title: Lipid rafts and caveolae and their role in compartmentation of redox signaling.
abstract: Membrane (lipid) rafts and caveolae, a subset of rafts, are cellular domains that concentrate plasma membrane proteins and lipids involved in the regulation of cell function. In addition to providing signaling platforms for G-protein-coupled receptors and certain tyrosine kinase receptors, rafts/caveolae can influence redox signaling. This review discusses molecular characteristics of and methods to study rafts/caveolae, determinants that contribute to the localization of molecules in these entities, an overview of signaling molecules that show such localization, and the contribution of rafts/caveolae to redox signaling. Of particular note is the evidence that endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS), NADPH oxygenase, and heme oxygenase, along with other less well-studied redox systems, localize in rafts and caveolae. The precise basis for this localization and the contribution of raft/caveolae-localized redox components to physiology and disease are important issues for future studies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093-0636, USA.
authors.forename: Hemal H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: Paul A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Insel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D021941:Caveolae / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D006801:Humans; D008563:Membrane Lipids / Q000378:metabolism; D021962:Membrane Microdomains / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D008954:Models, Biological; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D015398:Signal Transduction / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D008563:Membrane Lipids