Fluid-mosaic model (Singer-Nicolson)

Layer 3 — Biologyin the Cell Membrane And Transport subtree

Singer-Nicolson 1972: plasma membrane is a 2D fluid of laterally-diffusing lipids with proteins embedded like icebergs. Refined by Saffman-Delbrück diffusion, lipid raft microdomains, cytoskeletal fences.

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