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Looking at membrane lipids from the inside of the cell

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A novel biosensor developed to visualize phosphatidylserine in intact cells suggests a new role for the anionic lipid in specifying intracellular membranes involved in signaling events.

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Figure 1: Sensing PS with an endogeneously expressed biosensor.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, J. Antoinette Killian is in the Chemical Biology and Organic Chemistry Research Group, Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research and Institute of Biomembranes, Faculty of Science, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands. J.A.Killian@uu.nl,

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Killian, J. Looking at membrane lipids from the inside of the cell. Nat Chem Biol 4, 164–165 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nchembio0308-164

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