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Pamungkas KKP, Fureraj I, Assies L, Sakai N, Mercier V, Chen XX, Vauthey E, Matile S. Core-Alkynylated Fluorescent Flippers: Altered Ultrafast Photophysics to Track Thick Membranes. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2024; 63:e202406204. [PMID: 38758302 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202406204] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2024] [Revised: 05/06/2024] [Accepted: 05/16/2024] [Indexed: 05/18/2024]
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Fluorescent flippers have been introduced as small-molecule probes to image membrane tension in living systems. This study describes the design, synthesis, spectroscopic and imaging properties of flippers that are elongated by one and two alkynes inserted between the push and the pull dithienothiophene domains. The resulting mechanophores combine characteristics of flippers, reporting on physical compression in the ground state, and molecular rotors, reporting on torsional motion in the excited state, to take their photophysics to new level of sophistication. Intensity ratios in broadened excitation bands from differently twisted conformers of core-alkynylated flippers thus report on mechanical compression. Lifetime boosts from ultrafast excited-state planarization and lifetime drops from competitive intersystem crossing into triplet states report on viscosity. In standard lipid bilayer membranes, core-alkynylated flippers are too long for one leaflet and tilt or extend into disordered interleaflet space, which preserves rotor-like torsional disorder and thus weak, blue-shifted fluorescence. Flipper-like planarization occurs only in highly ordered membranes of matching leaflet thickness, where they light up and selectively report on these thick membranes with red-shifted, sharpened excitation maxima, high intensity and long lifetime.
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Physical Chemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Sonnino S, Chiricozzi E, Grassi S, Mauri L, Prioni S, Prinetti A. Gangliosides in Membrane Organization. PROGRESS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE 2018; 156:83-120. [PMID: 29747825 DOI: 10.1016/bs.pmbts.2017.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Since the structure of GM1 was elucidated 55years ago, researchers have been attracted by the sialylated glycans of gangliosides. Gangliosides head groups, protruding toward the extracellular space, significantly contribute to the cell glycocalyx; and in certain cells, such as neurons, are major determinants of the features of the cell surface. Expression of glycosyltransferases involved in the de novo biosynthesis of gangliosides is tightly regulated along cell differentiation and activation, and is regarded as the main metabolic mechanism responsible for the acquisition of cell-specific ganglioside patterns. The resulting sialooligosaccharides are characterized by a high degree of geometrical complexity and by highly dynamic properties, which seem to be functional for complex interactions with other molecules sitting on the same cellular membrane (cis-interactions) or soluble molecules present in the extracellular environment, or molecules associated with the surface of other cells (trans-interactions). There is no doubt that the multifaceted biological functions of gangliosides are largely dependent on oligosaccharide-mediated molecular interactions. However, gangliosides are amphipathic membrane lipids, and their chemicophysical, aggregational, and, consequently, biological properties are dictated by the properties of the monomers as a whole, which are not merely dependent on the structures of their polar head groups. In this chapter, we would like to focus on the peculiar chemicophysical features of gangliosides (in particular, those of the nervous system), that represent an important driving force determining the organization and properties of cellular membranes, and to emphasize the causal connections between altered ganglioside-dependent membrane organization and relevant pathological conditions.
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Molugu TR, Lee S, Brown MF. Concepts and Methods of Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy Applied to Biomembranes. Chem Rev 2017; 117:12087-12132. [PMID: 28906107 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Concepts of solid-state NMR spectroscopy and applications to fluid membranes are reviewed in this paper. Membrane lipids with 2H-labeled acyl chains or polar head groups are studied using 2H NMR to yield knowledge of their atomistic structures in relation to equilibrium properties. This review demonstrates the principles and applications of solid-state NMR by unifying dipolar and quadrupolar interactions and highlights the unique features offered by solid-state 2H NMR with experimental illustrations. For randomly oriented multilamellar lipids or aligned membranes, solid-state 2H NMR enables direct measurement of residual quadrupolar couplings (RQCs) due to individual C-2H-labeled segments. The distribution of RQC values gives nearly complete profiles of the segmental order parameters SCD(i) as a function of acyl segment position (i). Alternatively, one can measure residual dipolar couplings (RDCs) for natural abundance lipid samples to obtain segmental SCH order parameters. A theoretical mean-torque model provides acyl-packing profiles representing the cumulative chain extension along the normal to the aqueous interface. Equilibrium structural properties of fluid bilayers and various thermodynamic quantities can then be calculated, which describe the interactions with cholesterol, detergents, peptides, and integral membrane proteins and formation of lipid rafts. One can also obtain direct information for membrane-bound peptides or proteins by measuring RDCs using magic-angle spinning (MAS) in combination with dipolar recoupling methods. Solid-state NMR methods have been extensively applied to characterize model membranes and membrane-bound peptides and proteins, giving unique information on their conformations, orientations, and interactions in the natural liquid-crystalline state.
