PHASE-TRANSITIONS IN MONOGLYCERIDE BILAYERS - A LIGHT-SCATTERING STUDY
PHASE-TRANSITIONS IN MONOGLYCERIDE BILAYERS - A LIGHT-SCATTERING STUDY
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DOI:
10.1016/s0006-3495(86)83716-x
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发表时间:
1986-04-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
EARNSHAW, JC
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作者:
CRAWFORD, GE;EARNSHAW, JC
Thermotropic phase transitions in single planar bilayers of glycerol mono-oleate have been investigated using quasi-elastic light scattering from thermally excited membrane fluctuations. In certain cases both spectroscopic and intensity information were derived from the observations. For solvent-free bilayers transitional changes were observed in several membrane parameters: in tension, viscosity and thickness, in a combination of lipid orientational order parameter and dielectric anisotropy, and in the lateral compression modulus. These changes, particularly those in membrane thickness and in the anisotropy/order combination, were clearly indicative of a chain-melting transition in the lipid molecules. The chain-melting transition temperature was identified as 16.6 .+-. 0.03.degree. C (.DELTA.T1/2 = 1.5.degree. C). The other changes tended to cluster around 12.5 and 16.6.degree. C, suggesting that a two-stage transition was involved. Analysis of pretransitional fluctuations in membrane viscosity, based on a Landau approach, suggested that at the transition the membrane was close to a critical point (T* = 12.7.degree. C). Less information was accessible for membranes containing n-decane within their structure. In this case, the change in membrane tension was much smaller than in the solvent-free case and the transition was considerably broadened. These effects accord with an increase in ''interactive volume'' within the bilayer due to solvent inclusion.