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Bar L, Cordoyiannis G, Neupane S, Goole J, Grosfils P, Losada-Pérez P. Asymmetric Lipid Transfer between Zwitterionic Vesicles by Nanoviscosity Measurements. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2021; 11:1087. [PMID: 33922325 PMCID: PMC8145678 DOI: 10.3390/nano11051087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2021] [Revised: 04/19/2021] [Accepted: 04/20/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The interest in nano-sized lipid vesicles in nano-biotechnology relies on their use as mimics for endosomes, exosomes, and nanocarriers for drug delivery. The interactions between nanoscale size lipid vesicles and cell membranes involve spontaneous interbilayer lipid transfer by several mechanisms, such as monomer transfer or hemifusion. Experimental approaches toward monitoring lipid transfer between nanoscale-sized vesicles typically consist of transfer assays by fluorescence microscopy requiring the use of labels or calorimetric measurements, which in turn require a large amount of sample. Here, the capability of a label-free surface-sensitive method, quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D), was used to monitor lipid transfer kinetics at minimal concentrations and to elucidate how lipid physicochemical properties influence the nature of the transfer mechanism and dictate its dynamics. By studying time-dependent phase transitions obtained from nanoviscosity measurements, the transfer rates (unidirectional or bidirectional) between two vesicle populations consisting of lipids with the same head group and differing alkyl chain length can be estimated. Lipid transfer is asymmetric and unidirectional from shorter-chain lipid donor vesicles to longer-chain lipid acceptor vesicles. The transfer is dramatically reduced when the vesicle populations are incubated at temperatures below the melting of one of the vesicle populations.
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- Laure Bar
- Experimental Soft Matter and Thermal Physics Group (EST), Department of Physics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium;
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- Condensed Matter Physics Department, Jožef Stefan Institute, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia;
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- Physical Chemistry of Surfaces Group, Institut de Recherche de Chimie Paris (IRCP), 75005 Paris, France;
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- Laboratory of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, Campus de la Plaine, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium;
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- Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, Department of Physics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium;
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- Experimental Soft Matter and Thermal Physics Group (EST), Department of Physics, Université Libre de Bruxelles, 1050 Brussels, Belgium;
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Münter R, Kristensen K, Pedersbæk D, Larsen JB, Simonsen JB, Andresen TL. Dissociation of fluorescently labeled lipids from liposomes in biological environments challenges the interpretation of uptake studies. NANOSCALE 2018; 10:22720-22724. [PMID: 30488936 DOI: 10.1039/c8nr07755j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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Within nanomedicine, liposomes are investigated for their ability to deliver drug cargoes specifically into subcellular compartments of target cells. Such studies are often based on flow cytometry or microscopy, where researchers rely on fluorescently labeled lipids (FLLs) incorporated into the liposomal membrane to determine the localization of the liposomes within cells. These studies assume that the FLLs stay embedded in the liposomal membrane throughout the duration of the experiment. Here, we used size exclusion chromatography (SEC) to investigate the validity of this assumption by quantitatively determining the propensity of various widely used FLLs to dissociate from liposomes during incubation in human plasma. For certain commonly used off-the-shelf FLLs, up to 75% of the dye dissociated from the liposomes, while others dissociated less than 10%. To investigate the implications of this finding, we measured the peripheral blood leukocyte uptake of liposomes formulated with different FLLs using flow cytometry, and observed a significant difference in uptake correlating with the FLL's dissociation tendencies. Consequently, the choice of FLL can dramatically influence the conclusions drawn from liposome uptake and localization studies due to uptake of dissociated FLLs. The varying dissociation propensities for the FLLs were not reflected when incubating in buffer, showing that non-biological environments are unsuitable to mimic liposomal stability in a drug delivery context. Overall, our findings suggest that it is crucial for researchers to evaluate the stability of their FLL-labeled liposomes in biological environments, and the simplicity of the SEC assay put forward here makes it very applicable for the purpose.
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- Rasmus Münter
- Department of Micro- and Nanotechnology (DTU Nanotech), Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark.
