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Family of lipids found exclusively in the noncytosolic leaflet of a bilayer
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Glycolipids
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Describes a hydrocarbon lipid tail lacking double bonds
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Saturated
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The most abundant membrane lipid
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Phospholipid
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A lipid not found in bacterial membranes
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Cholesterol
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Two protein folds found in multipass transmembrane proteins
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Alpha helix and beta sheet (barrel)
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Another word for the monolayer of a lipid bilayer
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Leaflet
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Used to predict stretches of hydrophobic amino acids that cross a lipid bilayer as an alpha helix
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Hydropathy plots
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Maintains the asymmetric distribution of membrane proteins to apical/basal lateral subdomains in epithelial cells
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Tight junctions
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Surrounded by a single phospholipid monolayer; contains lipid molecules composed of only hydrophobic molecules
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Lipid droplets
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Found in proteins that cross a lipid bilayer; formed by a stretch of hydrophobic amino acids
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Transmembrane domain
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Specialized lipid membrane subdomains found in animal cells
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Lipid drafts
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Used to link soluble proteins to a membrane; often a reversible modification
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Lipid anchor
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Proteins that indirectly associate with a lipid bilayer through their association with a membrane protein
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Peripheral membrane proteins
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Method used to measure the lateral movement of membrane proteins wtihin a membrane
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FRAP
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Property that describes lipid molecules; containing both hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions
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Amphipathic or amphiphilic
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