ceramide flip-flop?

[Madhu V. Singh]

Contact Dr. Anant Menon at Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison.  His group does
research on lipid asymmetry and flippases.

I think his email address is menon at biochem.wisc.edu


Good luck.

Madhuvrut

In article <5j2erm$h91 at info.service.rug.nl>, r.j.veldman at med.rug.nl wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know whether ceramide spontaneously flip-flops across the
> plasmamembrane? If so, is it a matter of seconds, hours, days? Are
> there any ceramide translocases known? Will a short-chain analogue
> flip-flop faster or slower than natural ceramide?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Robert Jan Veldman