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Biophysical Journal 45: 491-494 (1984)
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Water permeability through biological membranes by isotopic effects of fluorescence and light scattering.

R Lawaczeck

ABSTRACT

A light-scattering technique used to measure the water permeability across closed biomembranes is described, which is based on the different indices of refraction of D2O and H2O. This transient technique is compared with a similar method using D2O-sensitive fluorophores in the intravesicular space. The results of both techniques are equivalent although the signal-to-noise ratio favors the light-scattering or turbidity experiment. The light-scattering method is only applicable to larger particles (no point-scatterers) and is easily extended to biological objects. Data on the H2O/D2O exchange across membranes of ghosts from human erythrocytes suggest two mechanisms: the D2O and H2O permeation through the membrane and a slower D2O-induced conformational change of membraneous proteins.




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