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Browning KL, Lind TK, Maric S, Barker RD, Cárdenas M, Malmsten M. Effect of bilayer charge on lipoprotein lipid exchange. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2018; 168:117-125. [PMID: 29422308 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2018.01.043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2017] [Revised: 12/22/2017] [Accepted: 01/20/2018] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Lipoproteins play a key role in the onset and development of atherosclerosis, the formation of lipid plaques at blood vessel walls. The plaque formation, as well as subsequent calcification, involves not only endothelial cells but also connective tissue, and is closely related to a wide range of cardiovascular syndromes, that together constitute the number one cause of death in the Western World. High (HDL) and low (LDL) density lipoproteins are of particular interest in relation to atherosclerosis, due to their protective and harmful effects, respectively. In an effort to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying this, and to identify factors determining lipid deposition and exchange at lipid membranes, we here employ neutron reflection (NR) and quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D) to study the effect of membrane charge on lipoprotein deposition and lipid exchange. Dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) bilayers containing varying amounts of negatively charged dimyristoylphosphatidylserine (DMPS) were used to vary membrane charge. It was found that the amount of hydrogenous material deposited from either HDL or LDL to the bilayer depends only weakly on membrane charge density. In contrast, increasing membrane charge resulted in an increase in the amount of lipids removed from the supported lipid bilayer, an effect particularly pronounced for LDL. The latter effects are in line with previously reported observations on atherosclerotic plaque prone regions of long-term hyperlipidaemia and type 2 diabetic patients, and may also provide some molecular clues into the relation between oxidative stress and atherosclerosis.
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- Kathryn Louise Browning
- Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biofilms - Research Centre for Biointerfaces, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biofilms - Research Centre for Biointerfaces, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden
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- Department of Biomedical Sciences and Biofilms - Research Centre for Biointerfaces, Malmö University, Malmö, Sweden.
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- Department of Pharmacy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Department of Pharmacy, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Peyret A, Ibarboure E, Le Meins J, Lecommandoux S. Asymmetric Hybrid Polymer-Lipid Giant Vesicles as Cell Membrane Mimics. ADVANCED SCIENCE (WEINHEIM, BADEN-WURTTEMBERG, GERMANY) 2018; 5:1700453. [PMID: 29375971 PMCID: PMC5770682 DOI: 10.1002/advs.201700453] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/07/2017] [Revised: 10/17/2017] [Indexed: 05/29/2023]
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Lipid membrane asymmetry plays an important role in cell function and activity, being for instance a relevant signal of its integrity. The development of artificial asymmetric membranes thus represents a key challenge. In this context, an emulsion-centrifugation method is developed to prepare giant vesicles with an asymmetric membrane composed of an inner monolayer of poly(butadiene)-b-poly(ethylene oxide) (PBut-b-PEO) and outer monolayer of 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC). The formation of a complete membrane asymmetry is demonstrated and its stability with time is followed by measuring lipid transverse diffusion. From fluorescence spectroscopy measurements, the lipid half-life is estimated to be 7.5 h. Using fluorescence recovery after photobleaching technique, the diffusion coefficient of 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine-N-(lissamine rhodamine B sulfonyl) (DOPE-rhod, inserted into the POPC leaflet) is determined to be about D = 1.8 ± 0.50 μm2 s-1 at 25 °C and D = 2.3 ± 0.7 μm2 s-1 at 37 °C, between the characteristic values of pure POPC and pure polymer giant vesicles and in good agreement with the diffusion of lipids in a variety of biological membranes. These results demonstrate the ability to prepare a cell-like model system that displays an asymmetric membrane with transverse and translational diffusion properties similar to that of biological cells.
