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Aspects of Membrane Structure: Updated for the Clinician
Author(s) -
Smith J. A.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 0004-8291
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-5994.1978.tb02410.x
Subject(s) - hereditary spherocytosis , medicine , etiology , membrane , membrane structure , computational biology , pathology , biochemistry , biology
Summary: A detailed understanding of biological membrane structure is necessary to explain the basis of many diseases whose etiology result from aberrant membrane function. Dramatic advances in our understanding of the cell membrane, its composition, and the properties of its proteins and lipids (e.g. fluidity), and the interactions between these components are described below. For example, new knowledge of the membrane structural abnormalities can now explain features of lymphomas, leukaemia and hereditary spherocytosis.