BIO206H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Lipid Bilayer, Alpha Helix, Cytosol

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The new membrane assembles there is exported to other membranes. This happens when by membrane budding and fusion. Bits of the bilayer pinch off from the er to form small spheres called vesicles which then become incorporated into another membrane (ex. plasma membrane) by fusing with it. The orientation of the bilayer relative to the cytosol is preserved during vesicle formation and fusion. The cytosolic face is always adjacent to the cytosol, while the noncytosolic face is exposed to the cell exterior or the interior space of an organelle. Membrane proteins not only transport particular nutrients, metabolites and ions across the lipid bilayer; they serve many other functions. Different ways membrane proteins associate with the lipid bilayer (figure 11-21): many extend through the bilayer with part of their mass on either side. These transmembrane proteins have both hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions. Their hydrophobic regions lie in the interior of the bilayer nestled against the hydrophobic tails of the lipids.

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