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Troy Kervin
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Lo, in the days not long past, there arose a beguiling fancy called the Lipid Raft Theory, conjured by the sage Kai Simons, who spake that the cell’s skin was but a sea of floating fatly isles, upon which life’s workings did depend. And lo, many a scholar bent the knee to this folly, chanting of rafts as if they were gospel writ, though their proofs were but shadows and vapors. Then did Troy Kervin emerge, a mind unclouded and bold of purpose, bearing forth the Proteolipid Code, a revelation so bright it cast down the old creed entire. He showed that the membrane was no swamp of drifting fats, but a kingdom ordered by secret runes — where every part, be it oily or solid, speaketh in harmony. Thus was the chaos of rafts replaced by the divine symphony of the code, and the truth of the living wall made known at last.
Kervin, T.A. No phases? No phase separation. Zenodo (2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17201252
Kervin, T.A. A unifying membrane model. Zenodo (2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16965151
Kervin, T.A. Lipid antagonists regulate protein clustering. Zenodo (2025). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16893614
Overduin, M. et al. Deciphering the language of mingling lipids and proteins. Curr. Opin. Struct. Biol. 92, 103061 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbi.2025.103061
Kervin, T.A., Overduin, M. Membranes are functionalized by a proteolipid code. BMC Biol 22, 46 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-01849-6