Mosaic Membrane Mighty Model©

With 3DMD’s first-of-its-kind Mosaic Membrane Mighty Model©, your students will feel a lipid bilayer's flexible, fluid nature as they learn about membranes and their important role in separating the inside of a cell from the extracellular environment outside of the cell.  Since membranes are more than a phospholipid bilayer, your students will model and discuss the interactivity of systems, with additional proteins and other lipids:  channel proteins that move nutrients and ions across the membrane receptor proteins that bind extracellular ligands  and trigger signal transduction cascades inside the cell   peripheral proteins and glycoproteins on the outside surface of the membrane that serve as markers for cell-cell-recognition and aid in cell-cell communication  glycolipids and cholesterol that aid in cell identification and affect membrane fluidity.  This membrane model sits on a base that represents the intracellular matrix of the cell – composed of actin f