Dynamic Plasma Membranes: Portals Between Cells and Physiology Current Topics in Membranes Series

1. A Molecular Look at Membranes Max Berkowitz 2. Where Biology Meets Physics – A Converging View on Membrane Microdomain Dynamics Nicolas Destainville, Thomas H. Schmidt and Thorsten Lang 3. Plasma Membrane Repair in Health and Disease Alexis R. Demonbreun and Elizabeth M. McNally 4. Local Palmitoylation Cycles and Specialized Membrane Domain Organization Yuko Fukata, Tatsuro Murakami, Norihiko Yokoi and Masaki Fukata 5. An Adaptable Spectin/Ankyrin-Based Mechanism for Long-Range Organization of Plasma Membranes in Vertebrate Tissues Vann Bennett and Damaris N. Lorenzo 6. The Axon Initial Segment, Fifty Years Later: A Nexus for Neuronal Organization and Function Christophe Leterrier

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