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Nickels JD, Smith JC, Cheng X. Lateral organization, bilayer asymmetry, and inter-leaflet coupling of biological membranes. Chem Phys Lipids 2015; 192:87-99. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2015.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2015] [Revised: 07/20/2015] [Accepted: 07/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Bilayer membrane interactions with nanofabricated scaffolds. Chem Phys Lipids 2015; 192:75-86. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2015.07.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2015] [Revised: 07/16/2015] [Accepted: 07/25/2015] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Konyakhina TM, Feigenson GW. Phase diagram of a polyunsaturated lipid mixture: Brain sphingomyelin/1-stearoyl-2-docosahexaenoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine/cholesterol. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2015; 1858:153-61. [PMID: 26525664 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2015.10.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2015] [Revised: 09/28/2015] [Accepted: 10/21/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Phospholipids having a polyunsaturated acyl chain are abundant in biological membranes, but their behavior in lipid mixtures is difficult to study. Here we elucidate the nature of such mixtures with this report of the first ternary phase diagram containing the polyunsaturated lipid SDPC in mixtures of BSM/SDPC/Chol (brain sphingomyelin/1-stearoyl-2-docosahexaenoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine/cholesterol). These mixtures show coexisting macroscopic liquid-disordered (Ld) and liquid-ordered (Lo) phase separation, with phase boundaries determined by FRET and by fluorescence microscopy imaging of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). Surprisingly, SDPC mixes with BSM/Chol similarly to how DOPC and POPC mix with BSM/Chol. Notably, intermediate states are produced within the Ld+Lo liquid-liquid immiscibility region upon addition of fourth component POPC. These mixtures of BSM/SDPC/POPC/Chol exhibit nanoscopic Ld+Lo domains over a very large volume of composition space, possibly because Ld/Lo line tension is not high.
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- Tatyana M Konyakhina
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
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Nickels JD, Cheng X, Mostofian B, Stanley C, Lindner B, Heberle FA, Perticaroli S, Feygenson M, Egami T, Standaert RF, Smith JC, Myles DAA, Ohl M, Katsaras J. Mechanical Properties of Nanoscopic Lipid Domains. J Am Chem Soc 2015; 137:15772-80. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b08894] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Jonathan D. Nickels
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
- Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Center
for Molecular Biophysics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Department
of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Center
for Molecular Biophysics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Center
for Molecular Biophysics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Department
of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Center
for Molecular Biophysics, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Department
of Biochemistry and Cellular and Molecular Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Jülich Center for Neutron Science, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak
Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Department
of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
- Joint Institute for Neutron Sciences, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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Mahadeo M, Nathoo S, Ganesan S, Driedger M, Zaremberg V, Prenner EJ. Disruption of lipid domain organization in monolayers of complex yeast lipid extracts induced by the lysophosphatidylcholine analogue edelfosine in vivo. Chem Phys Lipids 2015; 191:153-62. [PMID: 26386399 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2015.09.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/16/2015] [Revised: 09/08/2015] [Accepted: 09/15/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The lysophosphatidylcholine analogue edelfosine is a potent antitumor and antiparasitic drug that targets cell membranes. Previous studies have shown that edelfosine alters membrane domain organization inducing internalization of sterols and endocytosis of plasma membrane transporters. These early events affect signaling pathways that result in cell death. It has been shown that edelfosine preferentially partitions into more rigid lipid domains in mammalian as well as in yeast cells. In this work we aimed at investigating the effect of edelfosine on membrane domain organization using monolayers prepared from whole cell lipid extracts of cells treated with edelfosine compared to control conditions. In Langmuir monolayers we were able to detect important differences to the lipid packing of the membrane monofilm. Domain formation visualized by means of Brewster angle microscopy also showed major morphological changes between edelfosine treated versus control samples. Importantly, edelfosine resistant cells defective in drug uptake did not display the same differences. In addition, co-spread samples of control lipid extracts with edelfosine added post extraction did not fully mimic the results obtained with lipid extracts from treated cells. Altogether these results indicate that edelfosine induces changes in membrane domain organization and that these changes depend on drug uptake. Our work also validates the use of monolayers derived from complex cell lipid extracts combined with Brewster angle microscopy, as a sensitive approach to distinguish between conditions associated with susceptibility or resistance to lysophosphatidylcholine analogues.
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- Mark Mahadeo
- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada.
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Heberle FA, Anghel VN, Katsaras J. Scattering from phase-separated vesicles. I. An analytical form factor for multiple static domains. J Appl Crystallogr 2015. [DOI: 10.1107/s160057671501362x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/03/2023] Open
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This is the first in a series of papers considering elastic scattering from laterally heterogeneous lipid vesicles containing multiple domains. Unique among biophysical tools, small-angle neutron scattering can in principle give detailed information about the size, shape and spatial arrangement of domains. A general theory for scattering from laterally heterogeneous vesicles is presented, and the analytical form factor for static domains with arbitrary spatial configuration is derived, including a simplification for uniformly sized round domains. The validity of the model, including series truncation effects, is assessed by comparison with simulated data obtained from a Monte Carlo method. Several aspects of the analytical solution for scattering intensity are discussed in the context of small-angle neutron scattering data, including the effect of varying domain size and number, as well as solvent contrast. The analysis indicates that effects of domain formation are most pronounced when the vesicle's average scattering length density matches that of the surrounding solvent.
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Scholtysek P, Shah SWH, Müller SS, Schöps R, Frey H, Blume A, Kressler J. Unusual triskelion patterns and dye-labelled GUVs: consequences of the interaction of cholesterol-containing linear-hyperbranched block copolymers with phospholipids. SOFT MATTER 2015; 11:6106-6117. [PMID: 26133098 DOI: 10.1039/c5sm01017a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Cholesterol (Ch) linked to a linear-hyperbranched block copolymer composed of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) and poly(glycerol) (hbPG) was investigated for its membrane anchoring properties. Two polyether-based linear-hyperbranched block copolymers with and without a covalently attached rhodamine fluorescence label (Rho) were employed (Ch-PEG30-b-hbPG23 and Ch-PEG30-b-hbPG17-Rho). Compression isotherms of co-spread 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) or 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) with the respective polymers were measured on the Langmuir trough and the morphology development of the liquid-condensed (LC) domains was studied by epi-fluorescence microscopy. LC domains were strongly deformed due to the localization of the polymers at the domain interface, indicating a line activity for both block copolymers. Simultaneously, it was observed that the presence of the fluorescence label significantly influences the domain morphology, the rhodamine labelled polymer showing higher line activity. Adsorption isotherms of the polymers to the water surface or to monolayers of DPPC and 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC), respectively, were collected. Again the rhodamine labelled polymer showed higher surface activity and a higher affinity for insertion into lipid monolayers, which was negligibly affected when the sub-phase was changed to aqueous sodium chloride solution or phosphate buffer. Calorimetric investigations in bulk confirmed the results found using tensiometry. Confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) also confirmed the polymers' fast adsorption to and insertion into phospholipid membranes.
