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The lipid trade

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Lipid transport proteins (LTPs) were first purified more than 25 years ago on the basis of their remarkable ability to facilitate lipid exchange between membranes in vitro. There are at least five superfamilies of LTPs and all cells express multiple LTPs. These proteins have crucial roles in vesicular trafficking, signalling and lipid metabolism, especially in phosphoinositide metabolism.

the first study to demonstrate that some LTPs exchange one lipid for a second lipid

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  • 12 June 2014

    The above article referred to the protein Snf1, but it should have referred to Sfh1 instead, in all places. This has been corrected online. The author apologizes for any confusion caused to readers.

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