Chapter 11 Flashcards
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The hydrophobic nature of the interior of the lipid bilayer is a barrier to what?
The passage of polar molecules
The lipid bilayer functions to allow cells to accumulate solutes that are what?
Different from their surrounding extracellular fluid
Cells exchange small molecules across its lipid bilayer for what processes? Give 3 processes
- The acquisition of nutrients
- Excretion of waste products
- The regulation of intracellular ion concentrations
Synthetic protein-free lipid bilayers show differences in their relative permeability to what kind of molecules?
Small molecules
Smaller and more hydrophobic/nonpolar a molecule is, what happens to the rate of diffusion across the membrane?
The faster its rate of diffusion across an artificial bilayer
Small molecule transport will be driven by the difference in the solute concentration across the membrane with transport occuring down a molecules what?
Concentration gradient
How quickly does small nonpolar molecules like oxygen and carbon dioxide cross a membrane?
Rapidly
Charged molecules like sodium, potassium, magnesium or calcium are relatively impermeable to a lipid bilayer due to what?
Their charge and high degree of hydration
The permeability coefficient and the calculated differences of a solute concentration across an artificial membrane can be used to calculate what?
A flow rate
Name 5 hydrophobic molecules that can pass readily through a synthetic lipid bilayer
Oxygen, Carbon dioxide, Nitrogen, Steroids, Hormones

Name 3 small uncharged polar molecules that can pass slowly through a synthetic lipid bilayer?
Water, Urea, Glycerol

Name 2 large uncharged polar molecules that pass very slowly (unless helped by transport proteins) through a synthetic lipid bilayer?
Glucose, Sucrose

Name six charged ions that are relatively impermeable to a lipid bilayer due their charge and high degree of hydration
Hydrogen, Nitrogen, HCO3, Potassium, Calcium, Choride, and Magnesium

What is this structure?

Transporter
What is this structure?

Channel protein
Which one (channel protein or transporter) undergoes a conformational change when transporting materials into/out of a cell?

Transporter
Which one (channel protein or transporter) is an aqueous pore?

Channel protein
Which one (channel protein or transporter) moves material into/out of the cell at a quicker rate?

Channel protein
The passage of polar molecules such as sugars, amino acids, nucleotides, cellular metabolites and ions across a membrane requires the use of what?
Transport proteins
Transport proteins each transport a specific class of molecules and usually only what kind of molecular species?
A certain molecular species within that class
All known transport proteins are what?
Multispanning transmembrane proteins
The structural composition of transmembrane proteins allows for the transport of what kind of molecules across a hydrophobic lipid bilayer without making direct contact?
Small hydrophilic molecules
What are the two kinds of membrane transport proteins?
- Transporters/carriers/permeases 2. Channels
What kind of membrane transport protein binds to the solute being transported and undergo changes in conformation to transfer the molecule across the membrane?
Transporters







































