Buster D C, Hinton J F, Millett F S, Shungu D C
Department of Chemistry/Biochemistry, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville 72701.
Biophys J. 1988 Feb;53(2):145-52. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(88)83076-5.
A technique for investigating the gramicidin-facilitated transport of Na+ ions across lipid bilayers of large unilamellar vesicles under the condition of ionic equilibrium has been developed using a combination of heat incubation of the gramicidin with the vesicles and 23Na-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. Isolation of the two 23Na-NMR signals from the intra- and extravesicular Na+ with the shift reagent, dysprosium (III) tripolyphosphate, allows the equilibrium flux of Na+ through the gramicidin channels to be detected and treated as a two-site exchange process. This study indicates that the transport of Na+ through gramicidin channels is second order with respect to the gramicidin concentration.
已开发出一种技术,通过将短杆菌肽与大单层囊泡进行热孵育并结合23Na核磁共振(NMR)光谱,来研究在离子平衡条件下短杆菌肽促进Na+离子跨大单层囊泡脂质双层的转运。使用位移试剂三聚磷酸镝从囊泡内和囊泡外的Na+中分离出两个23Na-NMR信号,从而能够检测通过短杆菌肽通道的Na+平衡通量,并将其视为双位点交换过程。这项研究表明,Na+通过短杆菌肽通道的转运相对于短杆菌肽浓度是二级反应。