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- Peggy Scholtysek
- Institute of Chemistry, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, von-Danckelmann-Platz 4, D-06120 Halle (Saale), Germany.
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Cheng CY, Olijve LLC, Kausik R, Han S. Cholesterol enhances surface water diffusion of phospholipid bilayers. J Chem Phys 2015; 141:22D513. [PMID: 25494784 DOI: 10.1063/1.4897539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Elucidating the physical effect of cholesterol (Chol) on biological membranes is necessary towards rationalizing their structural and functional role in cell membranes. One of the debated questions is the role of hydration water in Chol-embedding lipid membranes, for which only little direct experimental data are available. Here, we study the hydration dynamics in a series of Chol-rich and depleted bilayer systems using an approach termed (1)H Overhauser dynamic nuclear polarization (ODNP) NMR relaxometry that enables the sensitive and selective determination of water diffusion within 5-10 Å of a nitroxide-based spin label, positioned off the surface of the polar headgroups or within the nonpolar core of lipid membranes. The Chol-rich membrane systems were prepared from mixtures of Chol, dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine and/or dioctadecyl phosphatidylcholine lipid that are known to form liquid-ordered, raft-like, domains. Our data reveal that the translational diffusion of local water on the surface and within the hydrocarbon volume of the bilayer is significantly altered, but in opposite directions: accelerated on the membrane surface and dramatically slowed in the bilayer interior with increasing Chol content. Electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) lineshape analysis shows looser packing of lipid headgroups and concurrently tighter packing in the bilayer core with increasing Chol content, with the effects peaking at lipid compositions reported to form lipid rafts. The complementary capability of ODNP and EPR to site-specifically probe the hydration dynamics and lipid ordering in lipid membrane systems extends the current understanding of how Chol may regulate biological processes. One possible role of Chol is the facilitation of interactions between biological constituents and the lipid membrane through the weakening or disruption of strong hydrogen-bond networks of the surface hydration layers that otherwise exert stronger repulsive forces, as reflected in faster surface water diffusivity. Another is the concurrent tightening of lipid packing that reduces passive, possibly unwanted, diffusion of ions and water across the bilayer.
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- Chi-Yuan Cheng
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Laboratory of Macromolecular and Organic Chemistry and Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Materials Research Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
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Schubert T, Römer W. How synthetic membrane systems contribute to the understanding of lipid-driven endocytosis. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR CELL RESEARCH 2015. [PMID: 26211452 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamcr.2015.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Synthetic membrane systems, such as giant unilamellar vesicles and solid supported lipid bilayers, have widened our understanding of biological processes occurring at or through membranes. Artificial systems are particularly suited to study the inherent properties of membranes with regard to their components and characteristics. This review critically reflects the emerging molecular mechanism of lipid-driven endocytosis and the impact of model membrane systems in elucidating the complex interplay of biomolecules within this process. Lipid receptor clustering induced by binding of several toxins, viruses and bacteria to the plasma membrane leads to local membrane bending and formation of tubular membrane invaginations. Here, lipid shape, and protein structure and valency are the essential parameters in membrane deformation. Combining observations of complex cellular processes and their reconstitution on minimal systems seems to be a promising future approach to resolve basic underlying mechanisms. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled: Mechanobiology.
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- Thomas Schubert
- Faculty of Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Schänzlestraße 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; BIOSS - Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Schänzlestraβe 18, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
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- Faculty of Biology, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Schänzlestraße 1, 79104 Freiburg, Germany; BIOSS - Centre for Biological Signalling Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Schänzlestraβe 18, 79104 Freiburg, Germany.
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Walde P, Umakoshi H, Stano P, Mavelli F. Emergent properties arising from the assembly of amphiphiles. Artificial vesicle membranes as reaction promoters and regulators. Chem Commun (Camb) 2015; 50:10177-97. [PMID: 24921467 DOI: 10.1039/c4cc02812k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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This article deals with artificial vesicles and their membranes as reaction promoters and regulators. Among the various molecular assemblies which can form in an aqueous medium from amphiphilic molecules, vesicle systems are unique. Vesicles compartmentalize the aqueous solution in which they exist, independent on whether the vesicles are biological vesicles (existing in living systems) or whether they are artificial vesicles (formed in vitro from natural or synthetic amphiphiles). After the formation of artificial vesicles, their aqueous interior (the endovesicular volume) may become - or may be made - chemically different from the external medium (the exovesicular solution), depending on how the vesicles are prepared. The existence of differences between endo- and exovesicular composition is one of the features on the basis of which biological vesicles contribute to the complex functioning of living organisms. Furthermore, artificial vesicles can be formed from mixtures of amphiphiles in such a way that the vesicle membranes become molecularly, compositionally and organizationally highly complex, similarly to the lipidic matrix of biological membranes. All the various properties of artificial vesicles as membranous compartment systems emerge from molecular assembly as these properties are not present in the individual molecules the system is composed of. One particular emergent property of vesicle membranes is their possible functioning as promoters and regulators of chemical reactions caused by the localization of reaction components, and possibly catalysts, within or on the surface of the membranes. This specific feature is reviewed and highlighted with a few selected examples which range from the promotion of decarboxylation reactions, the selective binding of DNA or RNA to suitable vesicle membranes, and the reactivation of fragmented enzymes to the regulation of the enzymatic synthesis of polymers. Such type of emergent properties of vesicle membranes may have been important for the prebiological evolution of protocells, the hypothetical compartment systems preceding the first cells in those chemical and physico-chemical processes that led to the origin of life.
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- Peter Walde
- Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 5, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland.
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Pazos IM, Ahmed IA, Berríos MIL, Gai F. Sensing pH via p-cyanophenylalanine fluorescence: Application to determine peptide pKa and membrane penetration kinetics. Anal Biochem 2015; 483:21-6. [PMID: 25935260 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2015.04.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2015] [Revised: 04/23/2015] [Accepted: 04/24/2015] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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We expand the spectroscopic utility of a well-known infrared and fluorescence probe, p-cyanophenylalanine, by showing that it can also serve as a pH sensor. This new application is based on the notion that the fluorescence quantum yield of this unnatural amino acid, when placed at or near the N-terminal end of a polypeptide, depends on the protonation status of the N-terminal amino group of the peptide. Using this pH sensor, we are able to determine the N-terminal pKa values of nine tripeptides and also the membrane penetration kinetics of a cell-penetrating peptide. Taken together, these examples demonstrate the applicability of using this unnatural amino acid fluorophore to study pH-dependent biological processes or events that accompany a pH change.
