Communications Biology (Jun 2021)
CHIMs are versatile cholesterol analogs mimicking and visualizing cholesterol behavior in lipid bilayers and cells
Abstract
Matos et al characterise previously developed cholesterol analogues, named CHIMs, which can be fluorescently labelled by click-chemistry. They find that CHIMs segregate similarly to cholesterol in lipid bilayers, allow the visualisation of cholesterol dynamics in cells, and can functionally replace cholesterol in C.elegans.