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DIELECTRIC studies have shown that the low electric conductivity of many biological cells originates in an extremely thin layer—apparently of the order of 30 A. thick—located somewhere in the cell envelope, presumably in the cytoplasmic surface structure1. This insulating structure is called here the ‘low-conductance surface membrane’.
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FRICKE, H., SCHWAN, H., LI, K. et al. A Dielectric Study of the Low-Conductance Surface Membrane in E. coli . Nature 177, 134–135 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/177134a0
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