exam 4 Flashcards
Major component of plasma membranes
glycerophospholipids
parts of lipids
space filling hydrocarbon tail kinks glycerol phosphate coline
Sphingolipids
no kink, bent over head
sphingomyelin
cerebrosides and gangliosides
two cerebrosides
galactocerebrosides
glucocerebrosides
gangliosides
most complex sphingolipid
can act ac receptors
lots in brain
cholesterol
slips between lipids
amphiphilic
more cholesterol more rigidity
fluidity and melting point
above Tm is more fluid than below
transverse vs lateral
transverse is flipping and flopping inner to outter and is slower than lateral
saturation and fluidity
more double bonds means more unsaturation means more fluid because less tighlty packed
lenght and fluidity
longer tails less fluid
cholesterol and fluidity
more means less fluid
integral membrane proteins
detergent to separate
peripheral membrane proteins
loosely associated so removed via pH or salt change
3 typs of lipid anchors
prenylation
fatty acytalated
GPI
prenylation
iso-prenoid attatched to Rab proteins to be activated at membrane
rab proteins
just taxi proteins that mediate attachment to motor proteins
myristolation
type of fatty acid lipid anchor prevalent in HIV protein
Palmatic acid
lipid acnchor attached to cystein with thioseter linkage
GPI
largest most complexe lipid anchor
can act as a receptor for signalling
Fluid mosaic model
membrane proteins as icebergs floating in sea of lipids
lipid asymmetry
inner vs outter leaflet differences maintained by flippases
PS is example
lipid rafts
membrane microdomains with lots of cholesterol and bound proteins important for signalling
molecules that can cross unaided
gases
small polar
super small non polar
molecule that need help
charged
large uncharged
most biologicaliy important things