Cholesterol

Cholesterol is an additional component of the plasma membrane found in the animal cell that aids in keeping up the membrane's fluidity. It lies apace with phospholipid in the plasma membrane, that moist the impact of temperature on the membrane. Hence, these lipids act as a cushion, preventing lower temperatures from hindering fluidity and averting high temperatures from elevating fluidity excessively. So, cholesterol enlarges in both ways, the range of temperature in that the membrane is adequately fluid and subsequently functioning. Cholesterol is also involved in some other functions, like arranging collections of transmembrane proteins lipid rafts, also known as microdomains.