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- Trivikram R Molugu
- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and ‡Department of Physics, University of Arizona , Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and ‡Department of Physics, University of Arizona , Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry and ‡Department of Physics, University of Arizona , Tucson, Arizona 85721, United States
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Lazzarini A, Macchiarulo A, Floridi A, Coletti A, Cataldi S, Codini M, Lazzarini R, Bartoccini E, Cascianelli G, Ambesi-Impiombato FS, Beccari T, Curcio F, Albi E. Very-long-chain fatty acid sphingomyelin in nuclear lipid microdomains of hepatocytes and hepatoma cells: can the exchange from C24:0 to C16:0 affect signal proteins and vitamin D receptor? Mol Biol Cell 2016; 26:2418-25. [PMID: 26124436 PMCID: PMC4571297 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e15-04-0229] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
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Lipid microdomains localized in the inner nuclear membrane are considered platforms for active chromatin anchoring. Stimuli such as surgery, vitamin D, or glucocorticoid drugs influence their gene expression, DNA duplication, and RNA synthesis. In this study, we used ultrafast liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry to identify sphingomyelin (SM) species coupled with immunoblot analysis to comprehensively map differences in nuclear lipid microdomains (NLMs) purified from hepatocytes and hepatoma cells. We showed that NLMs lost saturated very-long-chain fatty acid (FA; C24:0) SM in cancer cells and became enriched in long-chain FA (C16:0) SM. We also found that signaling proteins, such as STAT3, Raf1, and PKCζ, were increased and vitamin D receptor was reduced in cancer cells. Because recent researches showed a shift in sphingolipid composition from C24:0 to C16:0 in relation to cell life, we performed a comparative analysis of properties among C16:0 SM, C24:0 SM, and cholesterol. Our results led us to hypothesize that the enrichment of C16:0 SM could determine enhanced dynamic properties of NLMs in cancer cells with an increased shuttling of protein signaling molecules.
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- Andrea Lazzarini
- Laboratory of Nuclear Lipid BioPathology, CRABiON, 06100 Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Lipid BioPathology, CRABiON, 06100 Perugia, Italy
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Lipid BioPathology, CRABiON, 06100 Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Science, University of Perugia, 06123 Perugia, Italy
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- Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences, University of Udine, 33100 Udine, Italy
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- Laboratory of Nuclear Lipid BioPathology, CRABiON, 06100 Perugia, Italy
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Gallová J, Klacsová M, Devínsky F, Balgavý P. Partial volumes of cholesterol and monounsaturated diacylphosphatidylcholines in mixed bilayers. Chem Phys Lipids 2015; 190:1-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2015.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2015] [Revised: 05/20/2015] [Accepted: 06/15/2015] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Wüstner D, Solanko K. How cholesterol interacts with proteins and lipids during its intracellular transport. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2015; 1848:1908-26. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2015.05.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2015] [Revised: 04/14/2015] [Accepted: 05/13/2015] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Leftin A, Molugu TR, Job C, Beyer K, Brown MF. Area per lipid and cholesterol interactions in membranes from separated local-field (13)C NMR spectroscopy. Biophys J 2015; 107:2274-86. [PMID: 25418296 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.07.044] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2014] [Revised: 06/24/2014] [Accepted: 07/15/2014] [Indexed: 10/24/2022] Open
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Investigations of lipid membranes using NMR spectroscopy generally require isotopic labeling, often precluding structural studies of complex lipid systems. Solid-state (13)C magic-angle spinning NMR spectroscopy at natural isotopic abundance gives site-specific structural information that can aid in the characterization of complex biomembranes. Using the separated local-field experiment DROSS, we resolved (13)C-(1)H residual dipolar couplings that were interpreted with a statistical mean-torque model. Liquid-disordered and liquid-ordered phases were characterized according to membrane thickness and average cross-sectional area per lipid. Knowledge of such structural parameters is vital for molecular dynamics simulations, and provides information about the balance of forces in membrane lipid bilayers. Experiments were conducted with both phosphatidylcholine (dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine (POPC)) and egg-yolk sphingomyelin (EYSM) lipids, and allowed us to extract segmental order parameters from the (13)C-(1)H residual dipolar couplings. Order parameters were used to calculate membrane structural quantities, including the area per lipid and bilayer thickness. Relative to POPC, EYSM is more ordered in the ld phase and experiences less structural perturbation upon adding 50% cholesterol to form the lo phase. The loss of configurational entropy is smaller for EYSM than for POPC, thus favoring its interaction with cholesterol in raftlike lipid systems. Our studies show that solid-state (13)C NMR spectroscopy is applicable to investigations of complex lipids and makes it possible to obtain structural parameters for biomembrane systems where isotope labeling may be prohibitive.
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- Avigdor Leftin
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona; Department of Physics, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
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Carravilla P, Nieva JL, Goñi FM, Requejo-Isidro J, Huarte N. Two-photon Laurdan studies of the ternary lipid mixture DOPC:SM:cholesterol reveal a single liquid phase at sphingomyelin:cholesterol ratios lower than 1. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2015; 31:2808-2817. [PMID: 25658036 DOI: 10.1021/la504251u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The ternary lipid mixture DOPC:eggSM:cholesterol in excess water has been studied in the form of giant unilamellar vesicles using two-photon fluorescence microscopy. Previous publications based on single-photon fluorescence microscopy had reported heterogeneous phase behavior (phase coexistence) in the region of the triangular phase diagram corresponding to SM:cholesterol molar ratios <1. We have examined this region by two-photon microscopy of Laurdan-labeled mixtures and have found that, under our conditions, only a single liquid phase exists. We have shown that macroscopic phase separation in the above region can be artifactually induced by one-photon excitation of the fluorescent probes and ensuing photooxidation and is prevented using two-photon excitation. The main effect of increasing the concentration of cholesterol in mixtures containing 30 mol % SM was to increase the rigidity of the disordered domains. Increasing the concentration of SM in mixtures containing 20 mol % cholesterol gradually augmented the rigidity of the ordered domains, while the disordered domains reached minimal order at a SM:cholesterol 2.25:1 molar ratio, which then increased again. Moreover, the detailed measurement of Laurdan generalized polarization across the whole phase diagram allowed the representation, for both the single- and two-phase regions, of the gradual variation of membrane lateral packing along the diagram, which we found to be governed largely by SM:cholesterol interactions.
