Proving Lipid Rafts Exist: Membrane Domains in the Prokaryote Borrelia burgdorferi Have the Same Properties as Eukaryotic Lipid Rafts

• Timothy J. LaRocca ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Timothy J. LaRocca, Priyadarshini Pathak

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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• Priyadarshini Pathak ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Timothy J. LaRocca, Priyadarshini Pathak

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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• Salvatore Chiantia,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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• Alvaro Toledo,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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• John R. Silvius,

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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• Jorge L. Benach,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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• Erwin London

  * E-mail: Erwin.London@stonybrook.edu

  Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, United States of America

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