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- Ileana M Pazos
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
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Ackerman DG, Feigenson GW. Multiscale modeling of four-component lipid mixtures: domain composition, size, alignment, and properties of the phase interface. J Phys Chem B 2015; 119:4240-50. [PMID: 25564922 DOI: 10.1021/jp511083z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Simplified lipid mixtures are often used to model the complex behavior of the cell plasma membrane. Indeed, as few as four components-a high-melting lipid, a nandomain-inducing low-melting lipid, a macrodomain-inducing low-melting lipid, and cholesterol (chol)-can give rise to a wide range of domain sizes and patterns that are highly sensitive to lipid compositions. Although these systems are studied extensively with experiments, the molecular-level details governing their phase behavior are not yet known. We address this issue by using molecular dynamics simulations to analyze how phase separation evolves in a four-component system as it transitions from small domains to large domains. To do so, we fix concentrations of the high-melting lipid 16:0,16:0-phosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and chol, and incrementally replace the nanodomain-inducing low-melting lipid 16:0,18:2-PC (PUPC) by the macrodomain-inducing low-melting lipid 18:2,18:2-PC (DUPC). Coarse-grained simulations of this four-component system reveal that lipid demixing increases as the amount of DUPC increases. Additionally, we find that domain size and interleaflet alignment change sharply over a narrow range of replacement of PUPC by DUPC, indicating that intraleaflet and interleaflet behaviors are coupled. Corresponding united atom simulations show that only lipids within ∼2 nm of the phase interface are significantly perturbed regardless of domain composition or size. Thus, whereas the fraction of interface-perturbed lipids is negligible for large domains, it is significant for smaller ones. Together, these results reveal characteristic traits of bilayer thermodynamic behavior in four-component mixtures, and provide a baseline for investigation of the effects of proteins and other lipids on membrane phase properties.
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- David G Ackerman
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, United States
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Okada F, Morigaki K. Micropatterned model membrane with quantitatively controlled separation of lipid phases. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra09981h] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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A patterned model membrane of lipid rafts was generated by quantitatively controlling the separation of liquid-ordered and liquid-disordered bilayer domains.
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- Fumiko Okada
- Graduate School of Agricultural Science
- Kobe University
- Kobe 657-8501
- Japan
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- Graduate School of Agricultural Science
- Kobe University
- Kobe 657-8501
- Japan
- Research Center for Environmental Genomics
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Baoukina S, Tieleman DP. Computer simulations of phase separation in lipid bilayers and monolayers. Methods Mol Biol 2015; 1232:307-322. [PMID: 25331143 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-1752-5_21] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Studying phase coexistence in lipid bilayers and monolayers is important for understanding lipid-lipid interactions underlying lateral organization in biological membranes. Computer simulations follow experimental approaches and use model lipid mixtures of simplified composition. Atomistic simulations give detailed information on the specificity of intermolecular interactions, while coarse-grained simulations achieve large time and length scales and provide a bridge towards state-of-the-art experimental techniques. Computer simulations allow characterizing the structure and composition of domains during phase transformations at Angstrom and picosecond resolution, and bring new insights into phase behavior of lipid membranes.
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- Svetlana Baoukina
- Department of Biological Sciences, Centre for Molecular Simulation, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 1N4,
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A coarse-grained molecular dynamics investigation of the phase behavior of DPPC/cholesterol mixtures. Chem Phys Lipids 2015; 185:88-98. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2014.07.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/21/2014] [Revised: 07/28/2014] [Accepted: 07/30/2014] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Ge Y, Siegel AP, Jordan R, Naumann CA. Ligand binding alters dimerization and sequestering of urokinase receptors in raft-mimicking lipid mixtures. Biophys J 2014; 107:2101-11. [PMID: 25418095 PMCID: PMC4223190 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.09.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2014] [Revised: 09/05/2014] [Accepted: 09/19/2014] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Lipid heterogeneities, such as lipid rafts, are widely considered to be important for the sequestering of membrane proteins in plasma membranes, thereby influencing membrane protein functionality. However, the underlying mechanisms of such sequestration processes remain elusive, in part, due to the small size and often transient nature of these functional membrane heterogeneities in cellular membranes. To overcome these challenges, here we report the sequestration behavior of urokinase receptor (uPAR), a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored protein, in a planar model membrane platform with raft-mimicking lipid mixtures of well-defined compositions using a powerful optical imaging platform consisting of confocal spectroscopy XY-scans, photon counting histogram, and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy analyses. This methodology provides parallel information about receptor sequestration, oligomerization state, and lateral mobility with single molecule sensitivity. Most notably, our experiments demonstrate that moderate changes in uPAR sequestration are not only associated with modifications in uPAR dimerization levels, but may also be linked to ligand-mediated allosteric changes of these membrane receptors. Our data show that these modifications in uPAR sequestration can be induced by exposure to specific ligands (urokinase plasminogen activator, vitronectin), but not via adjustment of the cholesterol level in the planar model membrane system. Good agreement of our key findings with published results on cell membranes confirms the validity of our model membrane approach. We hypothesize that the observed mechanism of receptor translocation in the presence of raft-mimicking lipid mixtures is also applicable to other glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins.
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- Yifan Ge
- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana; Integrated Nanosystems Development Institute, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana
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- Makromolekulare Chemie, TU Dresden, Dresden, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana; Integrated Nanosystems Development Institute, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Disalvo EA, Martini MF, Bouchet AM, Hollmann A, Frías MA. Structural and thermodynamic properties of water-membrane interphases: significance for peptide/membrane interactions. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2014; 211:17-33. [PMID: 25085854 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2014.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/06/2013] [Revised: 05/16/2014] [Accepted: 05/16/2014] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Water appears as a common intermediary in the mechanisms of interaction of proteins and polypeptides with membranes of different lipid composition. In this review, how water modulates the interaction of peptides and proteins with lipid membranes is discussed by correlating the thermodynamic response and the structural changes of water at the membrane interphases. The thermodynamic properties of the lipid-protein interaction are governed by changes in the water activity of monolayers of different lipid composition according to the lateral surface pressure. In this context, different water populations can be characterized below and above the phase transition temperature in relation to the CH₂ conformers' states in the acyl chains. According to water species present at the interphase, lipid membrane acts as a water state regulator, which determines the interfacial water domains in the surface. It is proposed that those domains are formed by the contact between lipids themselves and between lipids and the water phase, which are needed to trigger adsorption-insertion processes. The water domains are essential to maintain functional dynamical properties and are formed by water beyond the hydration shell of the lipid head groups. These confined water domains probably carries information in local units in relation to the lipid composition thus accounting for the link between lipidomics and aquaomics. The analysis of these results contributes to a new insight of the lipid bilayer as a non-autonomous, responsive (reactive) structure that correlates with the dynamical properties of a living system.
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- E A Disalvo
- Centro de Investigaciones y Transferencia Santiago del Estero (CITSE), (CONICET-UNSE), Laboratorio de Biointerfases y Sistemas Biomiméticos, Laboratorios Centrales - Ala Norte, Ruta Nacional 9, Km 1125 - Villa El Zanjón, CP 4206 Santiago del Estero, Argentina.
