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Orlikowska-Rzeznik H, Versluis J, Bakker HJ, Piatkowski L. Cholesterol Changes Interfacial Water Alignment in Model Cell Membranes. J Am Chem Soc 2024; 146:13151-13162. [PMID: 38687869 PMCID: PMC11099968 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c00474] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2024] [Revised: 04/20/2024] [Accepted: 04/22/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
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The nanoscopic layer of water that directly hydrates biological membranes plays a critical role in maintaining the cell structure, regulating biochemical processes, and managing intermolecular interactions at the membrane interface. Therefore, comprehending the membrane structure, including its hydration, is essential for understanding the chemistry of life. While cholesterol is a fundamental lipid molecule in mammalian cells, influencing both the structure and dynamics of cell membranes, its impact on the structure of interfacial water has remained unknown. We used surface-specific vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy to study the effect of cholesterol on the structure and hydration of monolayers of the lipids 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC), 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC), and egg sphingomyelin (SM). We found that for the unsaturated lipid DOPC, cholesterol intercalates in the membrane without significantly changing the orientation of the lipid tails and the orientation of the water molecules hydrating the headgroups of DOPC. In contrast, for the saturated lipids DPPC and SM, the addition of cholesterol leads to clearly enhanced packing and ordering of the hydrophobic tails. It is also observed that the orientation of the water hydrating the lipid headgroups is enhanced upon the addition of cholesterol. These results are important because the orientation of interfacial water molecules influences the cell membranes' dipole potential and the strength and specificity of interactions between cell membranes and peripheral proteins and other biomolecules. The lipid nature-dependent role of cholesterol in altering the arrangement of interfacial water molecules offers a fresh perspective on domain-selective cellular processes, such as protein binding.
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- Hanna Orlikowska-Rzeznik
- Faculty
of Materials Engineering and Technical Physics, Poznan University of Technology, 60-965 Poznan, Poland
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- AMOLF,
Ultrafast Spectroscopy, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- AMOLF,
Ultrafast Spectroscopy, 1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Faculty
of Materials Engineering and Technical Physics, Poznan University of Technology, 60-965 Poznan, Poland
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Efimova SS, Ostroumova OS. Modulation of the Dipole Potential of Model Lipid Membranes with Phytochemicals: Molecular Mechanisms, Structure-Activity Relationships, and Implications in Reconstituted Ion Channels. MEMBRANES 2023; 13:453. [PMID: 37103880 PMCID: PMC10141572 DOI: 10.3390/membranes13040453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2023] [Revised: 04/17/2023] [Accepted: 04/18/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Phytochemicals, such as flavonoids, stilbenoids, alkaloids, terpenoids, and related compounds, have a wide range of useful pharmacological properties which cannot be ascribed to binding to a single peptide or protein target alone. Due to the relatively high lipophilicity of phytochemicals, the lipid membrane is thought to mediate their effects via changes in the properties of the lipid matrix, in particular, by modulating the transmembrane distribution of the electrical potential and, consequently, the formation and functioning of the ion channels reconstituted in the lipid bilayers. Therefore, biophysical studies on the interactions between plant metabolites and model lipid membranes are still of interest. This review represents an attempt to provide a critical analysis of a variety of studies on altering membranes and ion channels with phytochemicals via disturbing the potential drop at the membrane-aqueous solution interface. Critical structural motifs and functioning groups in the molecules of plant polyphenols (alkaloids and saponins are identified) and the possible mechanisms of dipole potential modulation with phytochemicals are discussed.
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Chernyshova DN, Tyulin AA, Ostroumova OS, Efimova SS. Discovery of the Potentiator of the Pore-Forming Ability of Lantibiotic Nisin: Perspectives for Anticancer Therapy. MEMBRANES 2022; 12:membranes12111166. [PMID: 36422158 PMCID: PMC9694817 DOI: 10.3390/membranes12111166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2022] [Revised: 11/15/2022] [Accepted: 11/17/2022] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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This study was focused on the action of lantibiotic nisin on the phospholipid membranes. Nisin did not produce ion-permeable pores in the membranes composed of DOPC or DOPE. The introduction of DOPS into bilayer lipid composition led to a decrease in the threshold detergent concentration of nisin. An addition of nisin to DOPG- and TOCL-enriched bilayers caused the formation of well-defined ion pores of various conductances. The transmembrane macroscopic current increased with the second power of the lantibiotic aqueous concentration, suggesting that the dimer of nisin was at least involved in the formation of conductive subunit. The pore-forming ability of lantibiotic decreased in the series: DOPC/TOCL ≈ DOPE/TOCL >> DOPC/DOPG ≥ DOPE/DOPG. The preferential interaction of nisin to cardiolipin-enriched bilayers might explain its antitumor activity by pore-formation in mitochondrial membranes. Small natural molecules, phloretin and capsaicin, were found to potentiate the membrane activity of nisin in the TOCL-containing membranes. The effect was referred to as changes in the membrane boundary potential at the adsorption of small molecules. We concluded that the compounds diminishing the membrane boundary potential should be considered as the potentiator of the nisin pore-forming ability that can be used to develop innovative formulations for anticancer therapy.
