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Fluid Mosaic Model

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50% lipid, 50% protein held together by H-bonds
Lipid is the barrier for entry/exit of polar substances
Proteins regulate traffic

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What is membrane fluidity determined by

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Lipid tail length - the longer the tail, the less fluid the membrane

Number of double bonds – more double bonds increases fluidity

Amount of cholesterol – more decreases fluidity

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Integral membranes (INTRINSIC)

  • How is located in membrane?
  • What are the regions and what do they do?
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Extend into or completely across membrane
Amphipathic
Hydrophobic core- coiled helices of non-polar amino acids
Hydrophilic end interacts with aq. solution

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Peripheral proteins (EXTRINSIC)

  • how does it interact?
  • What removes it?
  • how is it attached?
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Attached inner or outer surface of CM
Easily removed by detergents- break H-bonds

Indirectly bound- attach to integral proteins
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Interact w/ lipid polar head group

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Example of Peripheral protein and its importance

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Cytochrome C

Essential in ETC, links complex 3 and 4

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How can peripheral proteins be disrupted?

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Change in pH or salt concentration

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What can membrane proteins act as?

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Receptors, Cell ID markers, Linkers, Enzymes, Channels, Transporters

Every triathelete really loves cutting corners

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Lipid bilayer permeable to

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Uncharged non-polar- O2, N2, benzene
Small uncharged polar- water, urea, CO2, glycerol
Lipid soluble- Steroids, fatty acids, some vitamins

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Lipid bilayer impermeable to

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Large uncharged polar- Glucose, amino acids

Ions- Na, K, Cl, Ca, H

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Diffusion

  • what factors give faster diffusion
  • when is diffusion fast
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High-> low conc.

Greater diff. between two sides of membrane, High temp, high SA, small size, shorter diffusion distance

INCREASE RoD

Fast only across short distances

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What is the size limit for diffusion?

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20 um

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What are the two gradients across a cell membrane?

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Conc. gradient

Electrochemical gradient

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Conc. gradient

- Definition

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Non-charged molecules, DOWN conc. gradient

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Electrochemical gradient

  • what ions are high in and outside cell?
  • what direction and how do they travel
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“Salty banana”

High Na, Cl outside
High K inside

So ions travel to lower side. diffuse down con. grad

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What do conc. and electrochemical gradients represent?

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Stored energy

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Osmosis

  • Defintion
  • what is colligative property?
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Diffusion of water across semi-permeable, high to low

Depends on number not types of particles in solution

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Osmotic pressure

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Pressure applied to prevent osmosis

E.g. more water on one side of membrane as it has more solute

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Isosmotic definition

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Solution has same osmolarity compared to reference solution

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Hyposmotic definition

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Lower osmolarity than reference solution

low solute conc.
high water conc.

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Hyperosmotic definition

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Higher osmolarity than reference solution

high solute conc.
low water conc.

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What is the osmolarity of body fluid?

- what occurs when osmosis occurs?

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280 mOsmol

Change in cell volume occurs if osmosis occurs

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Tonicity

- definition

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Effect of cell volume due to solution

only influenced by cells that can’t cross semi-permeable membrane

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Isotonic

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No change in cell volume

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Hypotonic

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Swelling, lysis (haemolysis- rupture of RBC)

