Membranes

Membrane Mechanisms

Fluid Mosaic Structure

Membrane Proteins

Membrane Lipids

Diffusion

Osmosis

Facilitated Diffusion

Concentration Gradient

Amphipathic Proteins

Amphipathic Lipids

Fluidity

Most lipids and proteins are able to shift sideways

Some lipids flip-flop to the other side of the membrane

Phospholipids yeet around and proteins shuffle

Factors affecting fluidity

saturation of hydrocarbon tails

cholesterol within cell membranes

a layer of phospholipids

Proteins bobbing in the phospholipids layer

Integral proteins

Peripheral proteins

Transmembrane proteins

Partially-penetrating-the-membrane proteins

Hydrophilic channels

Loosely-bound to the surface of membrane

On the Cytoplasm side: bound to cytoskeleton

On the extracellular side: materials outside the cell

Requires no ATP because molecules naturally want to find equilibrium

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Small molecules of gas can flow through membrane and squeeze through the lipid bilayer

The passive diffusion of water molecules across the membrane in order to try and reach equilibrium

Transport proteins help move substances

Still requires no ATP

Can be a protein channel where the substance moves straight through

Can be a "pac-man" like shape wher the molecule enters the opening of a protein and once in the middle the other side opens

When water is in a sugar solution, the water molecules cluster around the sugar molecules in order to dissolve the sugar

Represents the need for water to balance out the ratio of sugar molecules on both sides of the membrane

Osmoregulation regulates the amount of the solution in the cell and is vital for the cell's health

The direction a molecule takes in order to satisfy equilibrium

Movement from more concentrated to less concentrated

Occurs naturally without ATP

Each substance reacts in it's own environment regardless of other substances, everything will go down their own concentration gradient

Selective permeability controls what enters and leaves the lipid bilayer

When temperature decreases the lipid's movement decreases and can even solidify

However if lipids are moving too much the the proteins cannot carry out their function and become inactive

Evolution

Organisms can evolve to survive in their temperatures since the number of unsaturated vs. saturated fats in their lipid bilayers can adapt.

For example, an animal that in the cold has lots of unsaturated lipids in its bilayer so it is still fluid even if it moves slower