What are the five components of the intracellular membrane system?

What are the three functions of the plasma membrane? Give an example of each.

What are the three components of the plasma membrane?

What is it about the structural composition of the plasma membrane that causes it to form a bilayer?

How was it experimentally determined that the plasma membrane was a lipid bilayer?

What two factors contribute to the fluidity of the lipid bilayer? Explain how.

How did Gorter and Grendel show that the plasma membrane is a bilayer?

Explain briefly the experiment of Frye and Edinin. Emphasize the major points and their conclusion.

What are the two types of membrane proteins? Give an example of each.

There are two ways to determine whether a protein is an integral or a peripheral membrane protein. Please explain one of these methods.

Explain briefly the two experiments that proved that the plasma membrane is fluid.

What are the three domains of integral membrane proteins?

What are the differences in the amino acid composition of single and multiple spanning membrane proteins? Explain how the structure of these proteins is created by these differences.

What are the three types of molecular transport? Give an example of each.

How does the cell ensure that glucose permease works to transport glucose primarily in one direction?

What are the two requirements of active transport?

What are the two types of active transport? Give an example of each.

How are the functions of the mitochondria and active transporters linked?

How does the Na/K ATPase utilize ATP?

How are the three molecular transporters we discussed in class linked in the activity of intestinal epithelial cells?