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Hypertonic
Cell shrinkage (crenation)
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What do membranes mimic? | - what can they store
Capacitors | Can separate and store charge
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Width of bilayer membrane
8 nm (8x10^-9 m)
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Glycolipid - location - function
Attached to membrane | Cell recognition, maintain stability
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Glycoprotein - what type of membrane protein is it? - function
Intergral membrane protein- have carbohydrate branching off coiled a.a membrane Cell to cell recognition
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Water permeability in relation to membrane fluidity
More fluid= higher lipid-water permeability
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What are the two ways water can cross lipid bilayer
Diffusion | Aquaporins
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What is more permeable to water, aquaporin or diffusion through lipid bilayer
Aquaporin > lipid bilayer | Pf > Pd
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What are the properties of water moving through lipid bilayer?
Its small, Isn't blocked by mercury (mercury- binds to proteins causing changes) Temp. dependent (lipid fluidity)
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What are the properties of water moving aquaporins?
Large Mercury sensitive- mercury can bind to proteins in channels and block them- aquaporin can be inhibited Temp independent
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How many isoforms of aquaporins are there in human genome?
9 Expressed differently in different cells
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Why can cells express different Pw?
Express different aquaporin isoforms What is the osmotic gradient? What is the permeability of membrane to water?
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Difference between osmolarity and tonicity
osmolarity is difference in solute conc. and tonicity is the movement of solute which also brings movement of water E.g. urea moves into RBC, and
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What causes change of shape in carrier protein
Hydrolyses of ATP, Phosphate group binds to carrier protein causing 'flipping' mechanism
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Secondary Active Transport
Uses energy from one solute moving down its conc. grad, and in return the energy given off from this is used to transport another diff. solute AGAINST its conc. gradient
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Antiporter (secondary)
Is a co-transporter Transporting 2 different molecules across CM in opposite directions
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Symporter (secondary)
Co-transporter Transport 2 different molecules across CM in SAME direction
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Pump-leak hypothesis
Na+ continuously leaking out & K+ in Pump works continuously
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Tight Junctions | - act as...
Separate epithelial cells by lateral intercellular space Barrier- restrict movement of substances through intercellular space between cells Fence- prevent membrane proteins from diffusing in plane of lipid bilayer Held together by luminal edges of tight junctions
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Apical membrane
Luminal/Mucosal | Faces lumen of organ or body cavity
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Basolateral membrane
Adheres to adjacent membrane and interfaces with blood
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Paracellular Transport
Transport across epithelium by passing through intercellular space
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Transcellular Transport
Substances travels through cell passing apical and basolateral membrame create ion/conc. gradients that can drive paracellular
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2 types of transcellular transport
Absorption: lumen to blood Secretion: blood to lumen
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Changes in tight junction resistance
Proximal --> Distal direction in GI and kidney
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Patch clamp technique
Seal off one ion channel, can monitor particular channel, see how it changes shape
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What do current fluctuations represent
Opening and closing of single ion channels Conformational change in channel structure associated with channel gating
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Carrier mediated transport exhibit..
Specificity Inhibition Competition Saturation (max. transport)
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Facilitated diffusion of glucose
Glucose binds to GLUT Transporter protein changes shape. Glucose moves down conc. grad Kinase enzymes reduce glucose conc. inside cell by converting glucose into glucose-6-phosphate
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What does the conversion of glucose do for cell
Maintains conc. gradient for glucose entry
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Paracellular tight junctions
Higher electrical resistance to ion flow = greater no. of tight junction strands holding cell together
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Leaky epithelium
Paracellular transport dominates
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Tight epithelium
Transcellular transport dominates
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SGLT
Na-gluose Symporter transporter Secondary AT Carrier-mediated
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GLUT
facilitative glucose transporter mediates glucose exit acorss basolateral membrae Passive diffusion
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Pump-leak hypothesis for glucose absorption
Na+ enters cell by SGLT down grad. as more Na+ inside cell as hypothesis states, Na+ needs to leave and it leaves by Na/K pump in basolateral
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Pump-leak hypothesis for glucose absorption
