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The lipid bilayer (or phospholipid bilayer) is a thin polar membrane made of two layers of lipid molecules. These membranes are flat sheets that form a continuous barrier around all cells . The cell membranes of almost all organisms and many viruses are made of a lipid bilayer, as are the nuclear membrane surrounding the cell nucleus , and ...
The phospholipid bilayer gives fluidity and elasticity to the membrane. Small amounts of carbohydrates are also found in the cell membrane. The biological model, which was devised by Seymour Jonathan Singer and Garth L. Nicolson in 1972, [1] describes the cell membrane as a two-dimensional liquid where embedded proteins are generally randomly ...
Phospholipid bilayers are the main structural component of the cell membranes. In biological membranes, the phospholipids often occur with other molecules (e.g., proteins, glycolipids, sterols) in a bilayer such as a cell membrane. [7]
The bilayer formed by membrane lipids serves as a containment unit of a living cell. Membrane lipids also form a matrix in which membrane proteins reside. Historically lipids were thought to merely serve a structural role. Functional roles of lipids are in fact many: They serve as regulatory agents in cell growth and adhesion.
Two diagrams, one showing bilayer detail with a monolayer in the third dimension and another showing the bilayer as a 3D 'layer' with filaments, cytoplasm, and clear intracellular / extracellular separation would have improved my comprehension when I was doing biology. Dhatfield 16:55, 12 June 2008 (UTC) Response to technical concerns.
The Davson-Danielli model threw new light on the understanding of cell membranes, by stressing the important role played by proteins in biological membranes. By the 1950s, cell biologists verified the existence of plasma membranes through the use of electron microscopy (which accounted for higher resolutions).
This image is a derivative work of the following images: Image:Cell_membrane_detailed_diagram_3.svg licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0 . 2008-06-13T14:41:45Z Dhatfield 1973x1532 (498192 Bytes) {{Information |Description=The cell membrane, also called the plasma membrane or plasmalemma, is a semipermeable lipid bilayer common to all living cells.
The plasma membrane or bacterial cytoplasmic membrane is composed of a phospholipid bilayer and thus has all of the general functions of a cell membrane such as acting as a permeability barrier for most molecules and serving as the location for the transport of molecules into the cell.