PLANAR BILAYER CONDUCTANCE AND FLUORESCENCE STUDIES CONFIRM THE FUNCTION AND LOCATION OF A SYNTHETIC, SODIUM-ION-CONDUCTING CHANNEL IN A PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER MEMBRANE
PLANAR BILAYER CONDUCTANCE AND FLUORESCENCE STUDIES CONFIRM THE FUNCTION AND LOCATION OF A SYNTHETIC, SODIUM-ION-CONDUCTING CHANNEL IN A PHOSPHOLIPID BILAYER MEMBRANE
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平面双层电导和荧光研究证实了磷脂双层膜中合成钠离子传导通道的功能和位置
DOI:
10.1021/ja971098t
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发表时间:
1997
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
G. Gokel
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作者:
Ernesto Abel;G. E. Maguire;E. S. Meadows;Oscar Murillo;T. Jin;G. Gokel
Proteins that span membranes and mediate the transport of cations, anions, and molecules across the boundaries of cells and organelles are crucial to all life. This fact has made the study of transmembrane ion channels one of the most active areas in modern biological chemistry. 1, 2 The fundamental importance of this area and of the mechanistic questions concerning channel function cannot be overstated. Despite the enormous amount of information that has accumulated concerning which proteins are responsible for transport, physical chemical details of transport and selectivity remain largely obscure. 3 Supramolecular chemistry permits the design of compounds that possess properties similar to those apparent in natural systems but which can be studied in greater detail. 4 These principles have been applied in the development of synthetic channel model systems by us5 and by others. 6 We now report two novel, synthetic, cation-conducting channel compounds that incorporate fluorescent probes. 7 This permits the first assessment of a model channel’s position within a phosphilipid bilayer. We present three lines of evidence that relate to the channel compound’s position within the bilayer. These are (1) solvent shift of the fluorescent headgroup,(2) attempted energy transfer, and (3) the use of doxyl-labeled lipids. Data are also included that show the membrane permeability induced by one of the channel compounds, obtained by using a patch clamp amplifier and a bilayer head stage. The latter confirms the function of the compounds under study.Compounds 1 and 2, prepared for the present study, were both of the form R< N18N> C12< N18N> C12< N18N> R in which R is 2-(3-N-methylindolyl) ethyl (MeInE, 1) or 8-(dimethylamino) naphthalenesulfonyl (dansyl, Dn, 2). 8 Synthesis of 1 was accomplished by alkylation of 3-(2-bromoethyl) indole with CH3I (NaH, 91%, colorless oil). Reaction of the (bromoethyl) indole with 4, 13-diaza-18-crown-6 gave N-(N-methyl-3-