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Published June 1972 | public
Journal Article

On the absence of ubiquitous structural protein subunits in biological membranes

Abstract

Although biological membranes exhibit a great diversity of functions, a number of general features appear to be similar in all membranes. In order to obtain a general concept of membrane structure and function, attempts have been made to find protein subunits responsible for the general structure of membranes, and numerous reports on such "structural proteins" appeared throughout the past decade. It was assumed that the structural proteins were necessary to maintain the membrane structure, whereas the special functions of each membrane were maintained by other proteins, e.g., enzymes.

Additional Information

© 1972 New York Academy of Sciences. This work was supported by United States Public Health Service GM 06965. One of us was a recipient of fellowship PF-527 from the American Cancer Society (D.P.), and another of fellowships from Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst and Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (H.K.). We wish to express our gratitude to Mr. Pete Zassenhaus and Mr. Ron Siemens for expert technical assistance. We also thank Dr. Paul Hargrave, Dr. John Smart, and Dr. Mike Sheetz for helpful discussions and suggestions.

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