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Biophys J, February 2002, p. 865-873, Vol. 82, No. 2

Membrane Dipole Potential Modulates Proton Conductance through Gramicidin Channel: Movement of Negative Ionic Defects inside the Channel

Tatyana I. Rokitskaya, Elena A. Kotova, and Yuri N. Antonenko

A. N. Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology, Moscow State University, Moscow 119899 Russia

The effect of membrane dipole potential on gramicidin channel activity in bilayer lipid membranes (BLMs) was studied. Remarkably, it appeared that proton conductance of gramicidin A (gA) channels responded to modulation of the dipole potential oppositely as compared with gA alkali metal cation conductance. In particular, the addition of phloretin, known to reduce the membrane dipole potential, resulted in a decrease in gA proton conductance, on one hand, and an increase in gA alkali metal conductance, on the other hand, whereas 6-ketocholestanol, the agent raising the membrane dipole potential, provoked an increase in gA proton conductance as opposed to a decrease in the alkali metal cation conductance. The peculiarity of the 6-ketocholestanol effect consisted in its dependence on the H+ concentration. The experiments with the impermeant dipolar compound, phloridzin, showed that the response of proton transport through gramicidin channels to varying the membrane dipole potential did not change qualitatively if the dipole potential of only one monolayer or both monolayers of the BLM was altered. In contrast to gA proton conductance, the single-channel lifetime changed similarly with varying the membrane dipole potential, regardless of the kind of permeant cations (protons or potassium ions). The results of this study could be tentatively accounted for by an assumption that one of the rate-limiting steps of proton conduction through gramicidin channels represents, in fact, movement of negatively charged species (negative ionic defects) across a membrane.

Biophys J, February 2002, p. 865-873, Vol. 82, No. 2
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