PROPERTIES OF LIQUID BILAYER MEMBRANES SEPARATING 2 AQUEOUS PHASES - TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF WATER PERMEABILITY
PROPERTIES OF LIQUID BILAYER MEMBRANES SEPARATING 2 AQUEOUS PHASES - TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE OF WATER PERMEABILITY
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(69)90287-3
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发表时间:
1969-01-01
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
THOMPSON, TE
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作者:
PRICE, HD;THOMPSON, TE
The temperature dependence of the water permeability of lipid bilayer membranes has been determined over the interval 7 to 49° C, by measuring the net volume flux produced by a NaCl gradient. The membranes were generated from solutions of lecithin and cholesterol in decane, either 0.5%(w/v) lecithin and 0.25% cholesterol (solution A) or 1% lecithin and 1% cholesterol (solution B). At 25° C, P os, the osmotic permeability coefficient, is 31.7±4.3 μ/sec and 24.4±3.7 μ/sec for membranes formed from solutions A and B, respectively. Plots of In (P os) versus 1 T are linear and yield values of 12.7±0.3 and 13.1±0.7 kcal./mole for the experimental activation energies E a. These results, together with literature data for the solubility and diffusion of water in hydrocarbons, are consistent with a simple solubility-diffusion mechanism for the water permeation process. The similarity between the values of both P os and E a for cellular membranes and the lipid bilayer suggests that a similar mechanism may operate in the biological systems.