Electrical noise from lipid bilayer membranes in the presence of hydrophobic ions
- 1 December 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in The Journal of Membrane Biology
- Vol. 37 (1), 321-345
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01940938
Abstract
In the presence of the hydrophobic ion dipicrylamine, lipid bilayer membranes exhibit a characteristic type of noise spectrum which is different from other forms of noise described so far. The spectral density of current noise measured at zero voltage increases in proportion to the square of frequency at low frequencies and becomes constant at high frequencies. The observed form of the noise spectrum can be interpreted on the basis of a transport model for hydrophobic ions in which it is assumed that the ions are adsorbed in potential-energy minima at either membrane surface and are able to cross the central energy barrier by thermal activation. Accordingly, current-noise results from random fluctuations in the number of ions jumping over the barrier from right to left and from left to right. On the basis of this model the rate constantk i for the translocation of the hydrophobic ion across the barrier, as well as the mean surface concentrationN t of adsorbed ions may be caluculated from the observed spectral intensity of current noise. The values ofk i obtained in this way closely agree with the results of previous relaxation experiments. A similar, although less quantitative, agreement is also found for the surface concentrationN t .This publication has 31 references indexed in Scilit:
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