ANATOMY OF AMPHOTERICIN-B-CHOLESTEROL PORES IN LIPID BILAYER MEMBRANES
ANATOMY OF AMPHOTERICIN-B-CHOLESTEROL PORES IN LIPID BILAYER MEMBRANES
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DOI:
10.1038/ki.1973.126
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发表时间:
1973-01-01
影响因子:
19.6
通讯作者:
ANDREOLI, TE
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作者:
ANDREOLI, TE
There is abundant experimental evidence, summarized previously by Lampen [1] and by Kinsky, Luse and Van Deenen [2], which indicates that the lytic effects of polyene antibiotics such as amphotericin B on fungi and other susceptible microorganisms [31 are referable to in-creases in the solute permeability of plasma membranes produced by interactions of the antibiotic with membranebound sterols. Similarly, the antibiotic increases the per-meability of the toad urinary bladder to urea, thiourea, potassium and chloride [4, 5] and of the erythrocyte to potassium [6], sodium, chloride and hydrophilic non-electrolytes smaller than sucrose [7, 8]. Further, it may be that the hypokalemia [9—121, renal sodium wasting [11], and gradient-limited renal tubular acidosis [13] observed in the course of systemic therapy with amphotericin B may be the consequence of comparable effects of the antibiotic on transport events in the distal nephron. Accordingly, it seems reasonable to inquire into the possible mechanisms by which amphotericin B modifies the permeability of natural membranes.One approach to the problem, utilized in this [14—20] and other [21—23] laboratories, has been to analyze the effects of polyene antibiotics on dissipative transport processes in planar lipid bilayer membranes of the type first described by Mueller et al [24]. The purpose of the present editorial is two-fold: first, to summarize certain of the observations which indicate that the interactions of amphotericin B (or nystatin, a polyene antibiotic nearly identical in structure [25, 26] to amphotericin B) with membrane-bound choles-terol or other appropriate sterols [161 result in the formation of aqueous pores; and second, to provide an hypothesis for the partial structure of amphotericin B-choles-terol pores and their effect on membrane function [20]. Stereochemistry of amphotericin B and cholesterol. Fig. 1 indicates the chemical structure and absolute configuration