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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES
Volume 1561, Issue 2, Pages 222-229Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2736(02)00347-4
Keywords
electroporation; resealing of pores; lifetime of pores; bilayer lipid membrane; chronopotentiometry
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This paper presents the application of chromopotentiometry in the study of membrane electroporation. Chromopotentiometry with a Programmable current intensity was used. The experiments were performed on planar bilayer phosphatidylcholine and cholesterol membranes formed by the Mueller-Rudin method. It was demonstrated that a constant-intensity current flow through the bilayer membranes generated voltage fluctuations during electroporation. These fluctuations (following an increase and decrease in membrane conductance) were interpreted as a result of the opening and closing of pores in membrane structures. The decrease in membrane potential to zero did not cause the pore to close immediately. The pore was maintained for about 200 s. The closing of the pore and recovery of the continuous structure of the membrane proceeded not only when the membrane potential equalled zero, but also at membrane potentials up to several tens of millivolts. The fluctuations of the pore were possible at values of membrane potential in the order of at least 100 mV. The size of the pore changed slightly and it closed after some time below this potential value. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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