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Membrane Fluidity

Membrane Fluidity
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Description: Membranes are fluid structures because most of the membrane lipids and many of the membrane proteins move easily in the bilayer

Membrane lipids and proteins are mobile in their own half of the bilayer

Cholesterol serves to stabilize the membrane and reduce membrane fluidity

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