Membrane partitioning: distinguishing bilayer effects from the hydrophobic effect.
Membrane partitioning: distinguishing bilayer effects from the hydrophobic effect.
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膜分配:区分双层效应和疏水效应。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00076a001
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发表时间:
1993
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
White,SH
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作者:
Wimley,WC;White,SH
Revised Manuscript Received May 10, 1993 abstract: The free energy of transfer of nonpolar solutes from water to lipid bilayers is often dominated by a large negative enthalpy rather than the large positive entropy expected from the hydrophobic effect. This common observation has led to the concept of the “nonclassical” hydrophobic effect and the idea that the “classical” hydrophobic effect may not drive partitioning in many bilayer systems. We show through measurements of the heat capacity changes associated with the partitioning of tryptophan side-chain analogs into lipid bilayers and into bulk cyclohexane that the hydrophobic effect plays a crucial role regardless of the large negative enthalpy. The results emphasize that bulk-phasemeasurements are inadequate for describing bilayer partitioning. The experimental approach described should be generally useful for analyzing the bilayer interactions of a broad range of biologically important molecules.An important goal in the design of drugs is efficient movement across membrane barriers. The development of effective strategies to accomplish this goaldepends upon a clear understanding of the principles that govern the partitioning of nonpolar and amphipathic molecules into lipid bilayers. Experimental studies of the insertion and folding of membrane proteins, peptide-mediated membrane fusion, and the action of antibiotic peptides rely heavily on these principles as well. The major driving force for partitioning is widely assumed to be thehydrophobic effect as observed for partitioning into bulk nonpolar phases. However, evidence has accumulated during the past 20 years (Huang & Charlton, 1972; White, 1976, 1977; Simon et al., 1977, 1979; Seelig & Ganz, 1991; Marqusee & Dill, 1986) indicating that bilayer partitioning is much more complicated, as might have been anticipated from the fact that bilayers are anisotropic and chemically heterogeneous interfacial phases (Seelig & Seelig, 1977; Buldt et al., 1978; Wiener & White, 1992). The main