Need tension relief fast? Try caveolae

Satyajit Mayor

doi:10.1016/j.cell.2011.01.018

Need tension relief fast? Try caveolae

Cell. 2011 Feb 4;144(3):323-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.01.018.

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Satyajit Mayor¹

Affiliation

¹ National Centre for Biological Sciences, TIFR, Bangalore, India. mayor@ncbs.res.in

PMID: 21295694
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2011.01.018

Abstract

Caveolae are protein-driven membrane invaginations that regulate both the physical and chemical composition of the plasma membrane. Sinha et al. (2011) now show that caveolae are membrane reservoirs that are used to rapidly buffer against changes in membrane tension.

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