Talk:Phospholipid

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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit · refresh) I think an entry on phosphatidyl glycerol should be added. I would do it except I don't understand how to add pictures to an article and last time I accidentally uploaded a picture they got mad at me for not sourcing it properly. Lash miller 01:55, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

I've updated the page a little with some extra general information about phospholipids, although it looks like someone may need to create an article on the Fluid-Mosaic Model used to describe phospholipid movement in cell membranes. I'll leave it to the experts, I think, since I'm not that great at lipid Biochemistry - Agaricus

I've just corrected the contradiciton in the paragraph on the ampiphiphatic character of phospholipides. Falk Lieder Aug 25 2005

The main picture on this article is hideous, not to mention misleading. I think it needs a standard picture in addition to what is there already. The current picture shows why it is a polar molecule; this would be useful for describing why it forms membranes, but not for showing what the structure of the molecule is. So that picture might be moved into the body of the article. Fuzzform 02:26, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

I totally agree. Karol 10:12, 9 April 2006 (UTC)

Does anyone else feel that the section title "Synthesis" should be changed to "Biosynthesis", to indicate that the section is about the natural biosynthesis in the cell, as opposed to a synthetic chemical strategy ? I couldn't tell if it was a description of what happens in the cell or what an organic chemist may do to make phospholipids at the bench. "Synthesis" vs. "Biosynthesis" could equally apply as an ambiguity in the articles of many biomolecules, I just noticed it here first. --Pansapiens 06:26, 9 November 2006 (UTC)