Trends in Biotechnology The crowded cell

The following pictures are selected to give you an idea.

The cell does not have many big spaces in it.

The cell is really very crowded.

"Illustrations by David S. Goodsell, the Scripps Research Institute."

The cell can do many things to manage what happens in the cell.

Different proteins, so different reactions and products, can be localized to different areas of the cell.

Other molecules can be used to organize the cell processes.

Compare the following drawing of the crowded phosholipid bilayer, with a ‘normal’ diagram of a cell.

One phosholipid molecule.

An image of a membrane without cholesterol An image of a membrane with cholesterol National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

A Trend in Biotechnology: Information is being integrated in many ways.

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