Properties and structural basis of simple diffusion pathways in the erythrocyte membrane.
Properties and structural basis of simple diffusion pathways in the erythrocyte membrane.
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红细胞膜中简单扩散途径的特性和结构基础。
DOI:
10.1007/bfb0027721
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1977
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B. Deuticke
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B. Deuticke
The rapid development of new concepts and technical possibilities in the investigation of membrane phenomena, sustained by the growing interest of investigators from numerous disciplines, has provided in the past years a conspicuous body of information on the structure and function of cell membranes. Interest is focused either on the analysis of membrane composition and organization, or on the description of membrane functions. Among the latter, transport properties, responsible for the capability of membranes to serve as barriers or vectorial catalysts for downhill and uphill movements of matter, are a topic of major physiological and biomedical relevance. Historically, the characterization of such transport processes has primarily been concerned with their kinetics and led to mathematical descriptions of transfer systems, oriented at general concepts and known facts on diffusion and enzyme catalysis. The pathways postulated on this basis are of necessity analog models, to which, in principle, a considerable number of structural equivalents can be assigned. For a proper assignment, intimate knowledge about membrane organization is required. Only the consideration of both kinetic and structural features will render possible physically correct descriptions of the movement of molecules via their pathway in a membrane. Sufficient information for such an integrative description of transport pathways is presently at best available for a small number of objects. In case of eukaryotic, in particular mammalian cell membranes, the structural and functional analysis of erythrocyte membrane properties has reached a state, which may justify attempts to discuss transfer processes mainly in terms of their structural basis. The present review has been conceived under this aspect. To facilitate future work it shall furthermore serve the purpose to provide the" kineticist" with information on erythrocyte membrane constituents that may be relevant for the properties of pathways, and to outline to the" structural-