intermembrane
Adjective
Meaning
intermembrane (not comparable)
Between membranes.
Examples
Chloroplastidan chloroplasts have lost the peptidoglycan wall between their double membrane, and have replaced it with an intermembrane space.
NADH and FADH 2 : the electron transport chain main Diagram of the electron transport chain in the mitonchondrial intermembrane space The redox energy from NADH and FADH 2 is transferred to oxygen (O 2 ) in several steps via the electron transport chain.
A transaminase converts the oxaloacetate to aspartate for transport back across the membrane and into the intermembrane space.
In all diagrams of respiratory complexes in this article, the matrix is at the bottom, with the intermembrane space above.
Intermembrane space The intermembrane space is the space between the outer membrane and the inner membrane.
The small vesicles sometimes observed may serve as transport vesicles to shuttle stuff between the thylakoids and intermembrane space.