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- Ariane Peyret
- Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères OrganiquesLCPOUniversité de BordeauxCNRSBordeaux INPUMR 562916 Avenue Pey BerlandF‐33600PessacFrance
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- Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères OrganiquesLCPOUniversité de BordeauxCNRSBordeaux INPUMR 562916 Avenue Pey BerlandF‐33600PessacFrance
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- Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères OrganiquesLCPOUniversité de BordeauxCNRSBordeaux INPUMR 562916 Avenue Pey BerlandF‐33600PessacFrance
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- Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères OrganiquesLCPOUniversité de BordeauxCNRSBordeaux INPUMR 562916 Avenue Pey BerlandF‐33600PessacFrance
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Moles E, Galiano S, Gomes A, Quiliano M, Teixeira C, Aldana I, Gomes P, Fernàndez-Busquets X. ImmunoPEGliposomes for the targeted delivery of novel lipophilic drugs to red blood cells in a falciparum malaria murine model. Biomaterials 2017; 145:178-191. [PMID: 28869864 DOI: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2017.08.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2017] [Revised: 07/13/2017] [Accepted: 08/14/2017] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Most drugs currently entering the clinical pipeline for severe malaria therapeutics are of lipophilic nature, with a relatively poor solubility in plasma and large biodistribution volumes. Low amounts of these compounds do consequently accumulate in circulating Plasmodium-infected red blood cells, exhibiting limited antiparasitic activity. These drawbacks can in principle be satisfactorily dealt with by stably encapsulating drugs in targeted nanocarriers. Here this approach has been adapted for its use in immunocompetent mice infected by the Plasmodium yoelii 17XL lethal strain, selected as a model for human blood infections by Plasmodium falciparum. Using immunoliposomes targeted against a surface protein characteristic of the murine erythroid lineage, the protocol has been applied to two novel antimalarial lipophilic drug candidates, an aminoquinoline and an aminoalcohol. Large encapsulation yields of >90% were obtained using a citrate-buffered pH gradient method and the resulting immunoliposomes reached in vivo erythrocyte targeting and retention efficacies of >80%. In P. yoelii-infected mice, the immunoliposomized aminoquinoline succeeded in decreasing blood parasitemia from severe to uncomplicated malaria parasite densities (i.e. from ≥25% to ca. 5%), whereas the same amount of drug encapsulated in non-targeted liposomes had no significant effect on parasite growth. Pharmacokinetic analysis indicated that this good performance was obtained with a rapid clearance of immunoliposomes from the circulation (blood half-life of ca. 2 h), suggesting a potential for improvement of the proposed model.
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- Ernest Moles
- Nanomalaria Group, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Baldiri Reixac 10-12, ES-08028, Barcelona, Spain; Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona Center for International Health Research (CRESIB, Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona), Rosselló 149-153, ES-08036, Barcelona, Spain; Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute (IN2UB), University of Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, ES-08028, Barcelona, Spain.
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- Universidad de Navarra, Instituto de Salud Tropical (ISTUN), Campus Universitario, ES-31008, Pamplona, Spain; Universidad de Navarra, Facultad de Farmacia y Nutrición, Departamento de Química Orgánica y Farmacéutica, Campus Universitario, ES-31008, Pamplona, Spain
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- LAQV-REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 685, P-4169-007, Porto, Portugal
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- Universidad de Navarra, Instituto de Salud Tropical (ISTUN), Campus Universitario, ES-31008, Pamplona, Spain; Universidad de Navarra, Facultad de Farmacia y Nutrición, Departamento de Química Orgánica y Farmacéutica, Campus Universitario, ES-31008, Pamplona, Spain
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- LAQV-REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 685, P-4169-007, Porto, Portugal
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- Universidad de Navarra, Instituto de Salud Tropical (ISTUN), Campus Universitario, ES-31008, Pamplona, Spain; Universidad de Navarra, Facultad de Farmacia y Nutrición, Departamento de Química Orgánica y Farmacéutica, Campus Universitario, ES-31008, Pamplona, Spain
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- LAQV-REQUIMTE, Departamento de Química e Bioquímica, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade do Porto, Rua do Campo Alegre 685, P-4169-007, Porto, Portugal
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- Nanomalaria Group, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Baldiri Reixac 10-12, ES-08028, Barcelona, Spain; Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Barcelona Center for International Health Research (CRESIB, Hospital Clínic-Universitat de Barcelona), Rosselló 149-153, ES-08036, Barcelona, Spain; Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Institute (IN2UB), University of Barcelona, Martí i Franquès 1, ES-08028, Barcelona, Spain.
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Tabaei SR, Gillissen JJJ, Vafaei S, Groves JT, Cho NJ. Size-dependent, stochastic nature of lipid exchange between nano-vesicles and model membranes. NANOSCALE 2016; 8:13513-13520. [PMID: 27355613 DOI: 10.1039/c6nr03817d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The interaction of nanoscale lipid vesicles with cell membranes is of fundamental importance for the design and development of vesicular drug delivery systems. Here, we introduce a novel approach to study vesicle-membrane interactions whereby we are able to probe the influence of nanoscale membrane properties on the dynamic adsorption, exchange, and detachment of vesicles. Using total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy, we monitor these processes in real-time upon the electrostatically tuned attachment of individual, sub-100 nm vesicles to a supported lipid bilayer. The observed exponential vesicle detachment rate depends strongly on the vesicle size, but not on the vesicle charge, which suggests that lipid exchange occurs during a single stochastic event, which is consistent with membrane stalk formation. The fluorescence microscopy assay developed in this work may enable measuring of the probability of stalk formation in a controlled manner, which is of fundamental importance in membrane biology, offering a new tool to understand nanoscale phenomena in the context of biological sciences.
