(A) The plasma membrane of a ... of a glycerophospholipid molecule; phosphatidylcholine is shown as an example. The hydrophilic head is composed of a choline structure (blue) and a phosphate ...

All cells have an outer plasma membrane that regulates ... Glycerol is a three-carbon molecule that functions as the backbone of these membrane lipids. Within an individual glycerophospholipid ...

Many techniques involve chemical modifications ... lattice bound to the plasma membrane bilayer. They then used cryo-EM to reconstruct the three-dimensional (3D) structure of the MCC microdomains ...