BIOL 108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lipid Bilayer, Passive Transport, Facilitated Diffusion

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Cells must import nutrients and export wastes. The cell membrane is (cid:862)se(cid:373)iper(cid:373)ea(cid:271)le. (cid:863) it controls the passage of substances in and out of the cell. The means used to move substances across membranes depends on two factors: the chemical nature of the solute (hydrophilic or hydrophobic), the relative concentrations of the solute on the two sides of the membrane (the concentration gradient). A phospholipid bilayer is the base fabric of all biological membranes. The hydrophilic (cid:862)heads(cid:863) of the phospholipids face out toward the aqueous surroundings, and the h(cid:455)dropho(cid:271)i(cid:272) (cid:862)tails(cid:863) face in, forming the core of the membrane. Many proteins are also embedded in membranes, and may function as: transport proteins, receptors, enzymes. Again, the means of transport of a molecule or ion depends on two factors: the chemical nature of the molecule/ion. The hydrocarbon core of the phospholipid bilayer (cid:894)the (cid:862)tails(cid:863)(cid:895: allows direct passage of small hydrophobic species, for example o2, co2.

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