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Medical Definition of Fluid bilayer model
1. Generally accepted model for membranes in cells. In its original form, the model held that proteins floated in a sea of phospholipids arranged as a bilayer with a central hydrophobic domain. Although it is now recognised that some proteins are restrained by interactions with cytoskeletal elements and that the phospholipid annulus around a protein may contain only specific types of lipid, the model is still considered broadly correct. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
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