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Exam 3 Flashcards

1
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Lipids are what?

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Amphiphilic (hydrophilic and hyrdrophobic)

Make up 50% of membranes

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What are the major lipids?

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Phosphoglycerides, sphingolipids, and sterols

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3
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Sphingomyelin is derived from?

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Sphingosine

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4
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The four phospholipids except sphingomyelin are derived from?

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Glycerol

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5
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Cholesterol is?

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A rigid planar sterol

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6
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Hydrophilic groups can?

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Hydrogen bond with water but hydrophobic groups cannot

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7
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Amphiphilic molecules will spontaneously?

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Form micelles or lipid bilayers in water

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8
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Caveolae are?

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A lipid raft that does endocytosis

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9
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Lipid rafts are found in?

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The lipid bilayer/membrane

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10
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Lipid droplets are what?

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Organelles that store fatty acids in a monolayer of phospholipid

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11
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Glycolipids are assembled where?

Where are they found?

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Assembled in the Golgi and delivered to membrane

Found on the non-cytosolic surface of lipid bilayers(membranes)

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12
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Membrane proteins anchor to a membrane through?

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Either a fatty acid chain or a prenyl group attaching through amide linkage or thioester linkage to cysteine

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13
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Transmembrane domains contain?

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Mainly non polar amino acids

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14
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Transmembrane proteins often contain?

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Intrachain disulfide bonds and can be glycosylated

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15
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Glycocalyx are used for?

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Cell recognition purposes

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16
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What can stain the membrane?

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Carbohydrate binding proteins called lectins or ruthenium red

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17
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Spectrin does what?

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Provides membrane with shape and structural integrity

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18
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Which of the following lipids has a net negative charge at physiological pH?

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Phosphatidylserine

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19
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What is the carbohydrate layer on the outer surface of cells called?

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Glycocalyx

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20
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What type of cell:cell junction would you expect to find at the basal plasma membrane of epithelial cells, connecting them to the basal lamina?

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Hemidesmosomes

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21
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Artificial phospholipid bilayer vesicle formed from an aqueous suspension of phospholipid molecules

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Liposome

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22
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Small region of the plasma membrane enriched in sphingolipids cholesterol

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Lipid raft

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23
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Any glycolipid having one or more sialic acid residues in its structure; especially abundant in the plasma membranes of nerve cells

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Ganglioside

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24
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Having both hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions, as in a phospholipid or a detergent molecule

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Amphiphilic

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25
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The main type of phospholipid in animal cell membranes, with two fatty acids and a polar head group attached to a three carbon glycerol backbone

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Phosphoglyceride

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26
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Lipid molecule with a characteristic four ring steroid structure that is an important component of the plasma membranes of animal cells

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Cholesterol

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27
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Protein that binds tightly to a specific sugar

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Lectin

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28
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The outer coat of a eukaryotic cell, composed of oligosaccharides linked to intrinsic plasma membrane glycoproteins and glycolipids, as well as proteins that have been secreted and reabsorbed onto the cell surface

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Carbohydrate layer

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29
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Abundant protein associated with the cytosolic side of the plasma membrane in red blood cells, forming a rigid network that supports the membrane

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Spectrin

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30
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Protein whose polypeptide chain crosses the lipid bilayer more than once

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Multipass transmembrane protein

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31
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Pigmented protein found in the plasma membrane of Halobacterium halobium, where it pumps protons out of the cell in response to light

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Bacteriorhodopsin

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32
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The complicated cytoskeletal network in the cytosol just beneath the plasma membrane

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Cortex

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33
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Type of lipid linkage, formed as proteins pass through the endoplasmic reticulum, by which some proteins are attached to the noncytosolic surface of the membrane

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Glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor

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34
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An aqueous pore in a lipid membrane, with walls made of protein, through which selected ions or molecules can pass

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Channel

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35
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The movement of a small molecule or ion across a membrane due to a difference in concentration or electrical charge

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Passive transport

36
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General term for a membrane embedded protein that serves as a carrier of ions or small molecules from one side of the membrane to the other

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Membrane transport protein

37
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Movement of a molecule across a membrane that is driven by ATP hydrolysis or other form of metabolic energy

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Active transport

38
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Driving force for ion movement that is due to differences in ion concentration and electrical charge on either side of the membrane

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Electrochemical gradient

39
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Large superfamily of membrane transport proteins that use the energy of ATP hydrolysis to transfer peptides and a variety of small molecules across membranes

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ABC transporter

40
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Type of ABC transporter protein that can pump hydrophobic drugs out of the cytoplasm of eukaryotic cells

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Multidrug resistance protein

41
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Membrane carrier protein that transports two different ions or small molecules across a membrane in opposite directions, either simultaneously or in sequence

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Antiporter

42
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Transport of solutes across an epithelium, by means of membrane transport proteins in the apical and basal surfaces of the epithelial cells

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Transcellular transport

43
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Carrier protein that transports two types of solute across the membrane in the same direction

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Symporter

44
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The adjustment in sensitivity of a cell or organism following repeated stimulation that allows a response even when there is a high background level of stimulation

