Volume 233, 2022

Lateral voltage as a new input for artificial lipid bilayer systems

Abstract

In this work, we propose lateral voltage as a new input for use in artificial lipid bilayer systems in addition to the commonly used transmembrane voltage. To apply a lateral voltage to bilayer lipid membranes, we fabricated electrode-equipped silicon and Teflon chips. The Si chips could be used for photodetector devices based on fullerene-doped lipid bilayers, and the Teflon chips were used in a study of the ion channel functions in the lipid bilayer. The findings indicate that the lateral voltage effectively regulates the transmembrane current, in both ion-channel-incorporated and fullerene-incorporated lipid bilayer systems, suggesting that the lateral voltage is a practicable and useful additional input for use in lipid bilayer systems.

Graphical abstract: Lateral voltage as a new input for artificial lipid bilayer systems

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
27 7 2021
Accepted
02 9 2021
First published
02 9 2021

Faraday Discuss., 2022,233, 244-256

Author version available

Lateral voltage as a new input for artificial lipid bilayer systems

T. Ma, M. Sato, M. Komiya, K. Kanomata, T. Watanabe, X. Feng, R. Miyata, D. Tadaki, F. Hirose, Y. Tozawa and A. Hirano-Iwata, Faraday Discuss., 2022, 233, 244 DOI: 10.1039/D1FD00045D

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