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Lipid Microenvironment Modulates the Pore-Forming Ability of Polymyxin B. Antibiotics (Basel) 2022; 11:antibiotics11101445. [PMID: 36290103 PMCID: PMC9598075 DOI: 10.3390/antibiotics11101445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2022] [Revised: 10/18/2022] [Accepted: 10/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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The ability of polymyxin B, an antibiotic used to treat infections caused by multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria as a last-line therapeutic option, to form ion pores in model membranes composed of various phospholipids and lipopolysaccharides was studied. Our data demonstrate that polymyxin B predominantly interacts with negatively charged lipids. Susceptibility decreases as follows: Kdo2-Lipid A >> DOPG ≈ DOPS >> DPhPG ≈ TOCL ≈ Lipid A. The dimer and hexamer of polymyxin B are involved in the pore formation in DOPG(DOPS)- and Kdo2-Lipid A-enriched bilayers, respectively. The pore-forming ability of polymyxin B significantly depends on the shape of membrane lipids, which indicates that the antibiotic produces toroidal lipopeptide-lipid pores. Small amphiphilic molecules diminishing the membrane dipole potential and inducing positive curvature stress were shown to be agonists of pore formation by polymyxin B and might be used to develop innovative lipopeptide-based formulations.
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Sarkar P, Chattopadhyay A. Membrane Dipole Potential: An Emerging Approach to Explore Membrane Organization and Function. J Phys Chem B 2022; 126:4415-4430. [PMID: 35696090 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.2c02476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Biological membranes are complex organized molecular assemblies of lipids and proteins that provide cells and membrane-bound intracellular organelles their individual identities by morphological compartmentalization. Membrane dipole potential originates from the electrostatic potential difference within the membrane due to the nonrandom arrangement (orientation) of amphiphile and solvent (water) dipoles at the membrane interface. In this Feature Article, we will focus on the measurement of dipole potential using electrochromic fluorescent probes and highlight interesting applications. In addition, we will focus on ratiometric fluorescence microscopic imaging technique to measure dipole potential in cellular membranes, a technique that can be used to address novel problems in cell biology which are otherwise difficult to address using available approaches. We envision that membrane dipole potential could turn out to be a convenient tool in exploring the complex interplay between membrane lipids and proteins and could provide novel insights in membrane organization and function.
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- Parijat Sarkar
- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India
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Buta A, Nazaruk E, Dziubak D, Szewczyk A, Bilewicz R. Properties of electrode-supported lipid cubic mesophase films with embedded gramicidin A: structure and ion-transport studies. Bioelectrochemistry 2022; 144:108042. [PMID: 34942573 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioelechem.2021.108042] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/08/2021] [Revised: 12/08/2021] [Accepted: 12/10/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The lipid cubic phase (LCP) is a nanomaterial composed of water channels surrounded by lipid bilayers. LCPs are stable at room temperature and are biocompatible. These features make the lipid cubic phases similar to biological membranes, and hence, are favorable for embedding membrane proteins. We show that the monoolein cubic phase deposited on the electrode forms a 3D lipid bilayer film convenient for electrochemical investigations of membrane proteins. In this research, we studied the effect of embedding an ionophoric peptide, gramicidin A (gA), on the structure and properties of the LCP film. The phase identity and structural parameters of the gramicidin-doped phase were characterized by small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS). The potassium ion transport through the film were studied by electroanalytical methods: alternating current voltammetry (ACV), chronoamperometry (CA) and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS). Increased values for the current of the gramicidin-doped cubic phase compared to the empty cubic phase and changes of the EIS parameters confirmed that the peptide remained in the film in its active dimeric form. Our results show that the LCP can be considered a suitable 3D biomimetic film for the investigation of ion channels and other transporting membrane proteins, and for their application in electrochemical sensors.
