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Thiourea and Potassium Permeability of Phospholipid Bilayer Membranes as affected by Enniatin B

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SOME cyclic antibiotics such as valinomycin, actins and enniatins are known to increase K+ permeability of some biological membranes1–3. Recently, Mueller and Rudin4 have demonstrated that the treatment by these cyclic peptides increases selectively K+ permeability across lipid bilayer membranes.

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  • 01 May 1968

    In the communication "Thiourea and Potassium Permeability of Phospholipid Bilayer Membranes as-affected by Enniatin B" by Claudio Lippe (Nature, 218, 196; 1968) on the eighth line of the third paragraph, page 196, "a 0.1 solution" should read "a 0.1 M solution". The second sentence of the seventh paragraph should read : "According to Vreeman7, however, lipid membranes have a sodium ion permeability coefficient (PNa +) which is at least two or three orders of magnitude lower .

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LIPPE, C. Thiourea and Potassium Permeability of Phospholipid Bilayer Membranes as affected by Enniatin B. Nature 218, 196–197 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/218196a0

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