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina and CONICET
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- Centro de Investigaciones y Transferencia Santiago del Estero (CITSE), (CONICET-UNSE), Laboratorio de Biointerfases y Sistemas Biomiméticos, Laboratorios Centrales - Ala Norte, Ruta Nacional 9, Km 1125 - Villa El Zanjón, CP 4206 Santiago del Estero, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigaciones y Transferencia Santiago del Estero (CITSE), (CONICET-UNSE), Laboratorio de Biointerfases y Sistemas Biomiméticos, Laboratorios Centrales - Ala Norte, Ruta Nacional 9, Km 1125 - Villa El Zanjón, CP 4206 Santiago del Estero, Argentina
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- Centro de Investigaciones y Transferencia Santiago del Estero (CITSE), (CONICET-UNSE), Laboratorio de Biointerfases y Sistemas Biomiméticos, Laboratorios Centrales - Ala Norte, Ruta Nacional 9, Km 1125 - Villa El Zanjón, CP 4206 Santiago del Estero, Argentina
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Liang Q, Wu QY, Wang ZY. Effect of hydrophobic mismatch on domain formation and peptide sorting in the multicomponent lipid bilayers in the presence of immobilized peptides. J Chem Phys 2014; 141:074702. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4891931] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- Qing Liang
- Center for Statistical and Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and Department of Physics, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, People's Republic of China
- Department of Physics, Ningbo University, Ningbo 315211, People's Republic of China
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- Center for Statistical and Theoretical Condensed Matter Physics and Department of Physics, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, People's Republic of China
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- School of Optoelectronic Information, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing 400054, People's Republic of China
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Pan J, Marquardt D, Heberle FA, Kučerka N, Katsaras J. Revisiting the bilayer structures of fluid phase phosphatidylglycerol lipids: Accounting for exchangeable hydrogens. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2014; 1838:2966-9. [PMID: 25135659 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2014.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2014] [Revised: 08/06/2014] [Accepted: 08/08/2014] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We recently published two papers detailing the structures of fluid phase phosphatidylglycerol (PG) lipid bilayers (Kučerka et al., 2012 J. Phys. Chem. B 116: 232-239; Pan et al., 2012 Biochim. Biophys. Acta Biomembr. 1818: 2135-2148), which were determined using the scattering density profile model. This hybrid experimental/computational technique utilizes molecular dynamics simulations to parse a lipid bilayer into components whose volume probabilities follow simple analytical functional forms. Given the appropriate scattering densities, these volume probabilities are then translated into neutron scattering length density (NSLD) and electron density (ED) profiles, which are used to jointly refine experimentally obtained small angle neutron and X-ray scattering data. However, accurate NSLD and ED profiles can only be obtained if the bilayer's chemical composition is known. Specifically, in the case of neutron scattering, the lipid's exchangeable hydrogens with aqueous D2O must be accounted for, as they can have a measureable effect on the resultant lipid bilayer structures. This was not done in our above-mentioned papers. Here we report on the molecular structures of PG lipid bilayers by appropriately taking into account the exchangeable hydrogens. Analysis indicates that the temperature-averaged PG lipid areas decrease by 1.5 to 3.8Å(2), depending on the lipid's acyl chain length and unsaturation, compared to PG areas when hydrogen exchange was not taken into account.
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- Jianjun Pan
- Department of Physics, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33620, USA.
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- Department of Physics, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada
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- Neutron Sciences Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA
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- Department of Physical Chemistry of Drugs, Comenius University, 832 32 Bratislava, Slovakia; Frank Laboratory of Neutron Physics, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980 Dubna, Russia
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- Department of Physics, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada; Neutron Sciences Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA; Joint Institute for Neutron Scattering, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
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Puff N, Watanabe C, Seigneuret M, Angelova MI, Staneva G. Lo/Ld phase coexistence modulation induced by GM1. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2014; 1838:2105-14. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2014.05.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/29/2013] [Revised: 04/30/2014] [Accepted: 05/03/2014] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Mouret L, Da Costa G, Bondon A. Sterols associated with small unilamellar vesicles (SUVs): intrinsic mobility role for 1H NMR detection. MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN CHEMISTRY : MRC 2014; 52:339-344. [PMID: 24691941 DOI: 10.1002/mrc.4069] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2013] [Revised: 02/27/2014] [Accepted: 03/11/2014] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Small unilamellar vesicles (SUVs) of phospholipids are often used as a membrane model system for studying the interaction of molecules. When using NMR under the standard liquid-state conditions, SUV phospholipid proton spectra can be recorded, exhibiting sharp signals. This is not only because of the fast vesicular tumbling but also because of the combination of this tumbling with the individual motion of the lipids inside the bilayer. This appears evident because addition of cholesterol is responsible of broader resonances because of the slowing down of the lipid motion. On the other hand, no (1)H signal is detected for cholesterol in the bilayer. This lack of detection of the inserted molecules explains why generally SUVs are not considered as a good model for NMR studies under the standard liquid-state conditions. Here, we use two other sterols in order to demonstrate that an increase of the molecular mobility inside the bilayer could allow the detection of their proton resonances. For desmosterol and lanosterol, which show higher mobility inside the bilayer, with increasing lateral diffusion rates, (1)H sterol signals are detected in contrast to cholesterol. For the fast diffusing lanosterol, no significant improvement in detection is observed using deuterated lipids, demonstrating that homonuclear dipolar coupling is fully averaged out. Furthermore, in the case of low mobility such as for cholesterol, the use of a fast magic angle spinning probe is shown to be efficient to recover the full proton spectrum.
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- Liza Mouret
- Université de Rennes 1, UMR CNRS 6226, ICMV, PRISM Biosit, Campus de Villejean, 35043, Rennes Cedex, France
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Visco I, Chiantia S, Schwille P. Asymmetric supported lipid bilayer formation via methyl-β-cyclodextrin mediated lipid exchange: influence of asymmetry on lipid dynamics and phase behavior. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2014; 30:7475-84. [PMID: 24885372 DOI: 10.1021/la500468r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) are broadly used as minimal membrane models and commonly produced by vesicle fusion (VF) on solid supports. Despite its advantages, VF does not allow the controlled formation of bilayers that mimic the leaflet asymmetry in lipid composition normally found in biological systems. Here we present a simple, quick, and versatile method to produce SLBs with a desired asymmetric lipid composition which is stable for ca. 4 h. We apply methyl-β-cyclodextrin mediated lipid exchange to SLBs formed by VF to enrich the upper leaflet of the bilayer with sphingomyelin. The bilayer asymmetry is assessed by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, measuring the lipid mobility separately in each leaflet. To check the compatibility of the method with the most common protein reconstitution approaches, we report the production of asymmetric SLBs (aSLBs) in the presence of a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored protein, reconstituted in the bilayer both, via direct protein insertion, and via proteoliposomes fusion. We finally apply aSLBs to study phase separation and transbilayer lipid movement of raft-mimicking lipid mixtures. The observed differences in terms of phase separation in symmetric and asymmetric SLBs with the same overall lipid composition provide further experimental evidence that the transversal lipid distribution affects the overall lipid miscibility and allow to temporally investigate leaflet mixing.
