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LANGMUIR
卷 28, 期 45, 页码 15824-15830出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la302676t
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- NIH, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
We demonstrate that the cation-selective channel formed by gramicidin A can be used as a reliable sensor for studying. the Multivalent ion accumulation at the surfaces. of charged lipid membranes and the ''charge inversion phenomenon. In asymmetrically charged membranes with the individual leaflets formed from pure negative and positive lipids bathed by 0.1 M CsCl solutions the Channel exhibits.. current rectification, which is comparable to that of a typical n/p semiconductor diode. We show that even at these highly asymmetrical conditions the channel conductance can be satisfactorily described by the electrodiffusion equation in the constant field approximation but, due to predictable limitations, only when the applied voltages do not exceed SO mV. Analysis of the changes in the voltage dependent channel conductance upon addition of trivalent cations allows us to gauge their interactions with the membrane surface. The inversion of the sign of the effective surface charge takes place at the concentrations, which correlate with the cation size. Specifically, these concentrations are close to 0.05 mM for lanthanum, 0.25 mM for hexaamminecobalt, and 4 mM for spermidine.
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