High-conductance pathways in mitochondrial membranes.
The outer and inner membranes of mitochondria have recently been studied with the patch clamp technique. What has emerged is still an ill-defined picture for either membrane, primarily for the wide range of conductances found. Interestingly, however, a few conductances (in the range of 10-80 pS) seem to be ubiquitously distributed. Parallel studies in situ and in reconstituted systems have allowed the assignment to distinct membrane locations of some conductances, whose physiological role is, however, not yet elucidated.
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Laboratorio di Neurofisiologia, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Trieste, Italy.
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D000818:Animals; D004553:Electric Conductivity; D007425:Intracellular Membranes / Q000502:physiology*; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000502:physiology* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D011510:Proteolipids / Q000378:metabolism
D011510:Proteolipids; C020485:proteoliposomes