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In fact, if you take some cholesterol, or another lipid or lipidlike molecule, and dissolve it in water, bilayer membrane vesicles form spontaneously that are called liposomes.
Most transmembrane proteins are formed from bundles of helices that traverse the membrane lipid bilayer.
The loops containing the NPA motif, located to the carboxy-terminal side of TM2 and TM5, respectively, overlap in the middle of the lipid bilayer ('hourglass' model) and form two hemipores that generate a narrow channel [ 15, 16, 17].
This lipid does not support the formation of closed bilayer vesicles, but rather forms micelles like a detergent.
We hypothesize that it is unlikely that some members of the TMC family display an atypical topology, thus we propose that the lipophilic intracellular loop between TM6 and TM7 bears some flexibility, which may enable this domain to integrate into the inner surface of the phospholipid bilayer or even to pass through the plasmamembrane (Figure 2).