BIOL-2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Wound Healing, Cytokinesis, Lysosome

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The cellular basis of life: cells are the structural units of all living things, and the human body has up to 50 to 100 trillion of them. Most membrane phospholipids are unsaturated, and increase their membrane fluidity: glycolipids are lipids with attached sugar groups. They are found on the outer plasma membrane surface, and account for about 5% of total membrane lipids. Their sugar groups make that end of the glycolipid molecule polar, whereas the fatty acid tails are nonpolar: a cell"s plasma membrane bristles with proteins that allow it to communicate with its environment. Proteins make up about half of the plasma membrane by mass and are responsible for most of the specialized membrane functions. the: integral proteins are firmly into inserted lipid bilayer. Most are transmembrane proteins that span the entire membrane and protrude on both sides. Some are involved with transport, and cluster together to form channels through which small, water-soluble molecules can move.

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