Specific Ion Interaction Dominates over Hydrophobic Matching Effects in Peptide–Lipid Bilayer Interactions: The Case of Short Peptide
Specific Ion Interaction Dominates over Hydrophobic Matching Effects in Peptide–Lipid Bilayer Interactions: The Case of Short Peptide
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DOI:
10.1021/jp411413u
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发表时间:
2013-12
影响因子:
3.7
通讯作者:
Feng Wei;Hongchun Li;Shuji Ye
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作者:
Feng Wei;Hongchun Li;Shuji Ye
Insertion of short peptides into the cell membrane is energetically unfavorable and challenges the commonly accepted hydrophobic matching principle. Yet there has been evidence that many short peptides can penetrate into the cells to perform the biological functions in salt solution. On the basis of the previous study (J. Phys. Chem. C 2013, 117, 11095−11103), here we further performed a systematic study on the interaction of mastoparan with various neutral lipid bilayers with different lipid chain lengths in situ to examine the hydrophobic matching principle in different aqueous salt environments using sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy. It is found that the hydrophobic matching is the dominant driving force for the association of MP with a lipid bilayer in a pure water environment. However, in a kosmotropic ion environment, the hydration of ions can overcome the hydrophobic mismatching effects, leading to the insertion of MP into lipid bilayers with much longer hydrophobic lengths. When t...