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- Ilaria Visco
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry , Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Martinsried, Germany
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Dimova R. Recent developments in the field of bending rigidity measurements on membranes. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2014; 208:225-34. [PMID: 24666592 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2014.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 307] [Impact Index Per Article: 30.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2013] [Revised: 02/28/2014] [Accepted: 03/02/2014] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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This review gives a brief overview of experimental approaches used to assess the bending rigidity of membranes. Emphasis is placed on techniques based on the use of giant unilamellar vesicles. We summarize the effect on the bending rigidity of membranes as a function of membrane composition, presence of various inclusions in the bilayer and molecules and ions in the bathing solutions. Examples for the impact of temperature, cholesterol, some peptides and proteins, sugars and salts are provided and the literature data are discussed critically. Future directions, open questions and possible developments in this research field are also included.
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- Rumiana Dimova
- Department of Theory and Bio-Systems, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Science Park Golm, 14424 Potsdam, Germany.
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Application of nucleic acid-lipid conjugates for the programmable organisation of liposomal modules. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2014; 207:290-305. [PMID: 24461711 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2013.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/11/2013] [Revised: 11/29/2013] [Accepted: 12/19/2013] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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We present a critical review of recent work related to the assembly of multicompartment liposome clusters using nucleic acids as a specific recognition unit to link liposomal modules. The asymmetry in nucleic acid binding to its non-self complementary strand allows the controlled association of different compartmental modules into composite systems. These biomimetic multicompartment architectures could have future applications in chemical process control, drug delivery and synthetic biology. We assess the different methods of anchoring DNA to lipid membrane surfaces and discuss how lipid and DNA properties can be tuned to control the morphology and properties of liposome superstructures. We consider different methods for chemical communication between the contents of liposomal compartments within these clusters and assess the progress towards making this chemical mixing efficient, switchable and chemically specific. Finally, given the current state of the art, we assess the outlook for future developments towards functional modular networks of liposomes.
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Funkhouser CM, Solis FJ, Thornton K. Dynamics of coarsening in multicomponent lipid vesicles with non-uniform mechanical properties. J Chem Phys 2014; 140:144908. [DOI: 10.1063/1.4870478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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Zheng H, Jiménez-Flores R, Gragson D, Everett DW. Phospholipid Architecture of the Bovine Milk Fat Globule Membrane Using Giant Unilamellar Vesicles as a Model. JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY 2014; 62:3236-3243. [PMID: 24641452 DOI: 10.1021/jf500093p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) were constructed using an electroformation technique to mimic the morphology of the native milk fat globule membrane (MFGM) for the purpose of structural investigation. Bovine milk derived phospholipids were selected to manufacture GUVs which were characterized by confocal laser scanning microscopy after fluorescent staining. Circular nonfluorescent dark regions were observed in a 3/7 (mol/mol) surface mixture of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) and 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3 phosphoethanolamine. Linear shaped dark lipid domains were found in GUVs containing sphingomyelin (SM) in the absence of cholesterol. The dark regions were interpreted as a gel phase formed by a high gel-liquid phase transition temperature (Tm) of DPPC and SM. This study provides a strategy for investigating the lipid structural organization within the native MFGM using a model lipid bilayer system and reveals that a SM and cholesterol association network is not the only requirement for nonfluorescent lipid domain formation and that PE is preferably located in the inner leaflet of the phospholipid bilayer.
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- Haotian Zheng
- Riddet Institute , Palmerston North, 4442 Manawatu, New Zealand
- Department of Food Science, University of Otago , Dunedin, 9054 Otago, New Zealand
- Dairy Products Technology Center, California Polytechnic State University , San Luis Obispo, 93407 California, United States
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- Dairy Products Technology Center, California Polytechnic State University , San Luis Obispo, 93407 California, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Polytechnic State University , San Luis Obispo, 93407 California, United States
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- Riddet Institute , Palmerston North, 4442 Manawatu, New Zealand
- Department of Food Science, University of Otago , Dunedin, 9054 Otago, New Zealand
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Kraft ML, Klitzing HA. Imaging lipids with secondary ion mass spectrometry. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2014; 1841:1108-19. [PMID: 24657337 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2014.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 85] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2013] [Revised: 03/11/2014] [Accepted: 03/12/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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This review discusses the application of time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) and magnetic sector SIMS with high lateral resolution performed on a Cameca NanoSIMS 50(L) to imaging lipids. The similarities between the two SIMS approaches and the differences that impart them with complementary strengths are described, and various strategies for sample preparation and to optimize the quality of the SIMS data are presented. Recent reports that demonstrate the new insight into lipid biochemistry that can be acquired with SIMS are also highlighted. This article is part of a Special Issue entitled Tools to study lipid functions.
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- Mary L Kraft
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA; Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
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Bagatolli LA, Needham D. Quantitative optical microscopy and micromanipulation studies on the lipid bilayer membranes of giant unilamellar vesicles. Chem Phys Lipids 2014; 181:99-120. [PMID: 24632023 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2014.02.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2014] [Revised: 02/25/2014] [Accepted: 02/26/2014] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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This manuscript discusses basic methodological aspects of optical microscopy and micromanipulation methods to study membranes and reviews methods to generate giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). In particular, we focus on the use of fluorescence microscopy and micropipet manipulation techniques to study composition-structure-property materials relationships of free-standing lipid bilayer membranes. Because their size (∼5-100 μm diameter) that is well above the resolution limit of regular light microscopes, GUVs are suitable membrane models for optical microscopy and micromanipulation experimentation. For instance, using different fluorescent reporters, fluorescence microscopy allows strategies to study membrane lateral structure/dynamics at the level of single vesicles of diverse compositions. The micropipet manipulation technique on the other hand, uses Hoffman modulation contrast microscopy and allows studies on the mechanical, thermal, molecular exchange and adhesive-interactive properties of compositionally different membranes under controlled environmental conditions. The goal of this review is to (i) provide a historical perspective for both techniques; (ii) present and discuss some of their most important contributions to our understanding of lipid bilayer membranes; and (iii) outline studies that would utilize both techniques simultaneously on the same vesicle thus bringing the ability to characterize structure and strain responses together with the direct application of well-defined stresses to a single membrane or observe the effects of adhesive spreading. Knowledge gained by these studies has informed several applications of lipid membranes including their use as lung surfactants and drug delivery systems for cancer.
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- Luis A Bagatolli
- Membrane Biophysics and Biophotonics Group/MEMPHYS - Center for Biomembrane Physics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
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- DNRF Niels Bohr Professorship, Center for Single Particle Science and Engineering, Institute for Physics, Chemistry and Pharmacy, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; Department of Mechanical Engineering and Material Science, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
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Setiawan I, Blanchard GJ. Structural disruption of phospholipid bilayers over a range of length scales by n-butanol. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:3085-93. [PMID: 24571731 DOI: 10.1021/jp500454z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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We report on the exposure of planar multicomponent lipid bilayers supported on mica to n-butanol. The bilayer contains 49 mol % 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-phosphatidylcholine (DOPC), 10 mol % cholesterol, 40 mol % sphingomyelin, and 1 mol % sulforhodamine-tagged 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-phosphatidylethanolamine (SR-DOPE). Phase separation of the cholesterol domains is seen within the bilayer structure, and exposure of this supported bilayer to controlled amounts of n-butanol in the aqueous overlayer produces morphological changes over a range of length scales. We report steady state fluorescence imaging, fluorescence lifetime imaging, and fluorescence anisotropy decay imaging for these bilayers. These data are consistent with literature reports on the interactions of lipid bilayers with n-butanol and provide molecular-scale insight relative to bilayer organization that has not been available to date. The exposure of these bilayers to n-butanol leads to more extensive disruption of the bilayer than is seen for their exposure to ethanol.
