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. 2014 Jul 21;5:325. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2014.00325

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Glycosphingolipid interaction with cholesterol, an important constituent of lipid rafts. (A) GalCer, extended conformation. (B,C) GalCer, tilted conformation, induced by H-bonding interactions with cholesterol OH-group, shown in (C) [(A,B): space-filling representation, (C): stick representation]. Printed with permission from Ref. (56), in an extension of earlier work by Nyholm et al. (58).