Cell Membranes Flashcards

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Intracellular

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Inside the cell

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Extracellular

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Everything outside the cell

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Intersitial

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Is another term for outside the cell.

-Especially used when many cells are together

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What makes up the membrane of a cell?

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Phospholipids are the basic structure of a membrane.

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Phospholipid Bylayer

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Two layers of phospholipids with the lipid tails facing each other.

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Why is Cholesterol a necessary component of the Cell Membrane?

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  • It helps loosen the membrane

- Maintains membrane fluidity and strength

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How do proteins help the membrane?

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They make the membrane functional.

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Transport Proteins

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Transports stuff across the cell membrane

  • Inside to outside and outside to inside
  • very specific, they will only let one thing through
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Receptor Proteins

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A signaling molecule binds to the receptor outside the cell membrane and on the other side the signal is taken and does something within the cell membrane.
-Very specific

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Membrane Bound Enzyme

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Help carry out chemical reactions within or without the cell membrane.

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Recognition Proteins

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It is often a Glycoprotein

  • they tag on cells like a finger print saying I am this kind of cell.
  • So cells know what kind of cell it is.
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Cell Adhesion Molecules

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Hold cells together

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Tight Junctions

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Holding the cell membranes together, so tight that no extracellular fluid can get through.

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Desmosomes (Spot or Adhering Junctions)

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Proteins hold the cell together with rivets, so extracellular fluid can slip between the membranes.

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Gap Junctions

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Form a channel between membranes.

  • Specialized form of cell communication.
  • The extracellular fluid passed through
  • -All the cells of the heart are linked this way.
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Membrane Transport

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Moving things across the membrane.

  • Membranes are semi-permeable
  • -Membranes will let somethings through easily, some with difficulty, and some not at all.
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Factors Effecting Membrane Permeability

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Solubility- (fat solubility) if it is fat soluble it can slip across (oxygen)
Size- If it is to big it can’t go through. It needs to be smaller.
–If it is unsaturated phopholipids it can have more pass through them than saturated.

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Membrane transport based on passive forces mean

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No energy needed to move it across the membrane.

  • Diffusion
  • Osmosis
  • Electrical
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Diffusion

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Random movement of particles

  • Movement of a solute from an area of high concentration to an area of lower concentration
  • Until they reach equilibrium
  • The concentration difference/gradient is what drives diffusion.
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Simple Diffusion

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Going through the membrane

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Facilitated Diffusion

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Going through proteins, so they can slip through. No energy needed.

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What is the diffusion rate driven by?

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The gradient

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Factors affecting net rate of diffusion

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  • Concentration Gradient
  • Temperature
  • Area
  • Size
  • Distance
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Concentration Gradient on diffusion rate

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Bigger concentration gradient faster it goes through. Lower concentration gradient slower it goes through.

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Temperature on diffusion rate

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Higher temperature, higher diffusion rate. Lower temperature lower diffusion rate.

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Area on diffusion rate

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The space they have to diffuse. Bigger area faster rate of diffusion, smaller area slower rate of diffusion.

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Size on diffusion rate

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The bigger something is the slower the diffusion rate will be.

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Distance on diffusion rate

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How far something has to travel. The greater the distance the slower the rate of diffusion.

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Osmosis

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The Movement of Water

  • Water molecules move from areas of low solute concentration to areas of high solute concentration.
  • The solute is to big to move, so the water moves through instead to equalize the solution.
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Osmotic Pressure/Potential

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To move water molecules.

-The water is moving over to the high concentration to dilute the solution bringing them to equilibrium.

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Aquaporins

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Protein channel to let water through.

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Tonicity

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The concentration of a solution compares to what is inside your cell.

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Isotonic Solution

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This solution is the same tonicity as your cells.

-No osmotic pressure created

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Hypertonic Solution

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The solution has a higher concentration than the cell.

  • Through osmosis the water will move out of the cell to create equilibrium.
  • Causing the cell to crenate (shrink)
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Hypotonic Solution

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The solution has a lower concentration than the cell.

  • Water will be drawn into the cell. Making the cell swell.
  • If the difference is big enough it will cause the cell to burst. (Lyse/Lysis)
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Electrical (membrane transport)

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Passive movement requiring no energy.

  • the movement of ions.
  • difference in charges between 2 areas produces an electrical gradient that passively causes movement.
  • the forces of same charges trying to spread out will make it pass through the cell membrane.
  • -more powerful than something without a charge in diffusion.
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Electrochemical Gradient

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  • All cells have one
  • They all have different amounts of ions on the outside and inside.
  • Some cells use this to do what they do.
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Membrane Transport based on Active Processes

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  • Molecules which are impermeable because the are large, poorly lipid soluble.
  • Going against a concentration gradient
  • Active Transport–Pumps
  • Bulk Transport
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Active Transport– Pumps

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  • Proteins that pump/push something through using energy to do it.
  • Moving something across/against the concentration gradient.
  • Very helpful in moving against the concentration gradient.
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What is a common protein pump?

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Na+/K+ pump

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Na+/K+ Pump

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Always pumps 3 Na+ out of the cell and pumps 2 K+ into the cell.

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What are the 3 Kinds of Bulk Transport?

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Phagocytosis
Pinocytosis
Receptor-Mediated Endocytosis

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Phagocytosis

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The Membrane reaches out and grabs what it needs and closes around it pulling the vesicle into the cell.
-Big items normally

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Pinocytosis

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The Membrane dimples in around what it needs and comes together and brings it into the cell.

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Receptor-Mediate Endocytosis

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Receptors tell the cell to bring something in.

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Endocytosis

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To bring into the cell.

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Exocytosis

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Sending something out of the cell.

-Vesicles fuse to the membrane and the membrane opens and dumps what is in it outside the cell.