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- Iwan Setiawan
- Department of Chemistry, Michigan State University , 578 South Shaw Lane, East Lansing, Michigan 48824-1322, United States
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Swiecicki JM, Bartsch A, Tailhades J, Di Pisa M, Heller B, Chassaing G, Mansuy C, Burlina F, Lavielle S. The Efficacies of Cell-Penetrating Peptides in Accumulating in Large Unilamellar Vesicles Depend on their Ability To Form Inverted Micelles. Chembiochem 2014; 15:884-91. [DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201300742] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/25/2013] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Hassan-Zadeh E, Baykal-Caglar E, Alwarawrah M, Huang J. Complex roles of hybrid lipids in the composition, order, and size of lipid membrane domains. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2014; 30:1361-1369. [PMID: 24456489 DOI: 10.1021/la4044733] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Hybrid lipids (HL) are phospholipids with one saturated chain and one unsaturated chain. HL are hypothesized to act as linactants (i.e., 2D surfactants) in cell membranes, reducing line tension and creating nanoscopic lipid domains. Here we compare three hybrid lipids of different chain unsaturation (16:0-18:1PC (POPC), 16:0-18:2PC (PLPC), and 16:0-20:4PC (PAPC)) in their abilities to alter the composition, line tension, order, and compactness of lipid domains. We found that the liquid-ordered (Lo) and liquid-disordered (Ld) lipid domains in PAPC/di18:0PC(DSPC)/cholesterol and PLPC/DSPC/cholesterol mixtures are micrometer-sized, and only the POPC/DSPC/cholesterol system has nanoscopic domains. The results indicate that some HLs with polyunsaturated chains are not linactants, and the monounsaturated POPC displays both properties of weak linactants and "Ld-phase" lipids such as di18:1PC (DOPC). The obtained phase boundaries from giant unilamellar vesicles (GUV) show that both POPC and PLPC partition well in the Lo phases. Our MD simulations reveal that these hybrid lipids decrease the order and compactness of Lo domains. Thus, hybrid lipids distinguish themselves from other lipid groups in this combined "partitioning and loosening" ability, which could explain why the Lo domains of GUVs, which often do not contain HL, are more compact than the raft domains in cell membranes. Our line tension measurement and Monte Carlo simulation both show that even the monounsaturated POPC is a weak linactant with only modest ability to occupy domain boundaries and reduce line tension. A more important property of HLs is that they can reduce physical property differences of Lo and Ld bulk domains, which also reduces line tension at domain boundaries.
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- Ebrahim Hassan-Zadeh
- Department of Physics, Texas Tech University , Lubbock, Texas 79409, United States
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Blosser MC, Starr JB, Turtle CW, Ashcraft J, Keller SL. Minimal effect of lipid charge on membrane miscibility phase behavior in three ternary systems. Biophys J 2014; 104:2629-38. [PMID: 23790371 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.04.055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2012] [Revised: 03/11/2013] [Accepted: 04/08/2013] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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Giant unilamellar vesicles composed of a ternary mixture of phospholipids and cholesterol exhibit coexisting liquid phases over a range of temperatures and compositions. A significant fraction of lipids in biological membranes are charged. Here, we present phase diagrams of vesicles composed of phosphatidylcholine (PC) lipids, which are zwitterionic; phosphatidylglycerol (PG) lipids, which are anionic; and cholesterol (Chol). Specifically, we use DiPhyPG-DPPC-Chol and DiPhyPC-DPPG-Chol. We show that miscibility in membranes containing charged PG lipids occurs over similarly high temperatures and broad lipid compositions as in corresponding membranes containing only uncharged lipids, and that the presence of salt has a minimal effect. We verified our results in two ways. First, we used mass spectrometry to ensure that charged PC/PG/Chol vesicles formed by gentle hydration have the same composition as the lipid stocks from which they are made. Second, we repeated the experiments by substituting phosphatidylserine for PG as the charged lipid and observed similar phenomena. Our results consistently support the view that monovalent charged lipids have only a minimal effect on lipid miscibility phase behavior in our system.
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- Matthew C Blosser
- Departments of Chemistry and Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Itri R, Junqueira HC, Mertins O, Baptista MS. Membrane changes under oxidative stress: the impact of oxidized lipids. Biophys Rev 2014; 6:47-61. [PMID: 28509959 DOI: 10.1007/s12551-013-0128-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 104] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2013] [Accepted: 12/03/2013] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Studying photosensitized oxidation of unsaturated phospholipids is of importance for understanding the basic processes underlying photodynamic therapy, photoaging and many other biological dysfunctions. In this review we show that the giant unilamellar vesicle, when used as a simplified model of biological membranes, is a powerful tool to investigate how in situ photogenerated oxidative species impact the phospholipid bilayer. The extent of membrane damage can be modulated by choosing a specific photosensitizer (PS) which is activated by light irradiation and can react by either type I and or type II mechanism. We will show that type II PS generates only singlet oxygen which reacts to the phospholipid acyl double bond. The byproduct thus formed is a lipid hydroperoxide which accumulates in the membrane as a function of singlet oxygen production and induces an increase in its area without significantly affecting membrane permeability. The presence of a lipid hydroperoxide can also play an important role in the formation of the lipid domain for mimetic plasma membranes. Lipid hydroperoxides can be also transformed in shortened chain compounds, such as aldehydes and carboxylic acids, in the presence of a PS that reacts via the type I mechanism. The presence of such byproducts may form hydrophilic pores in the membrane for moderate oxidative stress or promote membrane disruption for massive oxidation. Our results provide a new tool to explore membrane response to an oxidative stress and may have implications in biological signaling of redox misbalance.
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- Rosangela Itri
- Departamento de Física Aplicada, Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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- Departamento de Física Aplicada, Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Física Aplicada, Instituto de Física, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Química, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
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Morita M, Hamada T, Vestergaard MC, Takagi M. Endo- and exocytic budding transformation of slow-diffusing membrane domains induced by Alzheimer's amyloid beta. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2014; 16:8773-7. [DOI: 10.1039/c4cp00434e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Cell-sized liposomes are a powerful tool for clarifying physicochemical mechanisms that govern molecular interactions.
