Sengel, Jason T. Wallace, Mark I. Experimental Methods; Figures S1 and S2 from Measuring the potential energy barrier to lipid bilayer electroporation Electroporation is a common tool for gene transfection, tumour ablation, sterilization and drug delivery. Using experimental methods, we explore the temperature dependence of electropore formation in a model membrane system (droplet-interface bilayers), using optical single-channel recording to image the real-time gating of individual electropores. We investigate the influence of the agarose substrate on electropores formed in this system. Furthermore, by examining the temperature-dependent kinetics of pore opening and closure we are able to estimate a barrier to pore opening in 1,2-diphytanoyl-<i>sn</i>-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPhPC) membranes to be 25.0 ± 8.3 <i>k</i><sub>B</sub><i>T</i>, in agreement with previous predictions. Overall these measurements help support the toroidal model of membrane electroporation.This article is part of the themed issue ‘Membrane pores: from structure and assembly, to medicine and technology’. electroporation;droplet interface bilayer;optical microscopy;optical single channelrecording;DPhPC;energy barrier 2017-05-08
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