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Pre-assessment• What can you label on this diagram? • Can you explain three different methods of transport across a membrane?

Plasma Membrane• Label the diagram with components & functions• Identify components that are involved in transport.

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Explain passive transport across membranes by simple diffusion & facilitated diffusion.

Simple & facilitated diffusion are passive. • No energy input is required

There is a net movement of molecules from one side of the membrane to the other. • The motion of molecules is random (Brownian motion)

• But there is an overall general movement in one direction.

This net movement is down the concentration gradient. • From areas of high concentration to low concentration.

Movement is across a selectively or partially permeable membraneDependent on size or properties, some molecules can cross and not others.

Simple DiffusionOccurs when the molecule’s properties allow them

pass across the membrane.

Facilitated DiffusionSome molecules cannot cross easily, for example if they are polar the phospholipids of the bilayer will

repel them.

The rate of diffusion is affected by: • magnitude of concentration gradient

• SA:Vol ratio (more membranes, more transport per unit volume)

• Length of diffusion pathway (longer journey gives slower diffusion).

Channel proteins are integral membrane proteins that pass through the membrane.

Their properties allow molecules to pass through (e.g. polar molecules or ions).

Activation of these channels might be voltage-gated (e.g. in neurons) or binding-activated.

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Active transport uses energy, in the form of ATP, to move molecules across a selectively permeable membrane against the concentration gradient, using protein pumps.

Why do this? To move molecules against the concentration gradient or to create a large concentration gradient across a membrane.

Protein pumps These are integral, passing through the membrane. They are specific – only working with the target molecule.

What happens? 1. Target molecules bind to the pump. 2. ATP also binds to the pump. ATP is broken, releasing energy and causing a

conformational (shape) change in the protein pump. 3. This conformational change pushes the molecules across the membrane.4. The molecule unbinds, and the pump reverts back to the original shape.

Examples • Sodium-potassium pump is used to re-polarise neurons after an action potential, ready to fire again.

• Proton pumps in mitochondria generate a high concentration gradient of H+ ions, ready for chemiosmosis through ATP synthase, used for generating ATP.

http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/olcweb/cgi/pluginpop.cgi?it=swf::535::535::/sites/dl/free/0072437316/120068/bio03.swf::Sodium-Potassium Exchange Pump