2b - Cell Membrane Transport Flashcards
What goes in and out of the cell?
In - food
Out - waste
The property of the cell membrane that allows some materials to pass and prevents others from passing.
Differentially (Selectively) Permeable
Factors that determine how a substance may be transported across a plasma membrane:
– Size
– Polar or Nonpolar
– charge
Movement of molecules across membrane from high to low concentration without the need for energy input
Passive diffusion
- 2nd Law of Thermodynamics
- governs biological systems
– universe tends towards disorder
(entropy)
PASSIVE DIFFUSION
Net movement of passive diffusion
High concentration to low concentration
What kind of molecules are able to
diffuse across a phospholipid bilayer
at significant rates by using passive
diffusion.
Small and hydrophobic molecules
Why is diffusion important to cells
and humans?
• Cell respiration
• Alveoli of lungs
• Capillaries
• Red Blood Cell
is a form of energy generated by the movement of protons (H⁺ ions) across a membrane.
Proton motive force
How PMF is generated
In mitochondria (for cellular respiration) or chloroplasts (for photosynthesis), electrons are transferred through a series of proteins embedded in the inner mitochondrial membrane or thylakoid membrane. As electrons move through the ETC, energy released from these redox reactions is used to pump protons from the mitochondrial matrix into the intermembrane space or from the stroma into the thylakoid lumen. This creates a proton gradient.
Example of molecules that pass through protein channels
• Ions
(Na+, K+, Cl-)
• Sugars (Glucose)
• Amino Acids
• Small water soluble molecules
• Water (faster rate)
- Diffusion through protein channels which do not interact with hydrophobic interior
– For biological mol unable to dissolve in hydrophobic interior
– no energy needed
Facilitated diffusion
facilitated=
With help
Open channel=
Fast transport
Aids the passage of materials
Concentration gradient
Transport proteins
bind specific molecules, undergo conformational change to release molecule
Carrier protein
Example of Carrier protein
Glucose transporters
- form open pores for free diffusion
- found in gap junctions
Channel protein
proteins that facilitate the movement of glucose across cell membranes.
Glucose transporters
Molecules will randomly move through the pores
in ___
Proteins.
Channel protein
Some ___ proteins do not extend
through the membrane. Instead, they bond and drag molecules
through the lipid bilayer and release
them on the opposite side
Carrier
Other __ proteins change shape to move materials across the cell
membrane
Carrier
is rate limited, by the number of
proteins channels/carriers present in the membrane.
Facilitated diffusion
What are the molecules allowed by the channel proteins to pass across the plasma membrane by facilitated diffusion
ions, small solutes, and water
What are the molecules allowed by the carrier proteins to pass across the plasma membrane by facilitated diffusion
Glucose and amino acids
Most cells, including erythrocytes, are exposed to ____ ___ concentrations that are higher than those inside the cell, so facilitated diffusion results in the net inward transport of glucose.
extracellular glucose concentration
• provide corridors allowing water
molecules to cross the membrane.
• Allow for fast transport
• water channel proteins make possible massive amounts of diffusion
Aquaporins
Aquaporins are protein pores used during ___
Osmosis