Yao Fu, Kanako Miyazaki, Yuta Chiba, Keita Funada, Tomomi Yuta, Tian Tian, Kanji Mizuta, Jumpei Kawahara, Ling Zhang, Daniel Martin, Tsutomu Iwamoto, Ichiro Takahashi, Satoshi Fukumoto, Keigo Yoshizaki
Lipid rafts are membrane microdomains rich in cholesterol, sphingolipids, glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins (GPI-APs), and receptors. These lipid raft components are localized at the plasma membrane and are essential for signal transmission and organogenesis. However, few reports have been published on the specific effects of lipid rafts on tooth development. Using microarray and single-cell RNA sequencing methods, we found that a GPI-AP, lymphocyte antigen-6 (Ly6)/Plaur domain-containing 1 (Lypd1), was specifically expressed in preodontoblasts...
March 22, 2023: Journal of Biological Chemistry