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- Pablo Carravilla
- Unidad de Biofísica (CSIC, UPV/EHU), Barrio de Sarriena s/n, 48490 Leioa, Spain
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Ferraro M, Masetti M, Recanatini M, Cavalli A, Bottegoni G. Modeling lipid raft domains containing a mono-unsaturated phosphatidylethanolamine species. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra02196k] [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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An advanced coarse-grained model for “atypical” lipid rafts was built and validated to be employed in studies of membrane-protein interactions.
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- M. Ferraro
- D3 Compunet
- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
- Genova
- Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology
- Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
- Bologna
- Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology
- Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna
- Bologna
- Italy
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- D3 Compunet
- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
- Genova
- Italy
- Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology
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- D3 Compunet
- Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia
- Genova
- Italy
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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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Volinsky R, Kinnunen PKJ. Oxidized phosphatidylcholines in membrane-level cellular signaling: from biophysics to physiology and molecular pathology. FEBS J 2013; 280:2806-16. [PMID: 23506295 DOI: 10.1111/febs.12247] [Citation(s) in RCA: 271] [Impact Index Per Article: 24.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/19/2012] [Revised: 01/15/2013] [Accepted: 02/27/2013] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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The oxidation of lipids has been shown to impact virtually all cellular processes. The paradigm has been that this involvement is due to interference with the functions of membrane-associated proteins. It is only recently that methodological advances in molecular-level detection and identification have begun to provide insights into oxidative lipid modification and its involvement in cell signaling as well as in major diseases and inflammation. Extensive evidence suggests a correlation between lipid peroxidation and degenerative neurological diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, as well as type 2 diabetes and cancer. Despite the obvious relevance of understanding the molecular basis of the above ailments, the exact modes of action of oxidized lipids have remained elusive. In this minireview, we summarize recent findings on the biophysical characteristics of biomembranes following oxidative derivatization of their lipids, and how these altered properties are involved in both physiological processes and major pathological conditions. Lipid-bearing, oxidatively truncated and functionalized acyl chains are known to modify membrane bulk physical properties, such as thermal phase behavior, bilayer thickness, hydration and polarity profiles, as manifest in the altered structural dynamics of lipid bilayers, leading to augmented membrane permeability, fast lipid transbilayer diffusion (flip-flop), loss of lipid asymmetry (scrambling) and phase segregation (the formation of 'rafts'). These changes, together with the generated reactive lipid derivatives, can be further expected to interfere with lipid-protein interactions, influencing metabolic pathways, causing inflammation, the execution phase in apoptosis and initiating pathological processes.
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- Roman Volinsky
- Helsinki Biophysics & Biomembrane Group, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland
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Matsumori N, Yasuda T, Okazaki H, Suzuki T, Yamaguchi T, Tsuchikawa H, Doi M, Oishi T, Murata M. Comprehensive Molecular Motion Capture for Sphingomyelin by Site-Specific Deuterium Labeling. Biochemistry 2012; 51:8363-70. [DOI: 10.1021/bi3009399] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Nobuaki Matsumori
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka,
Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka,
Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka,
Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka,
Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka,
Osaka 560-0043, Japan
- ERATO,
Lipid Active Structure
Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka,
Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka,
Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Sciences, Kyushu University,
Higashi-ku, Fukuoka 812-8581, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate
School of Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka,
Osaka 560-0043, Japan
- ERATO,
Lipid Active Structure
Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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Oxidized phosphatidylcholines promote phase separation of cholesterol-sphingomyelin domains. Biophys J 2012; 103:247-54. [PMID: 22853902 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2012.06.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2012] [Revised: 05/08/2012] [Accepted: 06/11/2012] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Lipid lateral segregation in the plasma membrane is believed to play an important role in cell physiology. Sphingomyelin (SM) and cholesterol (Chol)-enriched microdomains have been proposed as liquid-ordered phase platforms that serve to localize signaling complexes and modulate the intrinsic activities of the associated proteins. We modeled plasma membrane domain organization using Langmuir monolayers of ternary POPC/SM/Chol as well as DMPC/SM/Chol mixtures, which exhibit a surface-pressure-dependent miscibility transition of the coexisting liquid-ordered and -disordered phases. Using Brewster angle microscopy and Langmuir monolayer compression isotherms, we show that the presence of an oxidatively modified phosphatidylcholine, 1-palmitoyl-2-azelaoyl-sn-glydecero-3-phosphocholine, efficiently opposes the miscibility transition and stabilizes micron-sized domain separation at lipid lateral packing densities corresponding to the equilibrium lateral pressure of ∼32 mN/m that is suggested to prevail in bilayer membranes. This effect is ascribed to augmented hydrophobic mismatch induced by the oxidatively truncated phosphatidylcholine. To our knowledge, our results represent the first quantitative estimate of the relevant level of phospholipid oxidation that can potentially induce changes in cell membrane organization and its associated functions.
