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MEMBRANES
卷 13, 期 8, 页码 -出版社
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/membranes13080722
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bioenergetics; proton transport; caged proton; interfacial proton diffusion; bilayer lipid membrane; boundary potential; membrane electrostatics; membrane capacitance
The lateral transport and release of protons at the water-membrane interface are important for cell bioenergetics. In this study, the kinetics of protons released from MNPS at the surface of a BLM were experimentally measured. A theoretical model describing the binding and release of protons at the membrane surface was developed. The results showed that the concentration of protons in the unstirred water layer near the BLM plays a crucial role in the rate-limiting step of proton release.
Lateral transport and release of protons at the water-membrane interface play crucial roles in cell bioenergetics. Therefore, versatile techniques need to be developed for investigating as well as clarifying the main features of these processes at the molecular level. Here, we experimentally measured the kinetics of binding of protons released from the photoactivated compound sodium 2-methoxy-5-nitrophenyl sulfate (MNPS) at the surface of a bilayer lipid membrane (BLM). We developed a theoretical model of this process describing the damage of MNPS coupled with the release of the protons at the membrane surface, as well as the exchange of MNPS molecules and protons between the membrane and solution. We found that the total change in the boundary potential difference across the membrane, increment ?f(b), is the sum of opposing effects of adsorption of MNPS anions and release of protons at the membrane-water interface. Steady-state change in the increment fb due to protons decreased with the concentration of the buffer and increased with the pH of the solution. The change in the concentration of protons evaluated from measurements of increment ?f(b) was close to that in the unstirred water layer near the BLM. This result, as well as rate constants of the proton exchange between the membrane and the bulk solution, indicated that the rate-limiting step of the proton surface to bulk release is the change in the concentration of protons in the unstirred layer. This means that the protons released from MNPS remain in equilibrium between the BLM surface and an adjacent water layer.
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