A Radical Point of View: Journey of a Free Radical in a Struggle Against Enzymes and the Body

Those poor lipids! The poor fatty acid you decided to pick on belonged to the phospholipid bilayer. You approached him, and whacked him with the ole lipid peroxidation trick. Thankfully, there was just one of you and the damage to the whole membrane wasn't so bad. If you had caused a chain reaction, or brought a whole bunch of friends, you could have disrupted the function of integral proteins and receptors in the plasma membrane. As it is, your nasty trick has slightly affected membrane fluidity of the membrane.

The End.