“…With a reported size of microdomains ranging from nanoscale up to microscale (Edidin, 2001; Cacas et al, 2012), direct visualization of such domains in living cells remains challenging. Sterol-dependent protein localization was reported in various plant systems (Borner et al, 2005; Roche et al, 2008; Kierszniowska et al, 2009; Minami et al, 2009; Carmona-Salazar et al, 2011; Navarro-Lérida et al, 2012) and selected proteins with sterol-dependent membrane location were shown to exhibit a patchy organization within the plasma membrane (Bariola et al, 2004; Parton and Hancock, 2004). The biological function of these microdomains was especially linked to signaling and transport processes in several independent studies (Simons and Toomre, 2000; Borner et al, 2005; Langhorst et al, 2005; Kierszniowska et al, 2009; Staubach and Hanisch, 2011; Stuermer, 2011).…”