Across
- 3. Shorter hydrocarbon tails can increase the membrane __________.
- 7. The layer of an internal membrane that faces the organelle’s interior space is the __________ layer.
- 9. A type of membrane protein that facilitates cells to receive and respond to extracellular signals.
- 11. A type of phosphoglyceride that is abundant in mammalian cells and highly distributed in the cytosolic layer of plasma membrane.
- 12. The __________ in unsaturated fatty acids increases the membrane fluidity.
Down
- 1. The modification or cleavage of __________ is important for its role in intracellular signalling.
- 2. A phosphoglyceride that has a negatively charged polar head.
- 4. Integrin is an example of membrane protein that functions as an __________ that links intracellular actin filaments to extracellular matrix proteins.
- 5. __________ is a carbohydrate layer that surrounds eukaryotic cells to protect them from ionic stress, mechanical stress and invading microorganisms.
- 6. A type of lipid molecule that contains one or more sugars attached to it and are exclusively distributed in the non-cytosolic layer.
- 8. A term that describes the clustering of cholesterol, glycolipids, sphingolipids and membrane proteins in an organised membrane domain.
- 10. A type of sterol that influences the mobility of lipids and fluidity of the plasma membrane.