Topic summary
Single-pass transmembrane protein
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Single-pass membrane protein.
Structure
A single-pass transmembrane protein typically consists of three domains, the extracellular domain, the transmembrane domain, and the intracellular domain. The transmembrane domain is the smallest at around 25 amino acid residues and forms an alpha helix inserted into the membrane bilayer. The ECD is typically much larger than the ICD and is often globular, whereas many ICDs have relatively high disorder. Some proteins in this class function as monomers, but dimerization or higher-order oligomerization is common.