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Hirotomo Wakabayashi
Researcher at Hiroshima University
Publications - 1
Citations - 194
Hirotomo Wakabayashi is an academic researcher from Hiroshima University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Membrane fluidity & Biological membrane. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 171 citations.
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Functional interactions between sphingolipids and sterols in biological membranes regulating cell physiology
Xue Li Guan,Cleiton Martins Souza,Harald Pichler,Gisele Dewhurst,Olivier Schaad,Kentaro Kajiwara,Hirotomo Wakabayashi,Tanya Ivanova,Guillaume A. Castillon,Manuele Piccolis,Fumiyoshi Abe,Robbie Loewith,Kouichi Funato,Markus R. Wenk,Howard Riezman +14 more
TL;DR: Using lipid analysis by mass spectrometry and a genetic approach on mutants in sterol metabolism, it is shown that cells adjust their membrane composition in response to mutant sterol structures preferentially by changing their sphingolipid composition.