Plasma Membrane

MCAT Intercellular junctions

Intracellular junctions are different types of connections between cells. Intercellular junctions are regions of contact…

MCAT Membrane receptor

Membrane receptors bind to external molecules called ligands and cause an internal cellular response. Membrane…

Membrane potential

A cell’s membrane potential is negatively charged when it is resting and non-signalling and is…

Membrane channels

Channel proteins span the membrane and make hydrophilic tunnels across it, allowing their target molecules to…

Membrane dynamics

The membrane is a dynamic structure which is always moving, this is because the phospholipids…