BIO E105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Lipid Bilayer, Passive Transport, Osmosis

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Osmosis: water moves quickly across lipid bilayers. The movement of water is a special case of diffusion called osmosis: water moves from regions of low solute concentration to regions of high solute concentration. This movement dilutes the higher concentration, thus equalizing the concentration on both sides of the bilayer: osmosis only occurs across a selectively permeable membrane. The selective permeability of the lipid bilayer and the specificity of the proteins involved in passive transport and active transport enable cells to create an internal environment that is much different from the external one. Membrane proteins: integral membrane proteins can span a membrane, with segments facing both its interior and exterior surfaces. Integral proteins that span the membrane are called transmembrane proteins. These proteins are involved in the transport of selected ions and molecules across the plasma membrane. Transmembrane proteins can therefore affect membrane permeability: peripheral proteins are found only on one side of the membrane.

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