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. 1969 Oct;9(10):1195–1205. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(69)86445-3

The Electrical Capacitance of Phospholipid Membranes

Shinpei Ohki
PMCID: PMC1367513  PMID: 5387906

Abstract

As one of the methods of finding out the structural change of lipid bilayers due to change of environmental solution, the capacitances of phosphatidyl choline (egg lecithin) and phosphatidyl serine (bovine brain) bilayer membranes in solutions of various pH and salt contents were measured. It was found that the capacitance of the bilayer depended upon pH and salt content. The capacitance had a minimum value around pH 4 for phosphatidyl choline and around pH 3-4 for phosphatidyl serine bilayers, respectively. The value of the capacitance increased as the pH of the solution became lower or higher. As the concentration of cholesterol in the phosphatidyl choline bilayer increased, the capacitance increased and reached a saturation value. A DC voltage across the phosphatidyl choline bilayer did not affect the value of the capacitance practically.

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