inner membrane
Internal enclosing layer
Inner membrane refers to the innermost of two or more membrane layers in a biological structure.
Mitochondria and chloroplasts have inner membranes where critical energy-producing reactions occur.
In gram-negative bacteria, the inner membrane (also called the plasma membrane) lies beneath the outer membrane and cell wall.
The term appears primarily in biology and biochemistry contexts.
- mitochondriaCell's energy-producing organelles
- cellBasic unit of life
- phospholipidPhosphate-containing membrane lipid
- bilayerTwo-layer molecular arrangement
- cristaeMitochondrial membrane infoldings
permeability · matrix · organelle · transport · ATP · energy production · cytoplasm · envelope · barrier · selective · pore · respiration · chloroplast · nucleus · lipid · protein · translocation · gradient
- nuclear envelopenuclear envelope, lamina, outer ring
- cell biologycell division, cytoplasm, ribosome, mitochondria, nucleus
- egg biologyegg, eggshell, egg white, egg yolk, yolk
- cell membranesbilayer, phospholipid, phospholipids, cholesterol, permeability
- Cell Nucleusnucleus, nucleolus, nuclear envelope, chromatin, chromosomes
- Cell Structurescell wall, cytoplasm, ribosome, ribosomes, nucleoid
inner membraneouter membrane
Exterior enclosing layer
outer layer · outer boundary · plasma membrane · outermost layer
inner, membrane, inward, inwards, innermost, membranous, membranes