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We appreciate the generous sharing of ideas and preprints by other protonophiles. Particularly helpful were discussions with Peter C. Jordan, Wolfgang Junge, James D. Lear, John F. Nagle and others at the 1994 Gordon Conference on Protons and Membrane Reactions, and Peter S. Aronson, James E. Hall, Vladislav S. Markin, Stuart G. McLaughlin, Robert F. Rakowski, Louis Simchowitz, and Clifford L. Slayman. We thank Robert Meech for providing unlettered original figures. This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid from the American Heart Association with funds contributed by the American Heart Association of Metropolitan Chicago (to T.E.D.). Some toxins were kindly provided by Dr. Susan Gregory and Randy Rader of the Searle Pharmaceutical Company. We appreciate the careful lettering of figures by Donald S. Anderson.

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DeCoursey, T.E., Cherny, V.V. Voltage-activated hydrogen ion currents. J. Membarin Biol. 141, 203–223 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00235130

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