| Literature DB >> 8383997 |
K Yamauchi1, K Doi, Y Yoshida, M Kinoshita.
Abstract
Unlike ordinary glycero-lipids such as egg-yolk lecithin, 1,2-diphytanyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine, which was employed as a model lipid of archaebacterial acidophiles, gave liposomal membranes which were highly resistant to proton permeation in a wide temperature range (about 10-50 degrees C); the permeability coefficient and activation energy of the flux were 0.7 x 10(-5) cm/s at 20 degrees C and 24.5 kcal/mol, respectively. The high resistance to proton flow was attributed to a fluid and bulky isoprenoid chain-layer of the membrane.Entities:
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Year: 1993 PMID： 8383997 DOI： 10.1016/0005-2736(93)90353-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta ISSN： 0006-3002