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Adaptation

45
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The long lasting increase in the sensitivity of certain synapses in the hippocampus that is induced by a short burst of repetitive firing in the presynaptic neurons

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Long term potentiation

46
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Rapid, transient, self propagating electrical signal in the plasma membrane of a cell such as a neuron or muscle cell: a nerve impulse

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Action potential

47
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Quantitative expression that relates the equilibrium ratio of concentrations of an ion on either side of a permeable membrane to the voltage difference across the membrane

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Nernst equation

48
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A photosensitive ion channel that opens in response to light

A

Channelrhodopsin

49
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Voltage difference across a membrane due to the slight excess of positive ions on one side and of negative ions on the other

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Membrane potential

50
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General term for a membrane protein that selectively allows cations such as Na+ to cross a membrane in response to changes in membrane potential

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Voltage gated cation channel

51
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That part of an ion channel structure that determines which ions it can transport

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Selectivity filter

52
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Insulating layer of specialized cell membrane wrapped around vertebrate axons

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Myelin sheath

53
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A K+ transporting ion channel in the plasma membrane of animal cells that remains open even in a resting cell

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K+ leak channel

54
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Long, thin nerve cell process capable of rapidly conducting nerve impulses over long distances so as to deliver signals to other cells

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Axon

55
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Transmembrane protein complex that forms a water filled channel across the lipid bilateral through which specific inorganic ions can diffuse down their electrochemical gradients

A

Ion channel

56
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Specialized junction between a nerve cell and another cell, across which the nerve impulse is transferred, usually by a neurotransmitter, which is secreted by the nerve cell and diffuses to the target cell

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Synapse

57
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Small signaling molecule such as acetylcholine, glutamate, GABA, or glycine, secreted by a nerve cell at a chemical synapse to signal to the post-synaptic cell

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Neurotransmitter

58
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Technique in which the tip of a small glass electrode is sealed onto an area of cell membrane, thereby making it possible to record the flow of current through individual ion channels

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Patch-clamp recording

59
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Understand the basic structure, composition, and characteristics of lipid bilayers/membranes (phospholipids, glycolipids, sphingolipids, cholesterol)

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Lipids are amphiphilic, the major lipids are phosphoglycerides
Lipids make up 50% of membranes
Glycolipids are found in monolayers facing away from the cytosol
Cholesterol is distributed roughly equally between both monolayers

60
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Understand what it means for a lipid bilayer to be asymmetrical

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The outside face of membrane is always different from the inner face of membrane

61
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Know what a lipid raft is

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Formed from a combination of weak protein-protein, protein-lipid, and lipid-lipid interactions to form a lipid raft in the membrane

62
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Know what liposomes are

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Synthetic lipid bilayers

63
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Hydropathy plots show what?

A

Hydrophobicity of amino acids thus identifying transmembrane a-helical domains of membrane proteins

64
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Basic structure of all cellular membranes include what?

A

Lipid molecules and membrane associated proteins

65
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The most abundant membrane lipids are what?

A

Phospholipids

66
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What are phospholipids composed of?

A

A polar head group and two hydrophobic hydrocarbon tails

67
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The nonpolar tails of phospholipids vary in their what?

A

Length

68
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What is a rigid structure attached to a polar hydroxyl head group and short nonpolar hydrocarbon tail?

A

Cholesterol

69
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What packs in between phospholipids close to the nonpolar head groups?

A

Cholesterol

70
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Cholesterol has an impact on what property of the lipid bilayer?

A

The permeability-barrier properties of the bilayer

71
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Cholesterol makes the bilayer less permeable to what?

A

Small water soluble molecules

72
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Does cholesterol change the fluid properties of the membrane?

A

No

73
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Which are thinner: membranes composed of unsaturated phospholipids or membranes composed of saturated phospholipids?

A

Unsaturated phospholipids

74
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Lipids rotate on their what?

A

Axis

75
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Lipids exchange positions with neighboring lipids by what?

A

Lateral diffusion

76
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Lipids molecules in the plasma membrane associate in specialized lipid sub domains referred to as what?

A

Lipid rafts

77
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What regions are enriched with sphingolipids and cholesterol and are involved in organizing membrane proteins?

A

Lipid rafts

78
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What are sugar modified lipids?

A

Glycolipids

79
Q

What are localized to the outer leaflet of the plasma membrane bilayer?

A

Glycolipids

80
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Assymetry is because sugar addition occurs only within the lumen of the what?

A

ER/Golgi

81
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Glycolipids make up how much of all plasma membrane lipids?

A

-5%

82
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What localized only to the inner leaflet of a plasma membrane?

A

Phosphotidylserine

83
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What kind of proteins span the membrane at least once to generate domains that localized to both sides of the membrane?

A

Transmembrane proteins

84
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What proteins pass through the membrane as either an amphipathic alpha-helix or a beta-sheet?

A

Transmembrane proteins

85
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What types of proteins are typically localized to the cytosolic side of the plasma membrane?

A

Lipid anchors

86
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What are reversible; converting a membrane bound protein into a soluble cytosolic one?

A

Lipid modifications

87
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Most membrane proteins span the lipid bilayer as what?

A

Alpha helices

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