PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF 1,2-DIPHYTANOYL-SN-GLYCERO-3-PHOSPHOCHOLINE IN MODEL MEMBRANE SYSTEMS

被引:143
作者
LINDSEY, H [1 ]
PETERSEN, NO [1 ]
CHAN, SI [1 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH,ARTHUR AMOS NOYES LAB CHEM PHYS,PASADENA,CA 91125
关键词
(Bilayer membrane; NMR); Diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine; Lateral phase separation; Phospholipid; Thermal phase transition;
D O I
10.1016/0005-2736(79)90079-8
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
We report here on a series of studies aimed at characterization of the structural and dynamical properties of the synthetic lipid diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine, in multilamellar dispersions and vesicle suspensions. This lipid exhibits no detectable gel to liquid crystalline phase transition over a large temperature range (-120°C to +120°C). Examination of proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) free induction decays obtained from multilayer dispersions of diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine provided an estimate of the methylene proton order parameter. The estimated magnitude of 0.21 is comparable to those determined for other phospholipids. Sonication of aqueous dispersions of diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine led to formation of bilayer vesicles as determined by the measurement of the outer/inner choline methyl proton resonances, vesicle sizes in electron micrographs, and comparison of proton NMR linewidths between multilayer and sonicated dispersions. Ultracentrifugation studies of diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine vesicles in H2O and 2H2O media yielded a value of 1.013 ± 0.026 ml/g for the partial specific volume of this lipid. We have measured spin lattice relaxation rates for the methyl and methylenemethyne protons of the hydrocarbon chains of diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine in bilayer vesicles over a range of temperatures and at two NMR frequencies (100 and 220 MHz). The observed relaxation rates for the methylene protons in this system were approximately twice those previously reported for dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine at comparable temperatures and resonance frequencies, whereas the relaxation rates measured for the methyl protons were greater than those of the straight chain lipid by an order of magnitude. Measurement of the spin lattice relaxation rates of the hydrocarbon protons of the diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine in a 10 mol% mixture of the branched-chain lipid in a deuterated host lipid, diperdeuteropalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine, showed a discontinuity in the temperature dependence of the proton NMR longitudinal relaxation rates of the branched-chain lipid in the region of the gel to liquid crystalline phase transition temperature of the deuterated dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine host lipid. This result may be taken as evidence of lateral phase separation of a liquid cyrstalline phase enriched in diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine from a gel phase enriched in diperdeuteropalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine at temperatures below the phase transition temperature of deuterated host lipid. This conclusion is supported by the observation of an abrupt change in the hydrocarbon methylene linewidth (at 100 MHz) of 10 mol% diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine in diperdeuteropalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine over the temperature range where lateral phase separation is taking place according to differential thermograms. © 1979.
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页数:21
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