THE MEMBRANE CAPACITANCE OF THE SEA URCHIN EGG
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- 25 January 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of cell biology
- Vol. 3 (1), 103-110
- https://doi.org/10.1083/jcb.3.1.103
Abstract
1. The surface of the unfertilized sea urchin egg is folded and the folds are reversibly eliminated by exposing the egg to hypotonic sea water. If the plasma membrane is outside the layer of cortical granules, unfolding may explain why the membrane capacitance per unit area decreases (and does not increase) when a sea urchin egg is put into hypotonic sea water.Keywords
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