BIOL 112 Lecture Notes - Sucrose, Lipid Bilayer, Cell Membrane
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17 Apr 2012
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Cellular Membranes
Membrane Structure
• leaflet - describes one layer of the bilayer
Cholesterol - inside lipid bilayer
• solidifies the cell membrane.
• decreases fluidity
Bilayer
• self assembles since it is energetically favourable
• self assemble into a cell

Transmembrane Proteins:
• have hydrophobic regions of amino acids
• cross phospholipid bilayer
• have a specific orientation - 2 different faces on each side of membrane
bilayer