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- Seyed R Tabaei
- School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, 50 Nanyang Avenue 639798, Singapore.
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Eicher-Lorka O, Charkova T, Matijoška A, Kuodis Z, Urbelis G, Penkauskas T, Mickevičius M, Bulovas A, Valinčius G. Cholesterol-based tethers and markers for model membranes investigation. Chem Phys Lipids 2016; 195:71-86. [PMID: 26772524 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2015.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2015] [Revised: 12/16/2015] [Accepted: 12/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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A series of new bifunctional cholesterol compounds for tethered bilayer membrane (tBLM) systems were synthesized and tested. The compounds containing cyclic disulfide group may be used as molecular anchors for phospholipid bilayers. Anchoring occurs through the insertion of the cholesterol moiety into the hydrophobic slab of the phospholipid layer, while the surface density of anchor molecules may be adjusted using disulfides terminated spacers. Five ethylene oxide segments between the disulfide group and the cholesteryl provide hydration of the layer separating solid support and model membrane. Another group of cholesterol derivatives described in this work contains either fluorescence probe or electroactive functional groups. We demonstrated the practical utility of these compounds for visualization of cholesterol extraction from and loading to tBLMs. We demonstrated that electroactive group containing cholesterol derivatives can be reconstituted either into vesicles or tBLMs. In both cases an electrochemical signal can be generated on electrodes from these probes. In general, the newly synthesized compound may be utilized in a variety of applications involving tethered bilayer systems and vesicles.
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- O Eicher-Lorka
- Institute of Chemistry, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, A. Goštauto St. 9, LT-01108 Vilnius, Lithuania.
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- Institute of Chemistry, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, A. Goštauto St. 9, LT-01108 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Chemistry, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, A. Goštauto St. 9, LT-01108 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Chemistry, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, A. Goštauto St. 9, LT-01108 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Chemistry, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, A. Goštauto St. 9, LT-01108 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Vilnius University, Mokslininkų St. 12, LT-08662 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Vilnius University, Mokslininkų St. 12, LT-08662 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Vilnius University, Mokslininkų St. 12, LT-08662 Vilnius, Lithuania
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- Institute of Biochemistry, Vilnius University, Mokslininkų St. 12, LT-08662 Vilnius, Lithuania
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Jackman JA, Kim MC, Zhdanov VP, Cho NJ. Relationship between vesicle size and steric hindrance influences vesicle rupture on solid supports. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:3065-72. [DOI: 10.1039/c5cp06786c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Although it is thermodynamically favorable for adsorbed vesicles to rupture with increasing vesicle size, this study demonstrates that steric hindrance acts as a kinetic barrier to impede large vesicles from rupturing.
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- Joshua A. Jackman
- School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Nanyang Technological University
- Singapore
- Centre for Biomimetic Sensor Science
- Nanyang Technological University
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Nanyang Technological University
- Singapore
- Centre for Biomimetic Sensor Science
- Nanyang Technological University
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Nanyang Technological University
- Singapore
- Centre for Biomimetic Sensor Science
- Nanyang Technological University
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- School of Materials Science and Engineering
- Nanyang Technological University
- Singapore
- Centre for Biomimetic Sensor Science
- Nanyang Technological University
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Yang PW, Lin TL, Hu Y, Jeng US. A time-resolved study on the interaction of oppositely charged bicelles--implications on the charged lipid exchange kinetics. SOFT MATTER 2015; 11:2237-2242. [PMID: 25649711 DOI: 10.1039/c4sm02886d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Time-resolved small-angle X-ray scattering was applied to study charged lipid exchange between oppositely charged disc-shaped bicelles. The exchange of charged lipids gradually reduces the surface charge density and weakens the electrostatic attraction between the oppositely charged bicelles which form alternately stacked aggregates upon mixing. Initially, at a high surface charge density with almost no free water layer between the stacked bicelles, fast exchange kinetics dominate the exchange process. At a later stage with a lower surface charge density and a larger water gap between the stacked bicelles, slow exchange kinetics take over. The fast exchange kinetics are correlated with the close contact of the bicelles when there is almost no free water layer between the tightly bound bicelles with a charged lipid exchange time constant as short as 20-40 min. When the water gap becomes large enough to have a free water layer between the stacked bicelles, the fast lipid exchange kinetics are taken over by slow lipid exchange kinetics with time constants around 200-300 min, which are comparable to the typical time constant of lipid exchange between vesicles in aqueous solution. These two kinds of exchange mode fit well with the lipid exchange models of transient hemifusion for the fast mode and monomer exchange for the slow mode.
