Friday, 4 January 2008

cell biology - Intracellular lipid transport

I know that lipids are carried around the body in the blood either as micelles or by lipid-binding proteins which allow them to be solved.



Lipids can't always be integrated in a membrane though, the phospholipids used in membranes have to be synthesised somewhere from a precursor which will also by hydrophobic.



Consequently, at some point there will have to be transport of lipids within the cell where the lipids will need to be in solution. How is this facilitated?

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