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- Aleksandra Buta
- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland; Laboratory of Intracellular Ion Channels, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology Polish Academy of Sciences, Pasteura 3, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Biological and Chemical Research Centre, University of Warsaw, Żwirki i Wigury 101, 02-089 Warsaw, Poland
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- Laboratory of Intracellular Ion Channels, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology Polish Academy of Sciences, Pasteura 3, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 1, 02-093 Warsaw, Poland.
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Zakharova AA, Efimova SS, Ostroumova OS. Phosphodiesterase Type 5 Inhibitors Greatly Affect Physicochemical Properties of Model Lipid Membranes. MEMBRANES 2021; 11:membranes11110893. [PMID: 34832122 PMCID: PMC8622654 DOI: 10.3390/membranes11110893] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2021] [Revised: 11/17/2021] [Accepted: 11/17/2021] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Although phosphodiesterase type 5 inhibitors are widely used and well-studied drugs, the potential benefits of their application in the treatment of various diseases and new drug delivery systems, including liposome forms, are still being discussed. In this regard, the role of the lipid matrix of cell membranes in the pharmacological action of the inhibitors is of special interest. It was shown that sildenafil, vardenafil, and tadalafil caused a significant decrease in the boundary potential of model membranes composed of palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine or its mixture with cholesterol, by 70–80 mV. The reduction in the membrane dipole potential induced by inhibitors led to a 20–25% increase in the conductance of cation-selective pores formed by the antimicrobial peptide gramicidin A. The addition of sildenafil or vardenafil also led to a significant decrease in the temperature of the main phase transition of dipalmytoylphosphatidylcholine, by about 1.5 °C, while tadalafil did not change the melting temperature. Sildenafil, vardenafil, and tadalafil enhanced the pore-forming activity of the antifungal polyene antibiotic nystatin by 11, 13, and 2 times, respectively. This fact might indicate the induction of membrane curvature stress by the inhibitors. The data obtained might be of special interest for the development of lipid-mediated forms of drugs.
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Choi W, Ryu H, Fuwad A, Goh S, Zhou C, Shim J, Takagi M, Kwon S, Kim SM, Jeon TJ. Quantitative Analysis of the Membrane Affinity of Local Anesthetics Using a Model Cell Membrane. MEMBRANES 2021; 11:membranes11080579. [PMID: 34436342 PMCID: PMC8401255 DOI: 10.3390/membranes11080579] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2021] [Revised: 07/17/2021] [Accepted: 07/27/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
Abstract
Local anesthesia is a drug that penetrates the nerve cell membrane and binds to the voltage gate sodium channel, inhibiting the membrane potential and neurotransmission. It is mainly used in clinical uses to address the pain of surgical procedures in the local area. Local anesthetics (LAs), however, can be incorporated into the membrane, reducing the thermal stability of the membrane as well as altering membrane properties such as fluidity, permeability, and lipid packing order. The effects of LAs on the membrane are not yet fully understood, despite a number of previous studies. In particular, it is necessary to analyze which is the more dominant factor, the membrane affinity or the structural perturbation of the membrane. To analyze the effects of LAs on the cell membrane and compare the results with those from model membranes, morphological analysis and 50% inhibitory concentration (IC50) measurement of CCD-1064sk (fibroblast, human skin) membranes were carried out for lidocaine (LDC) and tetracaine (TTC), the most popular LAs in clinical use. Furthermore, the membrane affinity of the LAs was quantitatively analyzed using a colorimetric polydiacetylene assay, where the color shift represents their distribution in the membrane. Further, to confirm the membrane affinity and structural effects of the membranes, we performed an electrophysiological study using a model protein (gramicidin A, gA) and measured the channel lifetime of the model protein on the free-standing lipid bilayer according to the concentration of each LA. Our results show that when LAs interact with cell membranes, membrane affinity is a more dominant factor than steric or conformational effects of the membrane.
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- Wanjae Choi
- Department of Biological Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Korea; (W.C.); (H.R.); (S.G.); (C.Z.); (S.K.)
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Korea; (W.C.); (H.R.); (S.G.); (C.Z.); (S.K.)
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Korea;
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Korea; (W.C.); (H.R.); (S.G.); (C.Z.); (S.K.)
