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Cell Transport: AP Biology
Cell Transport: AP Biology
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Membrane Transport
Plasma membrane is selectively permeable
Impermeable membrane - membrane though which
nothing can pass
Freely permeable membrane - any substance can pass
through it
Selectively permeable membrane - permits free passage
of some materials and restricts passage of others
Distinction may be based on size, electrical charge,
molecular shape, lipid solubility
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The Cell Membrane
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Overview
Cell membrane separates living cell from
nonliving surroundings
thin barrier = 8nm thick
Controls traffic in & out of the cell
selectively permeable
allows some substances to cross more easily
than others
hydrophobic vs hydrophilic
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Phosphate
Phospholipids
Fatty acid tails
hydrophobic
Phosphate group head
Fatty acid
hydrophilic
Arranged as a bilayer
Aaaah,
one of those
structure–function
examples
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Phospholipid bilayer
polar
hydrophilic
heads
nonpolar
hydrophobic
tails
polar
hydrophilic
heads
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More than lipids…
In 1972, S.J. Singer & G. Nicolson
proposed that membrane proteins are
inserted into the phospholipid bilayer
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Membrane is a collage of proteins & other molecules
embedded in the fluid matrix of the lipid bilayer
Glycolipid
Phospholipids
Cholesterol
Transmembrane
proteins
Peripheral
protein
Cytoplasm Filaments of
cytoskeleton
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Membrane fat composition varies
Fat composition affects flexibility
membrane must be fluid & flexible
about as fluid as thick salad oil
% unsaturated fatty acids in phospholipids
keep membrane less viscous
cold-adapted organisms, like winter wheat
increase % in autumn
cholesterol in membrane
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Membrane Proteins
Proteins determine membrane’s specific functions
cell membrane & organelle membranes each have
unique collections of proteins
Membrane proteins:
peripheral proteins
loosely bound to surface of membrane
cell surface identity marker (antigens)
integral proteins
penetrate lipid bilayer, usually across whole membrane
transmembrane protein
transport proteins
channels, permeases (pumps)
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Why are
proteins the perfect
molecule to build structures
in the cell membrane?
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Classes of amino acids
What do these amino acids have in common?
I like the
polar ones
the best!
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polar & hydrophilic
Proteins domains anchor molecule
Polar areas
Within membrane of protein
nonpolar amino acids
hydrophobic
anchors protein
into membrane
On outer surfaces of
membrane
polar amino acids
hydrophilic
extend into
extracellular fluid &
Nonpolar areas of protein
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into cytosol
H+
Examples Retinal
chromophore
NH2
water channel
in bacteria
Porin monomer
-pleated sheets
Bacterial Nonpolar
outer (hydrophobic) COOH
membrane -helices in the
cell membrane H+
Cytoplasm
Plasma
membrane
Inside
Transporter Enzyme Cell surface
activity receptor
foreign cells by
immune system
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Any Questions??
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Movement across the
Cell Membrane
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Types of Cellular Transport
Weee!
Passive Transport
cell doesn’t use energy
1. Diffusion
2. Facilitated Diffusion high
3. Osmosis
low
Active Transport
cell does use energy This is
1. Protein Pumps gonna
be hard
2. Endocytosis high
work!!
3. Exocytosis
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low
Passive Transport
cell uses no energy
molecules move randomly
Molecules spread out from an area of
high concentration to an area of low
concentration.
(HighLow)
Three types:
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3 Types of Passive Transport
1. Diffusion
2. Facilitative Diffusion – diffusion with
the help of transport proteins
3. Osmosis – diffusion of water
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Diffusion
2nd Law of Thermodynamics
governs biological systems
universe tends towards disorder (entropy)
Diffusion
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movement from high low concentration
Diffusion
Move from HIGH to LOW concentration
“passive transport”
no energy needed
movement of water
IN OUT
food waste
carbohydrates OUT ammonia
sugars, proteins salts
amino acids CO2
IN
lipids H2O
salts, O2, H2O products
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cell needs materials in & products or waste out
Diffusion through phospholipid bilayer
What molecules can get through directly?
