Abstract
Model lipid bilayers tethered to a gold substrate with molecular tethers are constructed. The conductance versus temperature dependence curve is then obtained. Here, a method to measure the activation energy for translocation of an ion through existing transmembrane pores in a sparsely tethered bilayer lipid membranes is presented.
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Alobeedallah, H., Cornell, B.A., Coster, H. (2022). Measuring Activation Energies for Ion Transport Using Tethered Bilayer Lipid Membranes (tBLMs). In: Cranfield, C.G. (eds) Membrane Lipids. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2402. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1843-1_6
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