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Korea; (W.C.); (H.R.); (S.G.); (C.Z.); (S.K.)
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- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA;
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- School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi 923–1292, Ishikawa, Japan;
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Korea; (W.C.); (H.R.); (S.G.); (C.Z.); (S.K.)
- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Korea
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Korea;
- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Korea
- Correspondence: (S.M.K.); (T.-J.J.); Tel.: +82-32-860-7328 (S.M.K.); +82-32-860-7511 (T.-J.J.)
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- Department of Biological Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Korea; (W.C.); (H.R.); (S.G.); (C.Z.); (S.K.)
- Department of Biological Sciences and Bioengineering, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Korea
- Correspondence: (S.M.K.); (T.-J.J.); Tel.: +82-32-860-7328 (S.M.K.); +82-32-860-7511 (T.-J.J.)
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Rao BD, Shrivastava S, Pal S, Chattopadhyay A. Effect of Local Anesthetics on the Organization and Dynamics of Hippocampal Membranes: A Fluorescence Approach. J Phys Chem B 2018; 123:639-647. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.8b10232] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Bhagyashree D. Rao
- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India
- CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Ghaziabad 201 002, India
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- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India
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- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India
- CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Ghaziabad 201 002, India
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- CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad 500 007, India
- Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research, Ghaziabad 201 002, India
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Zakharova AA, Efimova SS, Schagina LV, Malev VV, Ostroumova OS. Blocking ion channels induced by antifungal lipopeptide syringomycin E with amide-linked local anesthetics. Sci Rep 2018; 8:11543. [PMID: 30069037 PMCID: PMC6070474 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-30077-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/22/2018] [Accepted: 07/24/2018] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
Abstract
The effects of the amide-linked (lidocaine (LDC), mepivacaine (MPV), prilocaine (PLC)) and ester-bound local anesthetics (benzocaine (BZC), procaine (PRC), and tetracaine (TTC)) on the pore-forming activity of the antifungal lipopeptide syringomycin E (SRE) in lipid bilayers were studied. Independently on electrolyte concentration in the membrane bathing solution the observed changes in conductance of SRE channels agreed with the altered membrane dipole potential under the action of ester-bound local anesthetics. Effects of aminoamides in diluted and concentrated solutions were completely different. At 0.1 M KCl (pH 7.4) the effects of amide-linked anesthetics were in accordance with changes in the membrane surface potential, while at 2 M KCl aminoamides blocked ion passage through the SRE channels, leading to sharp reductions in pore conductance at negative voltages and 100-fold decreases in the channel lifetimes. The effects were not practically influenced by the membrane lipid composition. The interaction cooperativity implied the existence of specific binding sites for amide-bound anesthetics in SRE channels.
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- Anastasiia A Zakharova
- Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Tikhoretsky prospect, St. Petersburg, 194064, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Tikhoretsky prospect, St. Petersburg, 194064, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Tikhoretsky prospect, St. Petersburg, 194064, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Tikhoretsky prospect, St. Petersburg, 194064, Russia.,Saint Petersburg State University, Institute of Chemistry, 26 Universitetskii prospect, St. Petersburg, Petergof, 198504, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 4 Tikhoretsky prospect, St. Petersburg, 194064, Russia.
