phospholipid bilayer

American  

noun

1. a two-layered arrangement of phosphate and lipid molecules that form a cell membrane, the hydrophobic lipid ends facing inward and the hydrophilic phosphate ends facing outward.

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Example Sentences

These channels facilitate water transportation across cells more rapidly than diffusion through the membrane phospholipid bilayer.

From Science Daily

Viral genomes are encapsulated by a protein-based capsid, but in many cases, including that of SARS-CoV-2, that capsid is covered by a phospholipid bilayer membrane, which is essential for the virus to fuse with cell membranes.

From Scientific American

The phospholipid bilayer patches allow greasy antibiotics and detergents to enter the cell, and transient defects at the boundaries between the two different lipid phases allow leakage of large soluble molecules7.

From Nature

In these mutants, phospholipids migrate into the external surface of the outer membrane to create mixed membranes containing patches of phospholipid bilayer scattered among the zones of LPS–phospholipid membrane.

From Nature

E. coli has two distinct membranes: the inner membrane, which is a phospholipid bilayer; and the asymmetric outer membrane, in which LPS lines the external surface, and a single layer of phospholipids forms the internal surface.

From Nature