You Are Working in a Laboratory Trying to Design a Drug

question 6

Multiple Choice

You are working in a laboratory trying to design a drug that specifically binds to the surface of certain cells. To which membrane lipid constituents should your drug bind in order to achieve this specificity?

• A) sphingomyelins
• B) phosphatidylcholines
• C) gangliosides
• D) triacylglycerols
• E) sterols

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