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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2010

Fractional polymerization of a suspended planar bilayer creates a fluid, highly stable membrane for ion channel recordings.

Benjamin A Heitz, Ian W Jones, Henry K Hall, Craig A Aspinwall, S Scott Saavedra

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 authors.

Benjamin A HeitzDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry and BIO5 Institute, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, USA.
Ian W Jones
Henry K Hall
Craig A Aspinwall
S Scott Saavedra

Funding

Sniffer Biosensors Based on Ion Channel-GPCR Chimeras and Polylipid MembranesR01EB007047 · NIBIB · UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA · PI ASPINWALL, CRAIG A, SAAVEDRA, STEVEN SCOTT · 2006 to 2015
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NIBIB NIH HHS EB007047NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB007047
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Suspended planar lipid membranes (or black lipid membranes (BLMs)) are widely used for studying reconstituted ion channels, although they lack the chemical and mechanical stability needed for incorporation into high-throughput biosensors and biochips. Lipid polymerization enhances BLM stability but is incompatible with ion channel function when membrane fluidity is required. Here, we demonstrate the preparation of a highly stable BLM that retains significant fluidity by using a mixture of polymerizable and nonpolymerizable phospholipids. Alamethicin, a voltage-gated peptide channel for which membrane fluidity is required for activity, was reconstituted into mixed BLMs prepared using bis-dienoyl phosphatidylcholine (bis-DenPC) and diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine (DPhPC). Polymerization yielded BLMs that retain the fluidity required for alamethicin activity yet are stable for several days as compared to a few hours prior to polymerization. Thus, these polymerized, binary composition BLMs feature both fluidity and long-term stability.

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Membrane FluidityMembranes, ArtificialAlamethicinIon ChannelsLipid BilayersPhosphatidylcholinesPolymersSuspensionsTime FactorsAlamethicinIon ChannelsLipid BilayersMembranes, ArtificialPhosphatidylcholinesPolymersSuspensions

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PMID20441163
PMCPMC2882248

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