Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Lipidomic and biophysical homeostasis of mammalian membranes counteracts dietary lipid perturbations to maintain cellular fitness

  • Kandice R. Levental,
  • Eric Malmberg,
  • Jessica L. Symons,
  • Yang-Yi Fan,
  • Robert S. Chapkin,
  • Robert Ernst,
  • Ilya Levental

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15203-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Proper membrane physiology requires maintenance of a narrow range of physicochemical properties, which must be buffered from external perturbations. Here, authors report lipidomic remodeling to preserve membrane physical properties upon exogenous polyunsaturated fatty acids exposure.