eprintid: 1472661 rev_number: 22 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/01/47/26/61 datestamp: 2015-11-17 14:01:15 lastmod: 2021-11-01 01:36:47 status_changed: 2015-11-17 14:01:15 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Cremona, A creators_name: Orsini, F creators_name: Corsetto, PA creators_name: Hoogenboom, BW creators_name: Rizzo, AM title: Reversible Dissolution of Microdomains in Detergent-Resistant Membranes at Physiological Temperature ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C06 divisions: F60 note: © 2015 Cremona et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited abstract: The formation of lipid microdomains ("rafts") is presumed to play an important role in various cellular functions, but their nature remains controversial. Here we report on microdomain formation in isolated, detergent-resistant membranes from MDA-MB-231 human breast cancer cells, studied by atomic force microscopy (AFM). Whereas microdomains were readily observed at room temperature, they shrunk in size and mostly disappeared at higher temperatures. This shrinking in microdomain size was accompanied by a gradual reduction of the height difference between the microdomains and the surrounding membrane, consistent with the behaviour expected for lipids that are laterally segregated in liquid ordered and liquid disordered domains. Immunolabeling experiments demonstrated that the microdomains contained flotillin-1, a protein associated with lipid rafts. The microdomains reversibly dissolved and reappeared, respectively, on heating to and cooling below temperatures around 37 °C, which is indicative of radical changes in local membrane order close to physiological temperature. date: 2015-06-06 date_type: published official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132696 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub pmcid: PMC4493071 language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Journal Article verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1042380 doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0132696 pii: PONE-D-15-02638 language_elements: eng lyricists_name: Hoogenboom, Bart lyricists_id: BWHOO59 actors_name: Hoogenboom, Bart actors_name: Barczynska, Patrycja actors_id: BWHOO59 actors_id: PBARC91 actors_role: owner actors_role: impersonator full_text_status: public publication: PLoS One volume: 10 number: 7 article_number: e0132696 event_location: United States issn: 1932-6203 citation: Cremona, A; Orsini, F; Corsetto, PA; Hoogenboom, BW; Rizzo, AM; (2015) Reversible Dissolution of Microdomains in Detergent-Resistant Membranes at Physiological Temperature. PLoS One , 10 (7) , Article e0132696. 10.1371/journal.pone.0132696 <https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132696>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1472661/1/Reversible%20Dissolution%20of%20Microdomains%20in%20Detergent-Resistant%20Membranes%20at%20Physiological%20Temperature..pdf