Biomembranes Flashcards
What are the basic components of bio membrane
Lipids Sterols and protiens
What does amphipathicity do
Phospholipis spontaneoutly form lipid bilayers in aqueous solution where the properties of the fatty acids confer properties on bilayers
What does saturated mean
No double bonds
What does unsaturated mean
One double bond
What does polyunsaturated mean
More than one double bond
What changes melting point
Increases with chain length decreases with increasing unsaturation
What is a fatty acid
Long hydrocarbon chain attached to a polar carboxyl head group
What are properties of biomemembranes
- Fluid
- Closed compartments
3, Semi permeable - Asymmetric
What makes a membrane more fluid
Increase in double bonds
Shorter fatty acids
What effects membrane fludity
Steriods
Protiens
Temperature if you are cold blooded
Double bonds
Fatty acid length
How can you measure flourence recovery
You bleache a cwertain area the flourcences from outside migrate in and the bleached will start to migrate out indirect measure on fluid things are
What makes fluidit slower
Diffusion is 10 x slower in plasma membranes that contain protiens than pure bilayers
What does cytosolic face mean for plasma membrane
Internal face
What does cytosolic face mean for vesicle membrane
External face
Where is the exoplasmic face
always facing the inside
What can pass through
Small uncharged or hydrophobic molecules pass freely
What cant pass through
Large hydrophillic or charged molecules
Where are carbohydrates found
Exclusively on the exoplasmic face