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Gangliosides and the multiscale modulation of membrane structure. Chem Phys Lipids 2011; 164:796-810. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2011.09.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2011] [Revised: 09/12/2011] [Accepted: 09/13/2011] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Matsumori N, Okazaki H, Nomura K, Murata M. Fluorinated cholesterol retains domain-forming activity in sphingomyelin bilayers. Chem Phys Lipids 2011; 164:401-8. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2011.05.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2011] [Revised: 05/21/2011] [Accepted: 05/24/2011] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Sonnino S, Prinetti A. Lipids and membrane lateral organization. Front Physiol 2010; 1:153. [PMID: 21423393 PMCID: PMC3059948 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2010.00153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2010] [Accepted: 10/28/2010] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Shortly after the elucidation of the very basic structure and properties of cellular membranes, it became evident that cellular membranes are highly organized structures with multiple and multi-dimensional levels of order. Very early observations suggested that the lipid components of biological membranes might be active players in the creation of these levels of order. In the late 1980s, several different and diverse experimental pieces of evidence coalesced together giving rise to the lipid raft hypothesis. Lipid rafts became enormously (and, in the opinion of these authors, sometimes acritically) popular, surprisingly not just within the lipidologist community (who is supposed to be naturally sensitive to the fascination of lipid rafts). Today, a PubMed search using the key word "lipid rafts" returned a list of 3767 papers, including 690 reviews (as a term of comparison, searching over the same time span for a very hot lipid-related key word, "ceramide" returned 6187 hits with 799 reviews), and a tremendous number of different cellular functions have been described as "lipid raft-dependent." However, a clear consensus definition of lipid raft has been proposed only in recent times, and the basic properties, the ruling forces, and even the existence of lipid rafts in living cells has been recently matter of intense debate. The scenario that is gradually emerging from the controversies elicited by the lipid raft hypothesis emphasizes multiple roles for membrane lipids in determining membrane order, that encompass their tendency to phase separation but are clearly not limited to this. In this review, we would like to re-focus the attention of the readers on the importance of lipids in organizing the fine structure of cellular membranes.
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- Sandro Sonnino
- Department of Medical Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of MilanoMilano, Italy
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- Department of Medical Chemistry, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, University of MilanoMilano, Italy
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Pires ACS, Soares NDFF, da Silva LHM, da Silva MCH, Mageste AB, Soares RF, Teixeira ÁVNC, Andrade NJ. Thermodynamic Study of Colorimetric Transitions in Polydiacetylene Vesicles Induced by the Solvent Effect. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:13365-71. [DOI: 10.1021/jp105604t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Ana Clarissa S. Pires
- Departamento de Tecnologia de Alimentos, Departamento de Química, and Departamento de Física, Centro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Av. P.H. Rolfs, s/n, Viçosa, MG, 36570-000 Brazil
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- Departamento de Tecnologia de Alimentos, Departamento de Química, and Departamento de Física, Centro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Av. P.H. Rolfs, s/n, Viçosa, MG, 36570-000 Brazil
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- Departamento de Tecnologia de Alimentos, Departamento de Química, and Departamento de Física, Centro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Av. P.H. Rolfs, s/n, Viçosa, MG, 36570-000 Brazil
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- Departamento de Tecnologia de Alimentos, Departamento de Química, and Departamento de Física, Centro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Av. P.H. Rolfs, s/n, Viçosa, MG, 36570-000 Brazil
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- Departamento de Tecnologia de Alimentos, Departamento de Química, and Departamento de Física, Centro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Av. P.H. Rolfs, s/n, Viçosa, MG, 36570-000 Brazil
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- Departamento de Tecnologia de Alimentos, Departamento de Química, and Departamento de Física, Centro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Av. P.H. Rolfs, s/n, Viçosa, MG, 36570-000 Brazil
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- Departamento de Tecnologia de Alimentos, Departamento de Química, and Departamento de Física, Centro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Av. P.H. Rolfs, s/n, Viçosa, MG, 36570-000 Brazil
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- Departamento de Tecnologia de Alimentos, Departamento de Química, and Departamento de Física, Centro de Ciências Exatas e Tecnológicas, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Av. P.H. Rolfs, s/n, Viçosa, MG, 36570-000 Brazil
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Vidová V, Pól J, Volny M, Novák P, Havlícek V, Wiedmer SK, Holopainen JM. Visualizing spatial lipid distribution in porcine lens by MALDI imaging high-resolution mass spectrometry. J Lipid Res 2010; 51:2295-302. [PMID: 20388918 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.m005488] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The intraocular lens contains high levels of both cholesterol and sphingolipids, which are believed to be functionally important for normal lens physiology. The aim of this study was to explore the spatial distribution of sphingolipids in the ocular lens using mass spectrometry imaging (MSI). Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) imaging with ultra high resolution Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FT-ICR MS) was used to visualize the lipid spatial distribution. Equatorially-cryosectioned, 12 microm thick slices of tissue were thaw-mounted to an indium-tin oxide (ITO) glass slide by soft-landing to an ethanol layer. This procedure maintained the tissue integrity. After the automated MALDI matrix deposition, the entire lens section was examined by MALDI MSI in a 150 microm raster. We obtained spatial- and concentration-dependent distributions of seven lens sphingomyelins (SM) and two ceramide-1-phosphates (CerP), which are important lipid second messengers. Glycosylated sphingolipids or sphingolipid breakdown products were not observed. Owing to ultra high resolution MS, all lipids were identified with high confidence, and distinct distribution patterns for each of them are presented. The distribution patterns of SMs provide an understanding of the physiological functioning of these lipids in clear lenses and offer a novel pathophysiological means for understanding diseases of the lens.
