Membrane Transport Flashcards
Define Isotonic? (Healthy size cell)
Solute concentration(osmotic pressure) is the same inside and outside the cell.
Define Hypotonic.(Very swollen cell)
Solute concentration (osmotic pressure) is greater inside the cell than outside the cell.
Define hypertonic.(“Dehydrated” looking cell)
Solute concentration(osmotic pressure) is lower in the cell than outside the cell.
What energy drives diffusion? (No barriers)
Diffusion occurs due to the inherent, kinetic energy of molecules and the potential energy stored in a concentration gradient.
Is osmosis diffusion of water? (P Bio 375)
NO!
Define osmosis.
The flow of water across a water permeable membrane toward a region of higher solute concentration.
What differs diffusion from osmosis?
Diffusion depends upon a concentration gradient. Osmosis depends on osmotic pressure; the number of solute particles. (Neither their size, charge state, nor hydrophilicity have effect of the osmotic pressure of the system.)
Define Aquaporins.
Transmembrane proteins that form water channels.
Define osmolarity and osmolality.
Osmolarity: Number of particles of solute per liter of water.
Osmolality: Number of particles of solute per kilogram of water.
Osmotic flow of water is through 1.__________. Water flows 2.____ an osmotic gradient.
- Aquaporins
- Up
Define osmotic pressure.
A colligative property: it depends on the number of particles of solute, but not the nature of the particles.
The pressure that must be applied to oppose osmosis.
Why is osmotic pressure important for hydrostatic pressure?
Osmotic pressure counteracts hydrostatic pressure to prevent fluid from leaving the capillaries.
Define colloid osmotic pressure (π)
Is the osmotic pressure due to the plasma proteins within the capillary, pulls fluid into the capillary.
Define hydrostatic pressure. (Pʜ)
Pressure that forces fluid out of the capillary.
Which pressure has more strength generally? Hydrostatic pressure (Pʜ) or Colloid osmotic pressure (pi)
Hydrostatic pressure.
This means about 3L of fluid per day leaves the capillaries.
This is returned to the circulatory system as lymph.
Define tonicity.
The relative level of non-penetrating solutes in a fluid in which cells are being bathed.(in Lec)
Or
The capability of a solution to modify the volume of cells by altering their water content .(Google)
The ability of extracellular solution to make water move into or out of a cell by osmosis . (Google)
Define channel. What are common types?
A water filled hole, transmembrane protein(s). Aquaporins, and ion channels, both gated and ungated,
What are the two main properties of ion channels. Name all ions important for this class(4). Name the types of gated channels(5).
- Selectivity: What type of ion does through.
Ex. Na+, K+, Ca++, Cl- - Gating: What opens or closes the channel.
Ex. Ungated channel = Leak channel, voltage gated-channel, ligand gated = chemically gated, mechanically gated channel, temperature gated channel.
What’s the difference between passive and active transport.
Active requires ATP (directly or indirectly).
Passive requires only a gradient (being gated doesn’t mean it needs ATP!)
Define what a Carrier Protein is.
Carrier proteins have two confirmations that expose the binding site to either the extracellular fluid or the intracellular fluid. They are NOT a continuous pore like a channel. (Also called transporter/symporter)
What is the GLUT protein responsible for?
It is a glucose transporter(carrier protein!) that is responsible for the facilitated diffusion of glucose. (Uses facilitated diffusion)
Define facilitated diffusion.
A passive process that depends only on the concentration gradient. Requires aid of membrane protein to carry out the diffusion. (Ex. H2O & Aquaporins, Glucose and GLUT protein.)
Define primary active transport. (Carrier protein still)
Utilizing ATP energy in order to change the conformation of the carrier protein.
Ex. Na+/K+-ATPase!
What are 3 common examples of Primary active transport ATP-ases?
- Na+/K+-ATPase (sodium potassium pump): uses ATP hydrolysis to pump 3 Na+ ions out of the cell and 2 K+ ions into the cell for each round of transport.
- Ca++-ATPase: pumps Ca++ out of cytosol.
- H+/K+-ATPase: proton pump involved in acid secretion in the stomach.