chemical composition of plasma membrane
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The membrane is mainly composed of lipids, proteins and carbohydrates. Water makes about 29% of total weight. Robertson (1959) proposed that plasma membrane is three-layered structure where proteins form the outer and inner layers of membrane that encloses lipids to form a unit membrane.
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Chemically, the plasma membrane is composed of a wide variety of proteins, lipids in the form of cholesterol, phospholipid and sphingolipid and carbohydrates in the form of glycoproteins.
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