Phospholipid bilayer membranes were bathed in a decimolar solution of monovalent ions, and the conductance produced by neutral carriers of these monovalent cations and anions was used to assess the electric potential at the surface of the membrane. When the bilayers were formed from a neutral lipid, phosphatidylethanolamine, the addition of alkaline earth cations produced no detectable surface ...

Four new architectures containing [Co2Mo10H4O38]6- polyoxoanions, (C2N2H10)2[Sr(H2O)5][Co2Mo10H4O38]·2H2O 1, (C2N2H10)2[Ba(H2O)3][Co2Mo10H4O38]·3H2O 2, (C3N2H12)2[Sr(H2O)5][Co2Mo10H4O38]·3H2O 3 and (C3N2H12)[Ba(H2O)4][Ba(H2O)4][Co2Mo10H4O38]·2H2O 4 (C2N2H10 = ethylenediamine; C3N2H12 = 1,3-propanediamine) have been synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, IR spectroscopy, solid diff...

1. Alkaline-earth-metal cations at low concentrations form soluble complexes with bovine caseins. The relative order of binding capacities is: Mg(2+)>Ca(2+)>Ba(2+)>Sr(2+). 2. The cations interact with both free ionized carboxyl groups of aspartic acid and glutamic acid and with monoester phosphate groups covalently bound to serine and threonine; at low concentrations of the cations interactions...