What Is a Transmembrane Protein?
Integrated membrane protein (integral membrance protein): also known as membrane intrinsic protein, accounting for 70% to 80% of the total membrane protein, the main feature is water insolubility, its amino acid composition is highly hydrophobic, there are also hydrophilic amino acids, composed of hydrophobic amino acids The constituents penetrate deep into the hydrophobic region of the lipid bilayer and covalently bind to the fatty acid chain. They can be distributed in the lipid bilayer or across the entire membrane.
Integral membrane protein
- Chinese name
- Integral membrane protein
- Foreign name
- integral membrance protein
- Also known as
- Membrane intrinsic protein, transmembrane protein, mosaic protein
- Main features
- Water insolubility
- Integrated membrane protein (integral membrance protein): also known as membrane intrinsic protein, accounting for 70% to 80% of the total membrane protein, the main feature is water insolubility, its amino acid composition is highly hydrophobic, there are also hydrophilic amino acids, composed of hydrophobic amino acids The constituents penetrate deep into the hydrophobic region of the lipid bilayer and covalently bind to the fatty acid chain. They can be distributed in the lipid bilayer or across the entire membrane.
- Integrated memberane protein: Also known as membrane intrinsic protein, which accounts for 70% to 80% of the total membrane protein. It is mainly characterized by water insolubility, its amino acid composition is highly hydrophobic, and it also has hydrophilic amino acids. The constituents penetrate deep into the hydrophobic region of the lipid bilayer and covalently bind to the fatty acid chain. They can be distributed in the lipid bilayer or across the entire membrane. Some are in the form of multi-enzyme complexes, which are composed of intrinsic and peripheral proteins, while others are asymmetrically embedded in the lipid bilayer. These intrinsic proteins can only dissolve from the membrane when treated with a more powerful detergent.