BIOL 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Brownian Motion, Alpha Helix, Passive Transport

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Membranes are very luid and allow proteins to interact with each other. Said proteins are integrated into the membrane via 1 or more alpha helices. If all of the amino acids making up the helix are hydrophobic, this is ideal, as all of the side chains are poining outwards and interact with lipids. All the hydrogen bonds the alpha helix needs are along the helical cylinder. When proteins are inserted into membranes, they become asymmetrical, b/c membrane proteins can only move laterally, which means the side of the protein poining outwards never changes, it just moves along the plane of the membrane like a phospholipid. Spliing of membranes occurs under freeze fractures, in which phospholipids ightly bind to. H2o, but are broken as lipids are only held together by vdw forces, which are very weak. Gases like o2 and small polar molecules can pass membranes freely, but only some larger molecules and no ions can pass through them.

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