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2. What is the energetic driving force for the formation of phospholipid bilayers?
Hydrophobic interactions among the hydrocarbon tails of the lipids are the main
energetic driving force in the formation of lipid bilayers.
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Biosc 1000
rate
[glucose]
G = RTln(cin/cout) + ZFV
Out of the sarcoplasmic reticulum & in to the cytoplasm
= (8.3145 J/Kmol) (310K)ln (10-7M/10-3 M) + (2)(96,485 J/Vmol)
(-0.05 V)
=(2577) (-9.2) +( 1.929 x 105 J/Vmol) (-0.05 V)
= - 2.37 x 104 J/mol 9.65 x 103 J/mol
= -3.34 x 104 J/mol = -33.4 kJ/mol
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