Biology
Biology
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ISBN: 9781259188121
Author: Peter Stiling, Robert Brooker, Linda Graham, Eric Widmaier
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 5.2, Problem 1BC
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To explain: The reason for the importance of transmembrane protein in the cell-cell binding and cell-matrix binding.

Introduction: The transmembrane proteins traverse from one end of the membrane to the other end. These proteins are embedded inside the phospholipid bilayer and are organized in such a way that their hydrophobic body lies in the middle region while the outer side of the membrane contains polar amino groups.

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