask-shaped invaginations of the plasma membrane enriched in caveolin
• Planar lipid rafts: found in neurons and enriched in flotillin
• Caveolin and flotillin recruit signaling proteins
• Signaling can be promoted or dampened
Raft Proteins
• True resident proteins– GPI-anchored proteins-prion protein (PrPc)– Caveolin– Flotillin
• Signaling proteins– G-protein, non-receptor tyrosine kinases
• Cytoskeletal/Adhesion proteins– actin, myosin, vinculin, cofilin, cadherin, ezrin
How to name Lipid Rafts ?
Why do they form?
Why do they form? Cholesterol
• Cholesterol is the dynamic “glue” that holds the raft together– Saturation– Hydroxyl H-bonding
with amide
• Up to 25% of cholesterol is found in the brain…CNS?
• When removed, most proteins dissociate from rafts
How to Identify Rafts ?
How to Modify Rafts ?
Rafts in Signal Transduction ?
How Signaling Initiated Through Rafts ?
Disorders & Diseases
• Mood disorders– Therapeutic efficacy of antidepressants
• Alzheimer’s disease– Platforms for production of amyloid-β (neurotoxic
protein)
• Prion disorder– Normal prion protein (PrPc) is converted to abnormal
proteins (PrPsc) in lipid rafts (GPI anchor required)
• HIV virus– Budding may occur from
lipid rafts
Why all the controversy?
• Problems with biomembranes– Lipid rafts are too small to be resolved by light
microscopy– Difficult to study lipid rafts in intact cells– Not in thermodynamic equilibrium
• Problems with synthetic membranes– Lower concentration of proteins– Difficult to model membrane-cytoskeletal interactions– Lack natural lipid asymmetry – Studied under equilibrium conditions
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