UST Seminar. The Regulatory role of membrane Lipids for sinaling processes in the Central Nervous System

Abstract

Cell membranes have significant influence over signaling proteins that are embedded within them. One important class of such proteins are G protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). GPCRs are abundantly distributed in the central nervous system (CNS) where they sense molecules outside the cell and activate diverse signal transduction pathways inside the cell yielding a distinct cellular response.