10: Biological Membranes and Transport
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- 10.1: Membrane and Membrane Proteins
- One easily understandable function of membrane bilayers is to separate the inside and outside of the cell or intracellular organelles. Yet as we mentioned before, such barriers can not be so rigid and impenetrable that they prevent movement of materials across the membrane. Let's turn our attention to proteins that associate with the membrane and confer added functionalities to it.