{"term":{"id":"09850","title":"membrane rafts","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - membrane rafts","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.09850","code":"09850","status":"current","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Dynamic, nanometre-sized, highly ordered, membrane domains enriched in sterols and sphingolipids. They contain specific sets of membrane proteins that are sorted into rafts by their specific physical properties and specific lipid-protein interactions.","notes":{"1":"In functional terms, membrane rafts represent highly specialised membrane domains involved in various cellular processes, such as transmembrane transport, membrane trafficking, cell signalling, or virus assembly."},"links":[{"term":"sphingolipids","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/09860"},{"term":"sterols","url":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/09861"}],"sources":["PAC, 2018, 90, 1121. 'Terminology of bioanalytical methods (IUPAC Recommendations 2018)' on page 1180 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2016-1120)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/09850\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/09850\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/09850\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'membrane rafts' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.09850","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-06-28T09:04:52+00:00"}}