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 • Dec. 21, 2023

Some of these integral proteins are collections of beta pleated sheets that form a pore or channel through the phospholipid bilayer.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Recall that the general structure of a cell membrane is a phospholipid bilayer composed of two layers of lipid molecules.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

The membrane of the ER, which is a phospholipid bilayer embedded with proteins, is continuous with the nuclear envelope.

From Textbooks • Jun. 9, 2022

Figure 3.8 The plasma membrane is a phospholipid bilayer with embedded proteins.

From Textbooks • Apr. 25, 2013