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- Veronika Vidová
- Laboratory of Molecular Structure Characterization, Institute of Microbiology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic
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Staneva G, Chachaty C, Wolf C, Quinn PJ. Comparison of the liquid-ordered bilayer phases containing cholesterol or 7-dehydrocholesterol in modeling Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome. J Lipid Res 2010; 51:1810-22. [PMID: 20147702 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.m003467] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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The phase behavior of egg sphingomyelin (ESM) mixtures with cholesterol or 7-dehydrocholesterol (7-DHC) has been investigated by independent methods: fluorescence microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and electron spin resonance spectroscopy. In giant vesicles, cholesterol-enriched domains appeared as large and clearly delineated domains assigned to a liquid-ordered (Lo) phase. The domains containing 7-DHC were smaller and had more diffuse boundaries. Separation of a gel phase assigned by X-ray examination to pure sphingomyelin domains coexisting with sterol-enriched domains was observed at temperatures less than 38 degrees C in binary mixtures containing 10-mol% sterol. At higher sterol concentrations, the coexistence of liquid-ordered and liquid-disordered phases was evidenced in the temperature range 20 degrees -50 degrees C. Calculated electron density profiles indicated the location of 7-DHC was more loosely defined than cholesterol, which is localized precisely at a particular depth along the bilayer normal. ESR spectra of spin-labeled fatty acid partitioned in the liquid-ordered component showed a similar, high degree of order for both sterols in the center of the bilayer, but it was higher in the coexisting disordered phase for 7-DHC. The differences detected in the models of the lipid membrane matrix are said to initiate the deleterious consequences of the Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome.
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- Galya Staneva
- Institute of Biophysics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
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Temperature-induced structural transition in-situ in porcine lens--changes observed in void size distribution. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2010; 1798:958-65. [PMID: 20122897 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2010.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2009] [Revised: 01/03/2010] [Accepted: 01/14/2010] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The function of mammalian ocular lens is to provide a sharp image to the retina. Accordingly, the lens needs to be transparent and minimize light scattering. To do so the lens fiber cells first loose intracellular organelles, organize the cytoplasm and arrange the fiber cell membranes. Because the fiber cells are metabolically inactive, the plasma membrane becomes the only cellular organelle and consequently, the phase behavior of these membranes determines the physiological state of the lens. Previous studies have shown that lipids extracted from the nuclear and cortical region of human lens show a temperature-induced phase transition close to the body temperature. Yet, the physiological function of this phase transition is not known, and even the presence of the phase transition in intact lenses is unknown. Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) was used to characterize the sub-nanometer-sized local structure of intact porcine lens and these studies were complemented with differential scanning calorimeter and mass spectrometric analysis in extracted porcine lens lipids. Using PALS, we present evidence for the presence of a temperature-dependent structural transition centered at 35.5 degrees C in-situ in clear extracted porcine lenses. Further studies employing extracted lens lipids and purified egg-yolk sphingomyelin and cholesterol mixtures suggest that the nano-scale transition emerges from the phase behavior of lens lipids. Based on our results, PALS seems to be a viable method for gaining additional information on biological tissues, especially since it enables non-destructive studies on intact tissues.
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Michanek A, Kristen N, Höök F, Nylander T, Sparr E. RNA and DNA interactions with zwitterionic and charged lipid membranes - a DSC and QCM-D study. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2009; 1798:829-38. [PMID: 20036213 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2009.12.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/03/2009] [Revised: 11/12/2009] [Accepted: 12/15/2009] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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The aim of the present study is to establish under which conditions tRNA associates with phospholipid bilayers, and to explore how this interaction influences the lipid bilayer. For this purpose we have studied the association of tRNA or DNA of different sizes and degrees of base pairing with a set of model membrane systems with varying charge densities, composed of zwitterionic phosphatidylcholines (PC) in mixtures with anionic phosphatidylserine (PS) or cationic dioctadecyl-dimethyl-ammoniumbromide (DODAB), and with fluid or solid acyl-chains (oleoyl, myristoyl and palmitoyl). To prove and quantify the attractive interaction between tRNA and model-lipid membrane we used quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D) monitoring to study the tRNA adsorption to deposit phospholipid bilayers from solutions containing monovalent (Na(+)) or divalent (Ca(2+)) cations. The influence of the adsorbed polynucleic acids on the lipid phase transitions and lipid segregation was studied by means of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The basic findings are: i) tRNA adsorbs to zwitterionic liquid-crystalline and gel-phase phospholipid bilayers. The interaction is weak and reversible, and cannot be explained only on the basis of electrostatic attraction. ii) The adsorbed amount of tRNA is higher for liquid-crystalline bilayers compared to gel-phase bilayers, while the presence of divalent cations show no significant effect on the tRNA adsorption. iii) The adsorption of tRNA can lead to segregation in the mixed 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphatidylcholine (DMPC)-1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidylserine (DMPS) and DMPC-DODAB bilayers, where tRNA is likely excluded from the anionic DMPS-rich domains in the first system, and associated with the cationic DODAB-rich domains in the second system. iv) The addition of shorter polynucleic acids influence the chain melting transition and induce segregation in a mixed DMPC-DMPS system, while larger polynucleic acids do not influence the melting transition in these system. The results in this study on tRNA-phospholipid interactions can have implications for understanding its biological function in, e.g., the cell nuclei, as well as in applications in biotechnology and medicine.
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- Agnes Michanek
- Physical Chemistry 1, Lund University, P.O. Box 124, 22100 Lund, Sweden.
