Differential scanning calorimetric studies of ethanol interactions with distearoylphosphatidylcholine: transition to the interdigitated phase.
Differential scanning calorimetric studies of ethanol interactions with distearoylphosphatidylcholine: transition to the interdigitated phase.
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乙醇与二硬脂酰磷脂酰胆碱相互作用的差示扫描量热研究:过渡到叉指相。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00497a015
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发表时间:
1990
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2.9
通讯作者:
Cutrera,TA
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作者:
Rowe,ES;Cutrera,TA
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, KansasCity, Kansas 66103, and Veterans Administration Medical Center, Kansas City, Missouri 64128 Received March 5, 1990; Revised Manuscript Received August 8, 1990 abstract: It is well established that ethanol and other amphipathic molecules induce the formation of a fully interdigitated gel phase in saturatedlike-chain phosphatidylcholines (PC’s). We have previously shown that the induction of interdigitation in PC’s by ethanol is dependent upon the alcohol concentration, the lipid chain length, and the temperature [Nambí, P., Rowe, ES, & McIntosh, T. J.(1988) Biochemistry 27, 9175-9182], In thepresent study, we have used high-sensitivity differential scanning calorimetry to investigate the transitions of distearoylphosphatidylcholine between the noninterdigitated and the interdigitated phases. The enthalpy of the L/to L^ I transition is approximately half that of the Lf to P/transition which occurs in the absence of ethanol. The reversibility of these transitions has also been investigated by employing both heating and cooling scans in order to establish the most stable phases as a function of temperature and ethanol concentration. It has been demonstrated that the transition to the interdigitated phase is reversible as a function of temperature. Kinetic studies on the reverse transition (LgI to L/) demonstrate that this transition can be very slow, requiring weeks to reachcompletion. The rate depends upontemperature and ethanol concentration. The slow phase changes mean that the lipid can exist for long periods of time in a phase structure which is not the most stable state. The biological significance of this type of lipid behavior is the implicationthat the phase structure of biological membranes may depend not only on the most stable phase structure of the lipids present but also on the synthetic pathway or other kinetic variables.Interdigitated lipid phases are among the most recently recognized stable phase states for lipids (McDaniel et al., 1983; McIntosh et al., 1983; Ranck et al., 1977; Huang et al., 1983; Slater & Huang, 1988). In 1983, we showed that ethanolhad a biphasic effect on the melting temperature of disaturated like-chain phosphatidylcholines (PC’s) 1 (Rowe, 1983) which was subsequently shown to be causedby induction of inter-digitation in the PC by ethanol (Simon & McIntosh, 1984; Simon et al., 1986). In like-chain PC’s, it is induced by a variety of additives including glycerol, methanol, ethylene glycol, benzyl alcohol, chlorpromazine, tetracaine, ethanol, thiocyanate ion (McDaniel et al., 1983; McIntosh et al., 1983; Cunningham & Lis, 1986; Slater & Huang, 1988), and the «-alcohols up to heptanol (Rowe & Nelson, 1990). In the absence of additives, dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and distearoylphosphatidylcholine (DSPC) go into the interdigitated phase at increased hydrostatic pressure (Braganza & Worcester, 1986; Prasad et al., 1987). The ether analogue of DPPC, dihexadecylphosphatidylcholine (DHPC), exists in the interdigitated state under normal pressures in the absence