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- Masamune Morita
- School of Materials Science
- Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Nomi City, Japan
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- School of Materials Science
- Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Nomi City, Japan
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- School of Materials Science
- Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
- Nomi City, Japan
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Schütte OM, Ries A, Orth A, Patalag LJ, Römer W, Steinem C, Werz DB. Influence of Gb3 glycosphingolipids differing in their fatty acid chain on the phase behaviour of solid supported membranes: chemical syntheses and impact of Shiga toxin binding. Chem Sci 2014. [DOI: 10.1039/c4sc01290a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Weinrich M, Worcester DL. Xenon and other volatile anesthetics change domain structure in model lipid raft membranes. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:16141-7. [PMID: 24299622 DOI: 10.1021/jp411261g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Inhalation anesthetics have been in clinical use for over 160 years, but the molecular mechanisms of action continue to be investigated. Direct interactions with ion channels received much attention after it was found that anesthetics do not change the structure of homogeneous model membranes. However, it was recently found that halothane, a prototypical anesthetic, changes domain structure of a binary lipid membrane. The noble gas xenon is an excellent anesthetic and provides a pivotal test of the generality of this finding, extended to ternary lipid raft mixtures. We report that xenon and conventional anesthetics change the domain equilibrium in two canonical ternary lipid raft mixtures. These findings demonstrate a membrane-mediated mechanism whereby inhalation anesthetics can affect the lipid environment of transmembrane proteins.
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- Michael Weinrich
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development , Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States
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Heberle FA, Doktorova M, Goh SL, Standaert RF, Katsaras J, Feigenson GW. Hybrid and nonhybrid lipids exert common effects on membrane raft size and morphology. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:14932-5. [PMID: 24041024 DOI: 10.1021/ja407624c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Nanometer-scale domains in cholesterol-rich model membranes emulate lipid rafts in cell plasma membranes (PMs). The physicochemical mechanisms that maintain a finite, small domain size are, however, not well understood. A special role has been postulated for chain-asymmetric or hybrid lipids having a saturated sn-1 chain and an unsaturated sn-2 chain. Hybrid lipids generate nanodomains in some model membranes and are also abundant in the PM. It was proposed that they align in a preferred orientation at the boundary of ordered and disordered phases, lowering the interfacial energy and thus reducing domain size. We used small-angle neutron scattering and fluorescence techniques to detect nanoscopic and modulated liquid phase domains in a mixture composed entirely of nonhybrid lipids and cholesterol. Our results are indistinguishable from those obtained previously for mixtures containing hybrid lipids, conclusively showing that hybrid lipids are not required for the formation of nanoscopic liquid domains and strongly implying a common mechanism for the overall control of raft size and morphology. We discuss implications of these findings for theoretical descriptions of nanodomains.
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- Frederick A Heberle
- Biology and Soft Matter and §Biosciences Divisions, Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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Toward a better raft model: modulated phases in the four-component bilayer, DSPC/DOPC/POPC/CHOL. Biophys J 2013; 104:853-62. [PMID: 23442964 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2013.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2012] [Revised: 12/18/2012] [Accepted: 01/04/2013] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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The liquid-liquid (Ld + Lo) coexistence region within a distearoyl-phosphatidylcholine/dioleoyl-phosphatidylcholine/palmitoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine/cholesterol (DSPC/DOPC/POPC/CHOL) mixture displays a nanoscopic-to-macroscopic transition of phase domains as POPC is replaced by DOPC. Previously, we showed that the transition goes through a modulated phase regime during this replacement, in which patterned liquid phase morphologies are observed on giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). Here, we describe a more detailed investigation of the modulated phase regime along two different thermodynamic tielines within the Ld + Lo region of this four-component mixture. Using fluorescence microscopy of GUVs, we found that the modulated phase regime occurs at relatively narrow DOPC/(DOPC+POPC) ratios. This modulated phase window shifts to higher values of DOPC/(DOPC+POPC) when CHOL concentration is increased, and coexisting phases become closer in properties. Monte Carlo simulations reproduced the patterns observed on GUVs, using a competing interactions model of line tension and curvature energies. Sufficiently low line tension and high bending moduli are required to generate stable modulated phases. Altogether, our studies indicate that by tuning the lipid composition, both the domain size and morphology can be altered drastically within a narrow composition space. This lends insight into a possible mechanism whereby cells can reorganize plasma membrane compartmentalization simply by tuning the local membrane composition or line tension.
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Bennett WD, Tieleman DP. Computer simulations of lipid membrane domains. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2013; 1828:1765-76. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2013.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 123] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/20/2012] [Revised: 02/28/2013] [Accepted: 03/01/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Husen P, Arriaga LR, Monroy F, Ipsen JH, Bagatolli LA. Morphometric image analysis of giant vesicles: a new tool for quantitative thermodynamics studies of phase separation in lipid membranes. Biophys J 2013; 103:2304-10. [PMID: 23283229 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.10.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2012] [Revised: 10/19/2012] [Accepted: 10/26/2012] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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We have developed a strategy to determine lengths and orientations of tie lines in the coexistence region of liquid-ordered and liquid-disordered phases of cholesterol containing ternary lipid mixtures. The method combines confocal-fluorescence-microscopy image stacks of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs), a dedicated 3D-image analysis, and a quantitative analysis based in equilibrium thermodynamic considerations. This approach was tested in GUVs composed of 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine/1,2-palmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine/cholesterol. In general, our results show a reasonable agreement with previously reported data obtained by other methods. For example, our computed tie lines were found to be nonhorizontal, indicating a difference in cholesterol content in the coexisting phases. This new, to our knowledge, analytical strategy offers a way to further exploit fluorescence-microscopy experiments in GUVs, particularly retrieving quantitative data for the construction of three lipid-component-phase diagrams containing cholesterol.
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- Peter Husen
- MEMPHYS Center for Biomembrane Physics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
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Wriessnegger T, Pichler H. Yeast metabolic engineering – Targeting sterol metabolism and terpenoid formation. Prog Lipid Res 2013; 52:277-93. [DOI: 10.1016/j.plipres.2013.03.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/2012] [Revised: 03/26/2013] [Accepted: 03/27/2013] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Brandani GB, Schor M, MacPhee CE, Grubmüller H, Zachariae U, Marenduzzo D. Quantifying disorder through conditional entropy: an application to fluid mixing. PLoS One 2013; 8:e65617. [PMID: 23762401 PMCID: PMC3677935 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0065617] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2013] [Accepted: 04/25/2013] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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In this paper, we present a method to quantify the extent of disorder in a system by using conditional entropies. Our approach is especially useful when other global, or mean field, measures of disorder fail. The method is equally suited for both continuum and lattice models, and it can be made rigorous for the latter. We apply it to mixing and demixing in multicomponent fluid membranes, and show that it has advantages over previous measures based on Shannon entropies, such as a much diminished dependence on binning and the ability to capture local correlations. Further potential applications are very diverse, and could include the study of local and global order in fluid mixtures, liquid crystals, magnetic materials, and particularly biomolecular systems.