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Ahyayauch H, Collado MI, Goñi FM, Lichtenberg D. Cholesterol reverts Triton X-100 preferential solubilization of sphingomyelin over phosphatidylcholine: A31P-NMR study. FEBS Lett 2009; 583:2859-64. [DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2009.07.046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/2009] [Revised: 07/24/2009] [Accepted: 07/24/2009] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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A raft-associated species of phosphatidylethanolamine interacts with cholesterol comparably to sphingomyelin. A Langmuir-Blodgett monolayer study. PLoS One 2009; 4:e5053. [PMID: 19330037 PMCID: PMC2660428 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/22/2008] [Accepted: 02/06/2009] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Background Specific interactions between sphingomyelin (SM) and cholesterol (Ch) are commonly believed to play a key role in the formation of rafts in the biological membranes. A weakness of this model is the implication that these microdomains are confined to the outer bilayer leaflet. The cytoplasmic leaflet, which contains the bulk of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidylserine (PS) and phosphatidylinositol (PI), is thought also to harbour half of the membrane cholesterol. Moreover, SLPE (1-stearoyl-2-linoleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidyl-ethanolamine) has recently been shown to be enriched in isolated detergent-resistant membranes (DRM), and this enrichment was independent of the method of isolation of DRM. Methodology/Principal Findings Here we present quantitative evidence coming from Langmuir-Blodgett monolayer experiments that SLPE forms complex with Ch similar to that between SM and Ch. The energies of these interactions as calculated form the monolayer studies are highly negative. FRAP analysis showed that NBD-Ch recovery was similar in liposomes composed of DOPC/Ch SM or SLPE but not DPPE, providing further evidence that SLPE may form an lo phase in the presence of high Ch concentration. Experiments on the solubility of DOPC liposomes containing DPPE/Ch (1∶1), SM/Ch (1∶1) or SLPE/Ch (1∶1) showed the presence of Triton X-100 insoluble floating fraction (TIFF) in the case of SM/Ch or SLPE/Ch but not in DPPE/Ch containing liposomes. Quantitative determination of particular lipid species in the TIFF fraction confirms the conclusion that SLPE (or similar PE species) could be an important constituent of the inner leaflet raft. Conclusion Such interactions suggest a possible existence of inner-leaflet nanoscale assemblies composed of cholesterol complexes with SLPE or similar unsaturated PE species.
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Souza SL, Capitán MJ, Alvarez J, Funari SS, Lameiro MH, Melo E. Phase behavior of aqueous dispersions of mixtures of N-palmitoyl ceramide and cholesterol: a lipid system with ceramide-cholesterol crystalline lamellar phases. J Phys Chem B 2009; 113:1367-75. [PMID: 19133760 DOI: 10.1021/jp803331k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Ceramides are particularly abundant in the stratum corneum lipid matrix, where they determine its unusual mesostructure, are involved in the lateral segregation of lipid domains in biological cell membranes, and are also known to act as signaling agents in cells. The importance attributed to ceramides in several biological processes has heightened in recent years, demanding a better understanding of their interaction with other membrane components, namely, cholesterol. Structural data concerning pure ceramides in water are relatively scarce, and this is even more the case for mixtures of ceramides with other lipids commonly associated with them in biological systems. We have derived the thermotropic binary phase diagram of mixtures of N-palmitoyl- D-erythro-sphingosine, C16:0-ceramide, and cholesterol in excess water, using differential scanning calorimetry and small- and wide-angle X-ray diffraction. These mixtures are self-organized in lamellar mesostructures that, between other particularities, show two ceramide to cholesterol crystalline phases with molar proportions that approach 2:3 and 1:3. The 2:3 phase crystallizes in a tetragonal arrangement with a lamellar repeat distance of 3.50 nm, which indicates an unusual lipid stacking, probably unilamellar. The uncommon mesostructures formed by ceramides with cholesterol should be considered in the rationalization of their singular structural role in biological systems.
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- Sofia L Souza
- Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica-UNL, Oeiras, Portugal
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Intracellular sterol dynamics. Biochim Biophys Acta Mol Cell Biol Lipids 2009; 1791:636-45. [PMID: 19286471 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbalip.2009.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 192] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2008] [Revised: 02/27/2009] [Accepted: 03/03/2009] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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We review the cellular mechanisms implicated in cholesterol trafficking and distribution. Recent studies have provided new information about the distribution of sterols within cells, including analysis of its transbilayer distribution. The cholesterol interaction with other lipids and its engagement in various trafficking processes will determine its proper level in a specific membrane; making the cholesterol distribution uneven among the various intracellular organelles. The cholesterol content is important since cholesterol plays an essential role in membranes by controlling their physicochemical properties as well as key cellular events such as signal transduction and protein trafficking. Cholesterol movement between cellular organelles is highly dynamic, and can be achieved by vesicular and non-vesicular processes. Various studies have analyzed the proteins that play a significant role in these processes, giving us new information about the relative importance of these two trafficking pathways in cholesterol transport. Although still poorly characterized in many trafficking routes, several potential sterol transport proteins have been described in detail; as a result, molecular mechanisms for sterol transport among membranes start to be appreciated.
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Detailed molecular dynamics simulations of model biological membranes containing cholesterol. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2009; 1788:86-96. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2008.09.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/23/2008] [Revised: 09/09/2008] [Accepted: 09/10/2008] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Kuksis A, Pruzanski W. Phase composition of lipoprotein SM/cholesterol/PtdCho affects FA specificity of sPLA2s. J Lipid Res 2008; 49:2161-8. [DOI: 10.1194/jlr.m800167-jlr200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Mondal S, Mukhopadhyay C. Molecular level investigation of organization in ternary lipid bilayer: a computational approach. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2008; 24:10298-10305. [PMID: 18712895 DOI: 10.1021/la8015589] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The differential organization of lipid components in a multicomponent membrane leads to formation of domains having diverse composition and size. Cholesterol and glycosphingolipids are known to be important components of such lateral assembly. We report here the ordering of cholesterol around ganglioside GM1 and the nature of the cluster from an all-atom simulation of a ternary lipid system. The results are compared with a binary bilayer and a pure phospholipid bilayer. The difference in molecular rearrangements in ternary and binary lipid mixture shows the role of GM1 in the rearrangement of cholesterol. Calculation of the radial distribution function, rotational reorientation, and residence time analysis of cholesterol shows that cholesterol is preferentially accumulating near gangliosides, while the lateral translational motion, rotational diffusion, and order parameter of phospholipids characterize the amount of rigidity imparted on the phospholipid bilayer.
