Kenyon College -- Department of Biology
Biology 113 
Fall 2001 

Lecture outline 11
9/19/01 

Membrane structure and function

  • membrane composition
    • the phospholipid bilayer
    • membrane fluidity
      • cholesterol
      • temperature
      • diffusion of lipids
    • membrane proteins
      • integral
      • peripheral
      • asymmetry of membrane proteins
      • how fixed are proteins?
        • experimental evidence
        • localization of membrane proteins in signaling systems
    • carbohydrates.
The endomembrane system.
  • Importance of protein localization (example from cell signaling)
  • Fates of synthesized proteins
    • cytoplasm
    • ER

Kenyon College -- Department of Biology