BCH2011 Chapter Notes -C-Terminus, Bacteriorhodopsin, Glycophorin

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Phospholipids form a bilayer in which the nonpolar regions of the lipid molecules in each layer face the core of the bilayer and their polar head groups face outward, interacting with the aqueous phase on either side. Proteins are embedded in this bilayer sheet, held by hydrophobic interactions between the membrane lipids and hydrophobic domains in the proteins. Some proteins protrude from only one side of the membrane; others have domains exposed on both sides. The orientation of proteins in the bilayer is asymmetric, giving the membrane sideness": the protein domains exposed on one side of the bilayer are different from those exposed on the other side, reflecting functional symmetry. The membrane mosaic is fluid because most of the interactions among its components are noncovalent, leaving individual lipid and protein molecules free to move laterally in the plane of the membrane.

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