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- Sumita Mondal
- Department of Chemistry, University of Calcutta, 92 A.P.C. Road, Kolkata, India
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Niemelä PS, Hyvönen MT, Vattulainen I. Atom-scale molecular interactions in lipid raft mixtures. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2008; 1788:122-35. [PMID: 18817748 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2008.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2008] [Revised: 08/18/2008] [Accepted: 08/21/2008] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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We review the relationship between molecular interactions and the properties of lipid environments. A specific focus is given on bilayers which contain sphingomyelin (SM) and sterols due to their essential role for the formation of lipid rafts. The discussion is based on recent atom-scale molecular dynamics simulations, complemented by extensive comparison to experimental data. The discussion is divided into four sections. The first part investigates the properties of one-component SM bilayers and compares them to bilayers with phosphatidylcholine (PC), the focus being on a detailed analysis of the hydrogen bonding network in the two bilayers. The second part deals with binary mixtures of sterols with either SM or PC. The results show how the membrane properties may vary substantially depending on the sterol and SM type available, the membrane order and interdigitation being just two of the many examples of this issue. The third part concentrates on the specificity of intermolecular interactions in three-component mixtures of SM, PC and cholesterol (CHOL) under conditions where the concentrations of SM and CHOL are dilute with respect to that of PC. The results show how SM and CHOL favor one another, thus acting as nucleation sites for the formation of highly ordered nanosized domains. Finally, the fourth part discusses the large-scale properties of raft-like membrane environments and compares them to the properties of non-raft membranes. The differences turn out to be substantial. As a particularly intriguing example of this, the lateral pressure profiles of raft-like and non-raft systems indicate that the lipid composition of membrane domains may have a major impact on membrane protein activation.
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- Perttu S Niemelä
- Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
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Tam P, Mahfoud R, Nutikka A, Khine AA, Binnington B, Paroutis P, Lingwood C. Differential intracellular transport and binding of verotoxin 1 and verotoxin 2 to globotriaosylceramide-containing lipid assemblies. J Cell Physiol 2008; 216:750-63. [PMID: 18446787 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.21456] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/09/2023]
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Although verotoxin-1 (VT1) and verotoxin-2 (VT2) share a common receptor, globotriaosyl ceramide (Gb(3)), VT2 induces distinct animal pathology and is preferentially associated with human disease. Moreover VT2 cytotoxicity in vitro is less than VT1. We therefore investigated whether these toxins similarly traffic within cells via similar Gb(3) assemblies. At 4 degrees C, fluorescent-VT1 and VT2 bound both coincident and distinct punctate surface Gb(3) microdomains. After 10 min at 37 degrees C, similar distinct/coincident micropunctate intracellular localization was observed. Most internalized VT2, but not VT1, colocalized with transferrin. After 1 h, VT1 and VT2 coalesced during retrograde transport to the Golgi. During prolonged incubation (3-6 h), VT1, and VT2 (more slowly), exited the Golgi to reach the ER/nuclear envelope. At this time, VT2 induced a previously unreported, retrograde transport-dependent vacuolation. Cell surface and intracellular VT1 showed greater detergent resistance than VT2, suggesting differential 'raft' association. >90% (125)I-VT1 cell surface bound, or added to detergent-resistant cell membrane extracts (DRM), was in the Gb(3)-containing sucrose gradient 'insoluble' fraction, whereas only 30% (125)I-VT2 was similarly DRM-associated. VT1 bound more efficiently to Gb(3)/cholesterol DRMs generated in vitro. Only VT1 binding was inhibited by high cholesterol/Gb(3) ratios. VT2 competed less effectively for (125)I-VT1/Gb(3) DRM-binding but only VT2-Gb(3)/cholesterol DRM-binding was augmented by sphingomyelin. Differential VT1/VT2 Gb(3) raft-binding may mediate differential cell binding/intracellular trafficking and cytopathology.
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- Patty Tam
- Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Quinn PJ, Wolf C. The liquid-ordered phase in membranes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2008; 1788:33-46. [PMID: 18775411 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2008.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 122] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2008] [Revised: 08/06/2008] [Accepted: 08/07/2008] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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A range of physiological processes has been imputed to lateral domain formation in biological membranes. However the molecular mechanisms of these functions and the details of how domain structures mediate these processes remain largely speculative. That domains exist in biomembranes and can be modeled in relatively simple lipid systems has contributed to our understanding of the principles governing phase behaviour in membranes. A presentation of these principles is the subject of this review. The condensing effect of sterols on phospholipids spread as monomolecular films at the air-water interface is described in terms of the dependence of the effect on sterol and phospholipid structure. The thermodynamics of sphingomyelin-cholesterol interactions are considered from calorimetric, densitometry and equilibrium cholesterol exchange measurements. Biophysical characterisation of the structure of liquid-ordered phase and its relationship with liquid-disordered phase is described from spectroscopic and X-ray scattering studies. Finally, the properties of liquid-ordered phase in the context of membrane physiology and permeability barrier properties are considered.
