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Molecular cell biology

Sent to General Experts September 2 2004 at 9:28 PM
   

Lipids diffuse laterally on a layer of membrane, by exchanging places with their neighbors every 100 nanoseconds (ten to the minus seven seconds). It takes about 1 second for a lipid molecule to diffuse from one ensd of a bacterium to the other, a distance of 2 micrometers. Assume the diameter of a lipid head is 0.5 nanometers. Based on the exchange rate how much time should it take for a lipid to move from one end of the bacterium to the other? Is this time in agreement time with the diffusion time? Why or why not?

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