Abstract
Classical deductions concerning the manner in which water and nonelectrolytes traverse biological membranes have their origin in the observations of Overton(1) and Collander and Bärlund.(2) Overton formulated the generalization that the rate of penetration of nonelectrolytes into plant cells was proportional to their oil-water partition coefficient. Collander and Barlund confirmed these observations but noted that, in certain instances, the cellular permeability of solutes was related primarily to molecular size rather than lipid solubility. These two dissimilar phenomena led to the hypothesis that natural membranes were mosaic structures containing lipids and pores, or molecular sieves. The degree to which molecular size, rather than lipid solubility, regulated the penetration of solutes into cells was dependent on the fractional membrane area occupied by pores and the characteristics of the individual pores.(3) Current theories concerning membrane pores depend, in the main, on this hypothesis.
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Schafer, J.A., Andreoli, T.E. (1986). Principles of Water and Nonelectrolyte Transport across Membranes. In: Andreoli, T.E., Hoffman, J.F., Fanestil, D.D., Schultz, S.G. (eds) Physiology of Membrane Disorders. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2097-5_11
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