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Life itself depends on the maintenance of electric fields across cell membranes, and on the propagation of electric currents. Even unicellular organisms have been shown to generate, and in turn respond to, minute electric signals. Larger electric perturbations, applied in an experimental context, can activate membrane enzymes (Johnstone and Laris, 1980; Serpersu and Tsong, 1983, 1984), be utilized as an energy source for the biosynthesis of ATP or the creation of chemical gradients across membranes (Witt et al., 1976; Serpersu and Tsong, 1983; Knox and Tsong, 1984), or lead to the formation of “pores” in the membrane through which small molecules can passively diffuse into and out of the cell (Kinosita and Tsong, 1977 a, b; Neumann et al., 1982; Tsong, 1983). This latter process is known as electroporation.
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Astumian, R.D., Chock, P.B., Chauvin, F., Tsong, T.Y. (1988). Electroconformational Coupling and the Effects of Static and Dynamic Electric Fields on Membrane Transport. In: Markov, M., Blank, M. (eds) Electromagnetic Fields and Biomembranes. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-9507-6_7
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