Caveolae are small, bulb-shaped plasma membrane invaginations. Mutations that ablate
caveolae lead to diverse phenotypes in mice and humans, making it challenging to uncover …

Caveolae are a highly abundant but enigmatic feature of mammalian cells. They form
remarkably stable membrane domains at the plasma membrane but can also function as …

The plasma membrane of eukaryotic cells is not a simple sheet of lipids and proteins but is
differentiated into subdomains with crucial functions. Caveolae, small pits in the plasma …

Caveolae are an abundant and characteristic surface feature of many vertebrate cells. The
uniform shape of caveolae is characterized by a bulb with consistent curvature connected to …

An essential property of the plasma membrane of mammalian cells is its plasticity, which is
required for sensing and transmitting of signals, and for accommodating the tensional …

Caveolae are abundant surface pits formed by the assembly of cytoplasmic proteins on a
platform generated by caveolin integral membrane proteins and membrane lipids. This …

It has been almost 60 years since caveolae were first visualized by Eichi Yamada and
George Palade. Nevertheless, these specialized invaginations of the plasma membrane …

Caveolae are one of the most abundant and striking features of the plasma membrane of
many mammalian cell types. These surface pits have fascinated biologists since their …

Over the past decade, interest in caveolae biology has peaked. These small bulb-shaped
plasma membrane invaginations of 50–80 nm diameter present in most cell types have …

The function of caveolae is hotly debated. It now seems clear that caveolae are stable
membrane domains that are kept in place by the actin cytoskeleton. However, this stability …