Biophysical Journal 73: 850-854 (1997)
© 1997 the Biophysical Society

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Effect of the dipole potential of a bilayer lipid membrane on gramicidin channel dissociation kinetics.

A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Russia.

ABSTRACT

A technique of measuring of the light-induced transients of the gramicidin-mediated electric current across a membrane in the presence of a photosensitizer has been applied for the study of the effect of agents modifying the dipole potential of a bilayer lipid membrane (phloretin, 6-ketocholestanol, and RH421) on the processes of the gramicidin channel dissociation and formation. It is shown that phloretin, known to lower the dipole potential, decelerates the flash-induced decrease in the current, whereas 6-ketocholestanol and RH421, known to raise the dipole potential, accelerate the current decrease. It is revealed that the addition of phloretin leads to a decrease in the dissociation rate constant, whereas addition of either 6-ketocholestanol or RH421 causes an increase in this constant. Single-channel data show that phloretin brings about an increase in the lifetime of the gramicidin channels, whereas RH421 produces a more complicated effect. It is conclude that the dipole potential affects the process of channel dissociation, presumably via the influence on the movement of the dipoles of gramicidin molecules through the layer of the dipole potential drop near the membrane-water interface.

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