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- Giovanni B. Brandani
- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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- Department of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Division of Computational Biology, College of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
- Division of Physics, School of Engineering, Physics and Mathematics, University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (UZ); (DM)
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
- * E-mail: (UZ); (DM)
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Wydro P, Flasiński M, Broniatowski M. Grazing Incidence X-ray Diffraction and Brewster Angle Microscopy studies on domain formation in phosphatidylethanolamine/cholesterol monolayers imitating the inner layer of human erythrocyte membrane. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2013; 1828:1415-23. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2013.01.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2012] [Revised: 01/21/2013] [Accepted: 01/30/2013] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Wydro P, Flasiński M, Broniatowski M. Does cholesterol preferentially pack in lipid domains with saturated sphingomyelin over phosphatidylcholine? A comprehensive monolayer study combined with grazing incidence X-ray diffraction and Brewster angle microscopy experiments. J Colloid Interface Sci 2013; 397:122-30. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2013.01.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/28/2012] [Revised: 01/03/2013] [Accepted: 01/20/2013] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Lozano MM, Liu Z, Sunnick E, Janshoff A, Kumar K, Boxer SG. Colocalization of the ganglioside G(M1) and cholesterol detected by secondary ion mass spectrometry. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:5620-30. [PMID: 23514537 PMCID: PMC3639293 DOI: 10.1021/ja310831m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The characterization of the lateral organization of components in biological membranes and the evolution of this arrangement in response to external triggers remain a major challenge. The concept of lipid rafts is widely invoked; however, direct evidence of the existence of these ephemeral entities remains elusive. We report here the use of secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) to image the cholesterol-dependent cohesive phase separation of the ganglioside GM1 into nano- and microscale assemblies in a canonical lipid raft composition of lipids. This assembly of domains was interrogated in a model membrane system composed of palmitoyl sphingomyelin (PSM), cholesterol, and an unsaturated lipid (dioleoylphosphatidylcholine, DOPC). Orthogonal isotopic labeling of every lipid bilayer component and monofluorination of GM1 allowed generation of molecule specific images using a NanoSIMS. Simultaneous detection of six different ion species in SIMS, including secondary electrons, was used to generate ion ratio images whose signal intensity values could be correlated to composition through the use of calibration curves from standard samples. Images of this system provide the first direct, molecule specific, visual evidence for the colocalization of cholesterol and GM1 in supported lipid bilayers and further indicate the presence of three compositionally distinct phases: (1) the interdomain region; (2) micrometer-scale domains (d > 3 μm); (3) nanometer-scale domains (d = 100 nm to 1 μm) localized within the micrometer-scale domains and the interdomain region. PSM-rich, nanometer-scale domains prefer to partition within the more ordered, cholesterol-rich/DOPC-poor/GM1-rich micrometer-scale phase, while GM1-rich, nanometer-scale domains prefer to partition within the surrounding, disordered, cholesterol-poor/PSM-rich/DOPC-rich interdomain phase.
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- Mónica M. Lozano
- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5080
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- Department of Chemistry, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155-5813
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Göttingen, Tammannstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts 02155-5813
- Cancer Center, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02110
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- Department of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5080
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Pan J, Heberle FA, Petruzielo RS, Katsaras J. Using small-angle neutron scattering to detect nanoscopic lipid domains. Chem Phys Lipids 2013; 170-171:19-32. [PMID: 23518250 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2013.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2013] [Revised: 02/27/2013] [Accepted: 02/28/2013] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The cell plasma membrane is a complex system, which is thought to be capable of exhibiting non-random lateral organization. Studies of live cells and model membranes have yielded mechanisms responsible for the formation, growth, and maintenance of nanoscopic heterogeneities, although the existence and mechanisms that give rise to these heterogeneities remain controversial. Small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) is a tool ideally suited to interrogate lateral heterogeneity in model membranes, primarily due to its unique spatial resolution (i.e., ~5-100nm) and its ability to resolve structure with minimal perturbation to the membrane. In this review we examine several methods used to analyze the SANS signal arising from freely suspended unilamellar vesicles containing lateral heterogeneity. Specifically, we discuss an analytical model for a single, round domain on a spherical vesicle. We then discuss a numerical method that uses Monte Carlo simulation to describe systems with multiple domains and/or more complicated morphologies. Also discussed are several model-independent approaches that are sensitive to membrane heterogeneity. The review concludes with several recent applications of SANS to the study of membrane raft mixtures.
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- Jianjun Pan
- Biology and Soft Matter Division, Neutron Sciences Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, United States.
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Monolayer curvature stabilizes nanoscale raft domains in mixed lipid bilayers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013; 110:4476-81. [PMID: 23487780 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1221075110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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According to the lipid raft hypothesis, biological lipid membranes are laterally heterogeneous and filled with nanoscale ordered "raft" domains, which are believed to play an important role for the organization of proteins in membranes. However, the mechanisms stabilizing such small rafts are not clear, and even their existence is sometimes questioned. Here, we report the observation of raft-like structures in a coarse-grained molecular model for multicomponent lipid bilayers. On small scales, our membranes demix into a liquid ordered (lo) phase and a liquid disordered (ld) phase. On large scales, phase separation is suppressed and gives way to a microemulsion-type state that contains nanometer-sized lo domains in an ld environment. Furthermore, we introduce a mechanism that generates rafts of finite size by a coupling between monolayer curvature and local composition. We show that mismatch between the spontaneous curvatures of monolayers in the lo and ld phases induces elastic interactions, which reduce the line tension between the lo and ld phases and can stabilize raft domains with a characteristic size of the order of a few nanometers. Our findings suggest that rafts in multicomponent bilayers might be closely related to the modulated ripple phase in one-component bilayers.
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Heberle FA, Petruzielo RS, Pan J, Drazba P, Kučerka N, Standaert RF, Feigenson GW, Katsaras J. Bilayer thickness mismatch controls domain size in model membranes. J Am Chem Soc 2013; 135:6853-9. [PMID: 23391155 DOI: 10.1021/ja3113615] [Citation(s) in RCA: 224] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The observation of lateral phase separation in lipid bilayers has received considerable attention, especially in connection to lipid raft phenomena in cells. It is widely accepted that rafts play a central role in cellular processes, notably signal transduction. While micrometer-sized domains are observed with some model membrane mixtures, rafts much smaller than 100 nm-beyond the reach of optical microscopy-are now thought to exist, both in vitro and in vivo. We have used small-angle neutron scattering, a probe free technique, to measure the size of nanoscopic membrane domains in unilamellar vesicles with unprecedented accuracy. These experiments were performed using a four-component model system containing fixed proportions of cholesterol and the saturated phospholipid 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DSPC), mixed with varying amounts of the unsaturated phospholipids 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) and 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC). We find that liquid domain size increases with the extent of acyl chain unsaturation (DOPC:POPC ratio). Furthermore, we find a direct correlation between domain size and the mismatch in bilayer thickness of the coexisting liquid-ordered and liquid-disordered phases, suggesting a dominant role for line tension in controlling domain size. While this result is expected from line tension theories, we provide the first experimental verification in free-floating bilayers. Importantly, we also find that changes in bilayer thickness, which accompany changes in the degree of lipid chain unsaturation, are entirely confined to the disordered phase. Together, these results suggest how the size of functional domains in homeothermic cells may be regulated through changes in lipid composition.
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- Frederick A Heberle
- Biology & Soft Matter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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