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Importance and Role of Sterols in Fungal Membranes

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Biochemistry of Cell Walls and Membranes in Fungi

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The basic role of biomembranes is to provide a barrier between a cell or organelle and its environment and at the same time to serve as a matrix for the association of proteins with lipids (Gibbons et al. 1982) or, as pointed out by Lewis Thomas (1974), “it takes a membrane to make sense out of disorder”. In these membranes, sterols play a major role both architecturally and functionally. The most common membrane sterol in animals is cholesterol (Fig. 1).

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Vanden Bossche, H. (1990). Importance and Role of Sterols in Fungal Membranes. In: Kuhn, P.J., Trinci, A.P.J., Jung, M.J., Goosey, M.W., Copping, L.G. (eds) Biochemistry of Cell Walls and Membranes in Fungi. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-74215-6_10

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