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Efimova SS, Chulkov EG, Ostroumova OS. Lipid-mediated mode of action of local anesthetics on lipid pores induced by polyenes, peptides and lipopeptides. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2018. [PMID: 29525621 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2018.02.051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The effects of local anesthetics (LAs), namely, lidocaine (LDC), prilocaine (PLC), mepivacaine (MPV), bupivacaine (BPV), procaine (PC), and tetracaine (TTC), on the steady-state transmembrane conductance induced by the cis-side addition of the antifungal polyene macrolide antibiotic, nystatin (NYS), in planar lipid bilayers were studied. The addition of TTC to model membranes comprising DOPC and cholesterol (33 mol%) led to a nearly twenty-fold increase in the steady-state NYS-induced membrane conductance. BPV slightly enhanced the channel-forming activity of polyene. LDC, PLC, MPV, and PC did not affect the NYS-induced transmembrane current. We concluded that the effects of LAs on the channel-forming activity of NYS were in agreement with their effects on the elastic properties of model membranes. The ability of aminoamide LAs to promote calcein leakage from large unilamellar DOPC-vesicles was decreased in the following order: BPV >> LDC ≈ PLC ≈ MPV. LDC, PLC, and MPV produced a graded leakage of fluorescent marker from liposomes, up to 10-13%. A initial sharp jump in fluorescence after the introduction of BPV was attributed to the solubilization of liposomes and the formation of mixed DOPC:BPV-micelles. Differential scanning microcalorimetry (DSC) of large unilamellar DPPC-vesicles showed that the main transition temperature (Tm) is continuously decreased upon increasing concentrations of TTC. A sharp drop in the enthalpy of the transition at higher TTC concentrations indicated a formation of anesthetic/lipid mixed micelles. In contrast to TTC, PC slightly decreased Tm, broadened the DSC signal and did not provoke vesicle-to-micelle transition. Both the calcein leakage and DSC data together with the results of measurements of threshold voltages that are required to cause the lipid bilayer breakdown might indicate an alteration in the curvature lipid packing stress, induced by BPV and TTC. The data presented here lend support to a lipid-mediated mode of LAs action on NYS pores via an alteration in curvature stress near the trans-mouth. Similar results were obtained for several lipid pores, formed by polyene amphotericin B, lipopeptide syringomycin E, and the peptides magainin and melittin. This finding further developed the concept of non-specific regulation of lipid pores by LAs. In conclusion, the combination of nystatin with LAs could be a novel treatment for efficient therapy of superficial and mucosal candidiasis.
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- Svetlana S Efimova
- Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 194064, Russia.
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- Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 194064, Russia
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- Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg 194064, Russia
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Yamaguchi T, Shirai O, Kitazumi Y, Kano K. Inhibition of Ion Transport through Gramicidin A Channels by the Addition of Local Anesthetic Procaine. ELECTROANAL 2017. [DOI: 10.1002/elan.201700609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Takuya Yamaguchi
- Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture; Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku; Kyoto 606-8502 Japan
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- Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture; Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku; Kyoto 606-8502 Japan
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- Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture; Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku; Kyoto 606-8502 Japan
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- Division of Applied Life Sciences, Graduate School of Agriculture; Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku; Kyoto 606-8502 Japan
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Davis BM, Brenton J, Davis S, Shamsher E, Sisa C, Grgic L, Cordeiro MF. Assessing anesthetic activity through modulation of the membrane dipole potential. J Lipid Res 2017; 58:1962-1976. [PMID: 28818873 PMCID: PMC5625120 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.m073932] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2016] [Revised: 08/09/2017] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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There is great individual variation in response to general anesthetics (GAs) leading to difficulties in optimal dosing and sometimes even accidental awareness during general anesthesia (AAGA). AAGA is a rare, but potentially devastating, complication affecting between 0.1% and 2% of patients undergoing surgery. The development of novel personalized screening techniques to accurately predict a patient’s response to GAs and the risk of AAGA remains an unmet clinical need. In the present study, we demonstrate the principle of using a fluorescent reporter of the membrane dipole potential, di-8-ANEPPs, as a novel method to monitor anesthetic activity using a well-described inducer/noninducer pair. The membrane dipole potential has previously been suggested to contribute a novel mechanism of anesthetic action. We show that the fluorescence ratio of di-8-ANEPPs changed in response to physiological concentrations of the anesthetic, 1-chloro-1,2,2-trifluorocyclobutane (F3), but not the structurally similar noninducer, 1,2-dichlorohexafluorocyclobutane (F6), to artificial membranes and in vitro retinal cell systems. Modulation of the membrane dipole provides an explanation to overcome the limitations associated with the alternative membrane-mediated mechanisms of GA action. Furthermore, by combining this technique with noninvasive retinal imaging technologies, we propose that this technique could provide a novel and noninvasive technique to monitor GA susceptibility and identify patients at risk of AAGA.
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- University College London Institute of Ophthalmology, London EC1V 9EL, United Kingdom
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- University College London Institute of Ophthalmology, London EC1V 9EL, United Kingdom
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- University College London Institute of Ophthalmology, London EC1V 9EL, United Kingdom
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- University College London Institute of Ophthalmology, London EC1V 9EL, United Kingdom
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- University College London Institute of Ophthalmology, London EC1V 9EL, United Kingdom
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- University College London Institute of Ophthalmology, London EC1V 9EL, United Kingdom .,Western Eye Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare National Health Service Trust, and Imperial College Ophthalmic Research Group, Imperial College London, London NW1 5QH, United Kingdom
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