Na+ enters cell by SGLT down grad. as more Na+ inside cell as hypothesis states, Na+ needs to leave and it leaves by Na/K pump in basolateral
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What is the last step in glucose absorption in SI
Cl and H2O via paracellular pathway from lumen into blood as Na+ ve draws -ve ion,
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How does glucose leave cell into blood
Travels down conc. grad. (cell) to low conc. (blood) facilitated diffusion through GLUT
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Oral rehydration therapy
Sugar solution containing glucose, increases absorption of Na+, thus Cl- and water
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Glucose-galactose malabsoprtion syndrome
genetic defect in SGLUT mutated, cant take up glucose Sugar retained in intestine lumen
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Consequences of GGM syndrome
Glucose comes in broken down into, more particles mean higher osmolarity ``` Osmosis into lumen Water chyme (diarrhea) ```
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How to treat GGM syndrome?
Replace glucose in diet with FRUCTOSE, GLUT5 facilitative transporter
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Glucose Reabsorption in kidney
Glucose reabsorbed by SGLUT in lumen, then facilitative diffusion into blood
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What happens if SGLUT not functioning fast enough
Glucosuria- glucose in urine as it can't be absorbed fast enough DIABETES MELLITUS - insulin activity deficient and blood sugar too high (>200mg/ml)
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When does glucose appear in urine?
When renal threshold reached @ 200 mg/100 ml plasma Transport maximum of SGLT reached 375mg/min of glucose
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What form of transport is glucose in kidney
Carrier mediated transport- all transporters used up secondary AT
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Chloride secretion
1) Tight junction divides apical and basolateral membrane 2) Na/K pump sets up ion gradient (primary AT, electrogenic) 3) NaK2CL symporter uses energy of Na gradient to accumulate chloride above electrochemical gradient, so Cl- wants to leave cell now 4) Cl leaves cell by passive diffusion through Chloride ion channel 5) Na exits via basolateral Na-pump and via K+ via channel 6) Lumen now -ve, so Na+ and H2O moves paracellular down conc. grad into lumen
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Rate limiting step
Cl- can't leave cell unless channel open Opening of Cl- channel gated Channel called CFTR
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CFTR
Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane conductance Regulator
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Consequence of over stimulation of CFTR and
Secretory diarrhea and its dysfunction causes cystic fibrosis
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How is secretory diarrhea caused and what causes this excessive stimulation
Excessive stimulation of secretory cells in crypts of small intestine and colon Excessive stimulation due to abnormally high conc. of endogenous secretagogues produced by tumours or inflammation
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Secretagogue | - where do they bind to
substance that promotes secretion, NA and ACh bind to GPCR, which releases a G-protein G-protein binds to adenylate cyclase, releasing cAMP cAMP activates Protein Kinase A which sticks a phosphate onto CFTP on apical membrane, staying open
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Enterotoxin | - what does it do in secretory diarrhea
toxin affecting intestines vibrio cholerae
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Difference between normal mechanism and mechanism of cholera
Instead of G-protein binding to Adenylate cyclase cholera toxin binds irreversibly to Adenylate cyclase
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How to treat secretory diarrhea
Give them glucose/electrolytes
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What happens to cells of crypts after 5 days
The crypts cells move up villus changing from secretion cells to glucose absorption cells @ top of villus
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Cystic fibrosis
Inherited disorder affecting children and young adults Autosomal Recessive= chromosome 7 1/4 chance
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Which ethnic group is CF most common
Northern Europe 1: 2500 CF 1: 25 carriers
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Organs affected by cystic fibrosis
airways- infection bronchial passages, lung cancer liver- plug small bile ducts pancreas- prevent digestive enzymes delivered to bowel small intestine- thick stool blocks gut reproductive tract skin- salty sweat
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Events in CFTR
Secretagogue had to bind, activate cAMP, activate protein kinase A, phosphorylate Regulatory domain ATP binds to Nucleotide binding domain (NBD)
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How to shut the CFTR channel
Hydrolyse ATP to ADP and P
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How to permanently close channel
Dephosphorylation
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Lung epithelial cells in CF
Defective Cl- channel prevents isotonic fluid secretion Enhances Na+ absorption to give dry lung surface
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Clinical treatment of CF
Chest percussions improve clearance of infected secretions Antibiotics Pancreatic enzyme replacement- pill before eating for digestion 6
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two stages of sweat
Primary isotonic secretion fluid by acinar cells secondary reabsorption of NaCL but NOT water produces hypotonic solution
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What is the difference in CF patients producing sweat
Epithelial cells in ducts of sweat glands don't absorb NaCl and thus producing salty sweat

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