Estimation of surface charges in some biological membranes |
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Authors: | Lakshminarayanaiah N. Murayama K. |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Pharmacology, University of Pennsylvania Medical School, 19174 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania;(2) Present address: Department of Physiology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan |
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Abstract: | Summary The resting membrane potential data existing in the literature for the giant axon of the squid, frog muscle and barnacle muscle have been analyzed from the standpoint of the theory of membrane potential due to Kobatake and co-workers. The average values derived for the effective charge density (where is a constant,, and represents the fraction of counterions that are free, and is the stoichiometric charge density in the membrane) present on the different biomembranes existing in their normal ionic environment are 0.3, 0.325 and 0.17 M for the squid axon, frog and barnacle muscles, respectively. On the assumption that the values of are 0.4 and 0.2 for nerve and muscle membranes, respectively, values of 0.75, 1.62 and 0.85 M have been derived for the stoichiometric charge density present in the respective biological membranes. These correspond to 1 negative charge per 222, 103 and 195 Å of the membrane area of the squid axon, frog and barnacle muscles, respectively. |
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