Chapter 11: Biological Membranes and Transport
Membranes are much more than just phospholipid
Lipid aggregates
Biological membrane composition
Membrane integral proteins
Computer algorithms are fairly descent at predicting the TM regions within membrane integral protein sequences
Membrane integral proteins
Fluid mosaic model
Biological transport via vesicle-membrane fusion
Kinetics vs. thermodynamics of transport Ionophore = chemistry’s Trojan horse.
Diffusion = high to low concentration!
Other types of biological transport
The 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes”
The potassium channel is an ingenious solution to selectively allowing for potassium, but not sodium transport
7TMs = GPCRs
Beta-barrel proteins
Three general classes of transport systems
The neurotransmitter/sodium symporter protein family Yamashita et al., Nature 437, , 2005.
Phylogenomics of the NSS protein family Livesay et al., BMC Bioinformatics 8, 397, 2007.
outward open -> occluded -> inward open This scheme is fairly common Model of glucose transport into erythrocytes by GluT
Active transport uses ATP hydrolysis to go against the concentration gradient
Oxidative phosphorylation synthesizes ATP, which is driven by the flux of H+ with the concentration gradient ATPase
The ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters and the bacterial periplasmic binding proteins (bPBPs) bPBP ATP-binding domains Transmembrane domains Substrate -- Extracellular Periplasm Cytosol -- bPBP