Structure and thermotropic properties of mixed-chain phosphatidylcholine bilayer membranes
Structure and thermotropic properties of mixed-chain phosphatidylcholine bilayer membranes
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00299a020
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发表时间:
1984-02
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2.9
通讯作者:
E. Serrallach;G. Haas;G. Shipley
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作者:
E. Serrallach;G. Haas;G. Shipley
E. N. Serrallach, G. H. de Haas, and GG Shipley* abstract: The structure and thermotropic properties of hy-drated l-myristoyl-2-palmitoyl-L-phosphatidylcholine (MPPC) and l-palmitoyl-2-myristoyl-L-phosphatidylcholine (PMPC) have been studied by X-ray diffraction and differential scan-ning calorimetry (DSC). After prolonged storage at-3 C, hydrated multilamellar dispersions of both MPPC and PMPC show two endothermictransitions of comparable enthalpies on initial heating. MPPC undergoes transitions at 26 C (AH= 8.0 kcal/mol of MPPC) and 34 C (AH= 8.1 kcal/mol of MPPC); PMPCexhibits transitions at lower temperatures, 17 C (AH= 7.7 kcal/mol of PMPC) and 27 C (AH= 7.8 kcal/mol of PMPC). For both MPPC and PMPC, only the higher temperature transition is readily reversible; the enthalpy associated with the lower temperature transition is progressively recovered with increasing incubation time at low temperatures, suggesting conversions, albeitkinetically complex, between metastable and stable phases. X-ray diffraction data show the presence of bilayer structures and a similar pattern of structural changes on heating for hydrated (50 wt%) MPPC and PMPC. Belowthe low-temperaturetransition aAhe structure and properties of 1, 2-diacyl-L-phosphatidyl-cholines (PC) 1 containing identical fatty acyl chains in the 1 and 2 positions on the glycerol backbone have been studied in detail by a wide variety of biophysical methods. A com-bination of scanning calorimetry and X-ray diffraction methods has been particularly valuable in describing the thermotropic transitions exhibited by hydrated PCs and elucidating the structural changes accompanying these phase changes. For hydrated 1, 2-dipalmitoyl-L-phosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and 1, 2-dimyristoyl-L-phosphatidylcholine (DMPC), for example, the two reversible transitions at approximately 35 and 41 C for DPPC and 13 and 24 C for DMPC correspond to gel—*-