Effect of unsaturated phosphatidylethanolamine on the chain order profile of bilayers at the onset of the hexagonal phase transition. A 2H NMR study.
Effect of unsaturated phosphatidylethanolamine on the chain order profile of bilayers at the onset of the hexagonal phase transition. A 2H NMR study.
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不饱和磷脂酰乙醇胺对六方相变开始时双层链序分布的影响。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00503a010
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发表时间:
1990
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Hui,SW
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作者:
Fenske,DB;Jarrell,HC;Guo,Y;Hui,SW
Division of Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0R6, and Membrane Biophysics Laboratory, Roswell ParkMemorial Institute, Buffalo, New York 14263 Received March 19, 1990; Revised Manuscript Received August 22,¡ 990 abstract: The quadrupolar splitting profiles of methylene groups along the acyl chains of perdeuteriated dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC-í/54) in mixtures with dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DOPE) were studied by 2H NMR. The quadrupolar splittings, obtained for lipid mixtures in the bilayer state, were measured as functions of temperature and PE: PC ratio and were used to obtain the approximate gauche probabilities at a given chain position, pB. Ratios (R) of pB for Cl 3, Cl2, and Cl 1 relative to that of the plateau region were used to characterize the effect of increasing PE on the gauche content of PC chains. At all temperatures studied (including the bilayer to hexagonal phase transition region), for each ratio R (eg, J? ci3/p), the relative gauchecontent of the DMPC chains was similar over the range of 25-85% PE. DOPE is viewed in simple terms as having a “conical” shape; if this geometry applies to the acyl chain region of the molecule, a greater lateral pressure would be expected toward the center of the bilayer as the PE content is increased, resulting in a decreased gauche content, relative to theplateau, of those methylene groups of PC. The failure to observe thepredicted increase in lateral pressure has ramifications for the cone-shape molecular model. The overall “cone shape” of PE is seen to arise from the smaller size of the head-group relative to the acyl chains; however, the acyl chain region itself is not rigidly cone-shaped and is better represented by a flexible “balloon”. These results were supported by small-angle X-ray diffraction, which showed a decreasing trend in the area per molecule with increasingPE content.