fats & other lipids
lipid
What molecules can
inside cell NOT get through
NH3 salt directly?
polar molecules
H2O
ions
salts, ammonia
sugar aa H2 O
outside cell large molecules
starches, proteins
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Channels through cell membrane
Membrane becomes semi-permeable
with protein channels
specific channels allow specific material
across cell membrane
NH
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3
salt outside cell
Facilitated Diffusion
Diffusion through protein channels
channels move specific molecules across
cell membrane
facilitated = with help
no energy needed
open channel = fast transport
high
low
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Active Transport
Cells may need to move molecules against
concentration gradient
shape change transports solute from
one side of membrane to other
protein “pump”
conformational change
“costs” energy = ATP low
ATP
high
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Active transport
Many models & mechanisms
ATP ATP
antiport symport
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Antiport
An antiport is an integral membrane transport
protein that simutaneously transports two
different molecules, in opposite directions,
across the membrane
Symport
The term symport is used to denote an integral
membrane protein that simultaneouly transports
two substances across membrane in the same
direction.
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Sodium-Potassium Pump 1
K+ issites
6 released and Extracellular Binding of cytoplasmic Na+ to the pump
Na are ready to bind Na+
+
fluid protein stimulates phosphorylation by ATP.
again; the cycle repeats.
Cytoplasm
2
Phosphorylation causes the
protein to change its shape.
Concentration gradients
of K+ and Na+
3
5
The shape change expels Na + to the
Loss of phosphate restores the outside, and extracellular K+ binds.
original conformation of the 4
pump protein.
K+ binding triggers release of the
phosphate group.
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Getting through cell membrane
Passive Transport
Simple diffusion
diffusion of nonpolar, hydrophobic molecules
lipids
high low concentration gradient
Facilitated transport
diffusion of polar, hydrophilic molecules
through a protein channel
high low concentration gradient
Active transport
diffusion against concentration gradient
low high
uses a protein pump ATP
requires ATP
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Transport summary
simple
diffusion
facilitated
diffusion
active ATP
transport
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How about large molecules?
Moving large molecules into & out of cell
through vesicles & vacuoles
endocytosis
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Endocytosis
fuse with
phagocytosis lysosome for
digestion
pinocytosis non-specific
process
triggered by
receptor-mediated molecular
endocytosis signal
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The Special Case of Water
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Osmosis is diffusion of water
Water is very important to life,
so we talk about water separately
Diffusion of water from
high concentration of water to
low concentration of water
across a
semi-permeable
membrane
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Tonicity
Tonicity - ability of a solution to affect fluid volume
and pressure within a cell
depends on concentration and permeability of solute
Isotonic solution
solution with the same solute concentration as that of the
cytosol; normal saline
Hypotonic solution
lower concentration of nonpermeating solutes than that of
the cytosol (high water concentration)
cells absorb water, swell and may burst (lyse)
Hypertonic solution
has higher concentration of nonpermeating solutes than that
of the cytosol (low water concentration)
cells lose water + shrivel (crenate)
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Osmosis and Cells
Important because large volume changes caused
by water movement disrupt normal cell function
Cell shrinkage or swelling
Isotonic: cell neither shrinks nor swells
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Concentration of water
Direction of osmosis is determined by
comparing total solute concentrations
Hypertonic - more solute, less water
Hypotonic - less solute, more water
Isotonic - equal solute, equal water
water
hypotonic hypertonic
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Managing water balance
Cell survival depends on balancing
water uptake & loss
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Managing water balance
Hypotonic
a cell in fresh water
example: Paramecium
problem: gains water,
swells & can burst
water continually enters
Paramecium cell
solution: contractile vacuole
ATP pumps water out of cell
ATP
plant cells
turgid
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Water regulation
Contractile vacuole in Paramecium
ATP
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Effects of Tonicity on RBCs
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1991 | 2003
Aquaporins
Water moves rapidly into & out of cells
evidence that there were water channels
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