Wordlists for Exam 1
Lectures 6 & 7
Membrane Structure 4

negative staining
"Membrane skeleton" of mammalian RBC

spectrin
ankyrin
junctional complex

actin (short filament of 13 actin molecules)
band 4.1
adducin
tropomyosin
cell cortex
phosphatidyl inositol
"Glycosyl phosphatidyl inositol-linked proteins" - at extracellular surface

= "GPI-linked proteins"
"GPI anchor"

phospholipase D versus phospholipase C
differences from phospholipases A₁ and A₂


beta sheet, beta barrel
oligosaccharide versus polysaccharide
glycolipid
glycoprotein
proteoglycan
glycocalyx (pl: glycocalyces) = "sweet husk"
glycophorin = "sugar carrier".   Found only in RBC membrane.
protein families: homologous proteins

asparagine (=N)
N-linked oligosaccharide = asparagine-linked oligosaccharide
Oligosaccharide covalently linked to - NH₂ of asparagine side chain
O-linked oligosaccharide: Attached to amino acids with -OH in side chain.

serine   (ser)
threonine   (thr)


fucose
NA = neuraminic acid = sialic acid = N-acetylneuraminic acid = NANA
"sialoglycoprotein"
ruthenium red
cationized ferritin

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