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- Po-Wei Yang
- Department of Engineering and System Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, Republic of China.
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Fang J, Ren C, Zhu T, Wang K, Jiang Z, Ma Y. Comparison of the different responses of surface plasmon resonance and quartz crystal microbalance techniques at solid–liquid interfaces under various experimental conditions. Analyst 2015; 140:1323-36. [DOI: 10.1039/c4an01756k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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The different characteristics of surface plasmon resonance and quartz crystal microbalance techniques under different experimental scenarios are discussed.
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- Jiajie Fang
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and Department of Physics
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing 210093
- China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and Department of Physics
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing 210093
- China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and Department of Physics
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing 210093
- China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and Department of Physics
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing 210093
- China
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and Department of Physics
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing 210093
- China
- School of Electronics and Information and College of Chemistry and Biological Science
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- Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures and Department of Physics
- Nanjing University
- Nanjing 210093
- China
- Laboratory of Soft Condensed Matter Physics and Interdisciplinary Research
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Wargenau A, Tufenkji N. Direct detection of the gel-fluid phase transition of a single supported phospholipid bilayer using quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring. Anal Chem 2014; 86:8017-20. [PMID: 25068734 DOI: 10.1021/ac5019183] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Supported phospholipid bilayers (SPBs) are valuable models for fundamental studies of biological membranes and their interaction with biologically relevant solutes or particles. Herein, we demonstrate the capability of the quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) to directly detect the gel-fluid phase transition of a SPB. The approach involves comparison of the frequency response of a bare and a bilayer-coated QCM-D crystal during linear temperature variation. Phase transition results in a change of the resonance frequency that coincides directly with the accompanied change in bilayer thickness detected by ellipsometry. Experiments performed at different heating rates further demonstrate the use of dissipation monitoring to determine the phase transition temperature based on the temperature-induced viscosity changes of the ambient medium in the immediate environment of the bilayer. Unlike other methods, the proposed approach enables precise determination of the phase transition of a SPB without the need for thermal equilibration of the measurement chamber and, thus, has great potential for sensitive detection of structural and/or compositional changes of the bilayer.
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- Andreas Wargenau
- Department of Chemical Engineering, McGill University , Montreal, Quebec H3A 0C5, Canada
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Kel O, Tamimi A, Fayer MD. The Influence of Cholesterol on Fast Dynamics Inside of Vesicle and Planar Phospholipid Bilayers Measured with 2D IR Spectroscopy. J Phys Chem B 2014; 119:8852-62. [DOI: 10.1021/jp503940k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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- Oksana Kel
- Department
of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5080, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5080, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305-5080, United States
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Size-dependent ultrafast structural dynamics inside phospholipid vesicle bilayers measured with 2D IR vibrational echoes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:918-23. [PMID: 24395796 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1323110111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The ultrafast structural dynamics inside the bilayers of dilauroylphosphatidylcholine (DLPC) and dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles with 70, 90, and 125 nm diameters were directly measured with 2D IR vibrational echo spectroscopy. The antisymmetric CO stretch of tungsten hexacarbonyl was used as a vibrational probe and provided information on spectral diffusion (structural dynamics) in the alkyl region of the bilayers. Although the CO stretch absorption spectra remain the same, the interior structural dynamics become faster as the size of the vesicles decrease, with the size dependence greater for dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine than for DLPC. As DLPC vesicles become larger, the interior dynamics approach those of the planar bilayer.
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Zhu T, Jiang Z, Nurlybaeva EMR, Sheng J, Ma Y. Effect of osmotic stress on membrane fusion on solid substrate. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2013; 29:6377-6385. [PMID: 23631459 DOI: 10.1021/la401054g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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There is currently a lack of comprehensive understanding of osmotic effect on lipid vesicle fusion on solid oxide surface. The question has both biological and biomedical implications. We studied the effect by quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring using NaCl, sucrose as osmolytes, and two different osmotic stress imposition methods, which allowed us to separate the osmotic effects from the solute impacts. Osmotic stress was found to have limited influence on the fusion kinetics, independently of the direction of the gradient. Further atomic force microscopy experiments and energy consideration implied that osmotic stress spends the majority of chemical potential energy associated in directed transport of water across membrane. Its contribution to vesicle deformation and fusion on substrate is therefore small compared to that of adhesion.
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- Tao Zhu
- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and Department of Physics, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, China
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