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  • Title: A simple test for the sidedness of binding of transport inhibitors.
    Author: Devés R, Krupka RM.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1990 Nov 30; 1030(1):24-31. PubMed ID: 2265190.
    Abstract:
    A new method is described for determining the sidedness of action of nonpolar inhibitors that rapidly diffuse through the lipid bilayer and could therefore interact with the carrier on both sides of the membrane. Sidedness is deduced from the effect of the inhibitor on the flux ratio for the substrate (the ratio of the rates of exchange and net transport). The advantages of the method are that the experimental measurements are made after the inhibitor has equilibrated rather than in the brief period when it is present on only one side of the membrane, and that any reversible inhibitor can be tested, whether the inhibition mechanism is competitive, noncompetitive, uncompetitive, or mixed.
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