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The volume change of sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles was followed by measuring the light scattering intensity. When the salt concentration of the suspension of sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles was increased by using a stopped flow apparatus, the light scattering intensity rapidly increased at the beginning and then decreased. The fast increase in the light scattering intensity is caused by the decrease of the volume of sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles due to the outflow of water. The following decrease in the light scattering intensity is caused by the increase of the volume due to the inflow of the solutes and water. From the former and the latter rates, the permeation times of water and the solutes could be calculated, respectively. According to the same method, permeation times of various salts were determined. The rate of the inflow of the salts was dependent on the movement of the slower ions, that is, ions move as a pair.
In the case of potassium salts, an increase in the permeation rate of the salts was observed when valinomycin was added to the membrane suspensions. From these experiments, as a measure of permeability, half permeation times of various ions and molecules were determined. The following are typical results: water 0.1, Li+ 36, Na+ 26, K+ 20, Rb+ 16, Cl− 0.4, methanesulfonate 20, phosphate 10.5, oxalate 40 in seconds at room temperature. As a whole, sarcoplasmic reticulum was found to be an anion permeable membrane.
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Kometani, T., Kasai, M. Ionic permeability of sarcoplasmic reticulum vesicles measured by light scattering method. J. Membrain Biol. 41, 295–308 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01871994
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