title: Lipids Can Make Them Stick Together.
abstract: To be active, membrane proteins often need to assemble into multimers either transiently or permanently. Using high-end mass spectrometry (MS), Robinson and colleagues show that the formation of transient multimers may require lipids at the interface while stable oligomers appear not to require such help.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes, Center for Structural Biology and Bioinformatics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, CP 206/02, Bd du Triomphe, 1050 Brussels, Belgium. Electronic address: cgovaert@ulb.ac.be.
authors.forename: Cedric
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Govaerts
mesh_terms: D008055:Lipids / Q000737:chemistry*; D013058:Mass Spectrometry; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D008055:Lipids; D008565:Membrane Proteins