Introduction
List of Contributors.
Part I: ASSESSING TRANSMEMBRANE MOVEMENT AND ASYMMETRY OF
LIPIDS.
1. Methods for the Determination of Lipid Transmembrane
Distribution and Movement in Biological Membranes (Philippe F.
Devaux and Andreas Herrmann).
2. Detection and Measurement of Unlabeled Lipid Transmembrane
Movement(Ivan Lopez-Montero, Marisela Velez and
Philippe F. Devaux).
Part II: LIPID ASYMMETRY IN CELL MEMBRANES.
3. New Insights in Membrane Lipid Asymmetry in Animal and Plant
Cells (Alain Zachowski).
4. Sphingolipid Asymmetry and Transmembrane Translocation in
Mammalian Cells (Gerrit van Meer, Sylvia Neumann, and Per
Haberkant).
5. Transbilayer Movement and Distribution of Cholesterol
(Peter Muller, Anna Pia Plazzo, and Andreas
Herrmann).
Part III. ENERGY-INDEPENDENT PROTEIN-MEDIATED TRANSMEMBRANE
MOVEMENT OF LIPIDS.
6. Phospholipid Flip-Flop in Biogenic Membranes (Anant K.
Menon and Andreas Herrmann).
7. Phospholipid Scramblase: When Phospholipid Asymmetry Goes
Away (Edouard M. Bevers and Patrick L. Williamson).
Part IV: ENERGY-DEPENDENT LIPID TRANSPORT ACROSS
MEMBRANES.
8. Flip or Flop: Mechanism and (Patho)Physiology of
P4-ATPase-Catalyzed Lipid Transport (Patricia M.
Verhulst, Joost C.M. Holthuis, and Thomas G. Pomorski).
9. Coupling Drs2p to Phospholipid Translocation, Membrane
Asymmetry, and Vesicle Budding (Xiaoming Zhou, Paramasivam
Natarajan, Baby-Periyanayaki Muthusamy, Todd R. Graham, and Ke
Liu).
10. Substrate Specifi city of the Aminophospholipid Flippase
(Shelley M. Cook and David L. Daleke).
11. The Flippase Delusion? (Naomi L. Pollock, Petra H.M.
Niesten, and Richard Callaghan).
Part V: RELEVANCE OF LIPID TRANSMEMBRANE DISTRIBUTION
FOR MEMBRANE PROPERTIES AND PROCESSES
12. Membrane Lipid Asymmetry and Permeability to Drugs: A Matter
of Size (Adam Blanchard and Cyril Rauch).
13. Endocytosis and Lipid Asymmetry (Nina Ohlwein, Andreas
Herrmann, and Philippe F. Devaux).
Part VI: APOPTOSIS AND DISEASES: CONSEQUENCES OF DISRUPTION
TO LIPID TRANSMEMBRANE ASYMMETRY
14. Membrane Lipid Asymmetry in Aging and Apoptosis
(Krishnakumar Balasubramanian and Alan J. Schroit).
15. Phosphatidylserine Exposure in Hemoglobinopathies (Frans
A. Kuypers and Eric Soupene).
16. Scott Syndrome: More Than a Hereditary Defect of Plasma
Membrane Remodeling (Florence Toti and Jean-Marie
Freyssinet).
17. ABCA1, Tangier Disease, and Lipid Flopping (Ana Zarubica
and Giovanna Chimini).