transmembrane
- noun
- /trænzˈmɛmˌbreɪn/
- Specialized
- Many transmembrane proteins play a crucial role in signaling between cells.
- cystic fibrosis transmembrane
- transmembrane regulator
- transmembrane conductance
Examples
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The structure of a transmembrane segment determines how a protein interacts with its environment.
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Researchers study transmembrane domains to understand how proteins function in cellular processes.
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OK, So I'm not going to write that out, but this is really sort of a single transmembrane Helix.
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So I'll just tell you quite briefly that ion channels are these very massive transmembrane proteins.
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And some of them are notoriously difficult, for example, transmembrane proteins, proteins that that sit in the, in the membranes of the cell.
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IFITM1 is a 17-kDa transmembrane protein coded on the short arm of chromosome 11.
Academic text (2017) -
There is a salt bridge in the 7 transmembrane G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) between an acid and amine—why not an ester?
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ACE is primarily located on cell membranes via a carboxy-terminal transmembrane domain (Box 1) and is therefore localized to specific tissues, but a cleaved, active form of the enzyme is also present in the circulation.
Academic text (2018)
Compounds
A gene making a membrane protein that controls salt and water in lung cells and whose mutations cause cystic fibrosis
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Transmembrane comes from trans- 'across' and membrane 'skin of a cell', so as a noun it names a part of a protein that goes across the cell membrane.