BIOS 242 Biological Membranes

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BIOS 242 Biological Membranes

  • lipid bilayer
  • –Answer double-layered sheet that forms the core of nearly all cell mem- branes

  • freeze fracture electron microscopy
  • –Answer provides a way of visualizing the interior of cell membranes

  • Phosphoglycerides
  • –Answer Phospholipids with a glycerol backbone

  • unsaturated fatty acid
  • –Answer A fatty acid possessing one or more double bonds between the carbons in the hydrocarbon tail.Such bonding reduces the number of hydrogen atoms attached to the carbon skeleton.

  • sphingolipid
  • –Answer A lipid containing a sphingosine or sphingoid backbone bound to fatty acid tails; includes ceramide, sphingomyelins, glycosphingolipids, and ganglio- sides

  • ceramide
  • –Answer sphingosine + fatty acid

  • cerebroside
  • –Answer A sphingolipid containing a sugar as a polar head group

  • ganglioside
  • –Answer A sphingolipid with a polar head group containing an oligosaccha- ride carbohydrate

  • integral membrane protein 1 / 2

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–Answer A protein embedded in the lipid bilayer of a cell. These are typicallly cell surface receptors, channels, or pumps.

  • peripheral membrane protein
  • –Answer A protein that is associated with the plasma membrane of a cell, but that is not embedded in the lipid bilayer.

  • lipid anchored proteins
  • –Answer a protein covalently attached to a phospholipid or fatty acid embedded in the bilayer

  • GPI (glycosylphosphatidyl inositol) linked protein
  • –Answer A protein that is anchored in a membrane via a covalently linked glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) group

  • Saturated fatty acid
  • –Answer A fatty acid in which all carbons in the hydrocarbon tail are connected by single bonds, thus maximizing the number of hydrogen atoms that can attach to the carbon skeleton.

  • Gorter and Grendel
  • –Answer conducted experiments that suggested the lipid bilayer model

  • Singer and Nicolson
  • –Answer Proposed that membrane proteins are dispersed and individually inserted into the phospholipid bilayer

  • fluid mosaic model
  • –Answer The currently accepted model of cell membrane structure, which envisions the membrane as a mosaic of individually inserted protein mole- cules drifting laterally in a fluid bilayer of phospholipids.

  • Phospholipids
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SUBSCRIBE BIOS 242 Biological Membranes 1. lipid bilayer –Answer double-layered sheet that forms the core of nearly all cell mem- branes 2. freeze fracture electron microscopy –Answer provides ...

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