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Lipids, Membranes, and Membrane Transport

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True or false: The fatty acid attached to C2 is often saturated?   FALSE: often unsaturated  
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All biological membranes are composed of what?   Lipids  
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True or false: Membrane compositions are the same   FALSE: Membrane composition varies. Ex. Phospholipids are made of 60 red blood cell while cholesterol is made of 23  
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Are lipids soluble in water?   NO  
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Micelles   50-100 lipid molecules in circle with polar heads facing out  
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What doesmulsifying agents do?   segregate hydrophobic compounds in micelle interior, allowing them to be dispersed in water as an emulsion  
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Describe a Bilayer Membrane?   polar heads face water and nonpolar hydrocarbon tails entwining together  
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How does lipid bilayers behave like?   two-dimensional fluids  
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Why are lipids highly mobile?   They rotate rapidly about lipid axis; diffuse rapidly in the membrane's plane; 3) Flip flow slowly  
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Flippase   enzyme that insert the lipid into the faces of the membranes.  
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Why is membrane fluidity important?   vital for cellular functions; such as endocytosis, exocytosis  
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At normal temperatures, cells membranes are fluid r solid?   Fluid!  
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Why is cooling cells to 0-4 C bad?   because the cell crystalize so no fluidity in the membrane. Many cellular functions slows or halt.  
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What three strategies are use to regulate membrane fluidity   1) Alter length of lipid tails (all) 2) Alter saturation of lipid tails (all) 3)cholesterol (animals)  
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As the fatty acid length increases, does it fluidity increase or decrease?   Decrease  
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Which have more fluid, short fatty acid or long fatty acid?   SHORT - the have lower melting point.  
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Which have more fluid, saturated or unsaturated fatty acids?   Unsaturated - they have lower melting points.  
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What does cholesterol do to membrane?   make it less fluid and less permeable, keep the membrane more fluid at lower temp.  
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Are lipids distributed symmetrically in membranes?   No, they are assymetrically distributed  
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How much percent of protein does cellular membrane contain?   As much as 70%  
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Name the kinds of protein in the membrane?   Peripheral membrane protein; Integral membrane proteins  
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Peripheral membrane proteins   weakly anchor into the membrane  
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Integral membrane proteins   Strongly anchored to the membrane  
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