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Cell and Tissue Physiology, Membrane Potential - Coggle Diagram
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Membrane Potential
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Sphingolipids
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Found in nervous system, myelin sheaths (also outside but in less quantity)
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Membrane fluidity
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Fluidity buffer
Cholesterol, which at low temperatures increases fluidity by decreasing packing and at high temperatures decreases fluidity by increasing interactions
As more cholesterol is added at higher temperatures, more interactions occur and there is less fluidity, although it still increases with temperature.
Membranes require SOME fluidity so that ions amd molecules can diffuse across, but not too much to have leakage and rendering it useless
Membrane asymmetry
Where a monolayer of a membrane is not the same as the other layer, as in the lipid raft and the plasma membrane (not the case in teh ER though)
Sometimes this is required, to serve different functions at each layer
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The fluid mosaic model
The phosphlipid bilayer is the fluid (it iS Fluid), and hte mosaic is the proteins, carbohydrates and lipids that are embedded
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Lipid rafts
The fluid mosaic model describes the surface diversity of the cell membrane, but does not describe the spatial diversty
There are sections/regions of the plasma membrane called lipid rafts, where there is longer phospholipids and tighter packing which causes a thicker region than surrounding
This region is for longer proteins, like signal transduction proteins, which requier the fatter membrane to have more interactions for stabiility.
It also provides a means for vesicle formation, as these areas are atightly packed and can contain essential proteins that are required for vesible formation
The lipid raft is not very fluid (due to tight packening) but the surrouding is, allowing for its movement -- althoguht some like the signal transduction do not move.