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- Peter J Quinn
- Department of Biochemistry, King's College London, London, UK.
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Chemin C, Bourgaux C, Péan JM, Pabst G, Wüthrich P, Couvreur P, Ollivon M. Consequences of ions and pH on the supramolecular organization of sphingomyelin and sphingomyelin/cholesterol bilayers. Chem Phys Lipids 2008; 153:119-29. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2008.03.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2007] [Accepted: 03/04/2008] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Interfacial behavior of cholesterol, ergosterol, and lanosterol in mixtures with DPPC and DMPC. Biophys J 2008; 95:2340-55. [PMID: 18515391 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.108.132076] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Binary mixtures of cholesterol, ergosterol, and lanosterol with phosphatidylcholines differing in the length of the saturated acyl chains, viz 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) and 1-palmitoyl-2-myristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC), were analyzed using a Langmuir balance for recording force-area (pi-A) and surface potential-area (psi-A) isotherms. A progressive disappearance of the liquid expanded-liquid condensed transition was observed in mixed monolayers with DPPC after the increase in the content of all three sterols. For fluid DMPC matrix, no modulation of the monolayer phase behavior due to the sterols was evident with the exception of lanosterol, for which a pronounced discontinuity between mole fractions of X = 0.3 and X = 0.75 was discernible in the compression isotherms. Condensing and expanding effects in force-area (pi-A) isotherms due to varying X(sterols) and differences in the monolayer physical state were assessed from the values for the interfacial compression moduli. Surface potential measurements support the notion that cholesterol and ergosterol, but not lanosterol, reduce the penetration of water into the lipid monolayers. Examination of the excess free energy of mixing revealed an enhanced stability of binary monolayers containing cholesterol compared to those with ergosterol or lanosterol; the differences are emphasized in the range of surface pressure values found in natural membranes.
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We review evidence that sterols can form stoichiometric complexes with certain bilayer phospholipids, and sphingomyelin in particular. These complexes appear to be the basis for the formation of condensed and ordered liquid phases, (micro)domains and/or rafts in both artificial and biological membranes. The sterol content of a membrane can exceed the complexing capacity of its phospholipids. The excess, uncomplexed membrane sterol molecules have a relatively high escape tendency, also referred to as fugacity or chemical activity (and, here, simply activity). Cholesterol is also activated when certain membrane intercalating amphipaths displace it from the phospholipid complexes. Active cholesterol projects from the bilayer and is therefore highly susceptible to attack by cholesterol oxidase. Similarly, active cholesterol rapidly exits the plasma membrane to extracellular acceptors such as cyclodextrin and high-density lipoproteins. For the same reason, the pool of cholesterol in the ER (endoplasmic reticulum) increases sharply when cell surface cholesterol is incremented above the physiological set-point; i.e., equivalence with the complexing phospholipids. As a result, the escape tendency of the excess cholesterol not only returns the plasma membrane bilayer to its set-point but also serves as a feedback signal to intracellular homeostatic elements to down-regulate cholesterol accretion.
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Stott BM, Vu MP, McLemore CO, Lund MS, Gibbons E, Brueseke TJ, Wilson-Ashworth HA, Bell JD. Use of fluorescence to determine the effects of cholesterol on lipid behavior in sphingomyelin liposomes and erythrocyte membranes. J Lipid Res 2008; 49:1202-15. [PMID: 18299615 DOI: 10.1194/jlr.m700479-jlr200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The purpose of this study was to generate the equivalent of a cholesterol/temperature phase map for a biological membrane using fluorescence spectroscopy. The pseudo-phase map was created using human erythrocytes treated with various concentrations of methyl-beta-cyclodextrin to remove defined amounts of cholesterol and a trio of fluorescent probes that assess different membrane properties (laurdan, diphenylhexatriene, and merocyanine 540). Parallel experiments with two-photon microscopy suggested that changes in cellular cholesterol content affected the entire membrane rather than being localized to specific macroscopic domains. The various regions of the composite erythrocyte pseudo-phase map were interpreted using analogous data acquired from multilamellar vesicles that served as simplified models of cholesterol-dependent phases. The vesicles consisted of various concentrations of cholesterol (0 to 50 mol%) with either palmitoyl sphingomyelin, 1:1 dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine and dioleoylphosphatidylcholine, or phospholipid mixtures intended to simulate either the inner or outer leaflet of erythrocyte membranes. Four distinguishable regions were observed in sphingomyelin phase maps corresponding to the traditional solid-ordered and liquid-disordered phases and two types of liquid-ordered behavior. Physical properties were less diverse in the mixed phospholipid vesicles, as expected, based on previous studies. Erythrocytes displayed five regions of different combinations of membrane properties along the phase map. Some of the observations identified similarities between the cells and liquid-ordered behavior observed in the various types of liposomes as well as some interesting differences.
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- Brian M Stott
- Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
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Escribá PV, González-Ros JM, Goñi FM, Kinnunen PKJ, Vigh L, Sánchez-Magraner L, Fernández AM, Busquets X, Horváth I, Barceló-Coblijn G. Membranes: a meeting point for lipids, proteins and therapies. J Cell Mol Med 2008; 12:829-75. [PMID: 18266954 PMCID: PMC4401130 DOI: 10.1111/j.1582-4934.2008.00281.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 276] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Membranes constitute a meeting point for lipids and proteins. Not only do they define the entity of cells and cytosolic organelles but they also display a wide variety of important functions previously ascribed to the activity of proteins alone. Indeed, lipids have commonly been considered a mere support for the transient or permanent association of membrane proteins, while acting as a selective cell/organelle barrier. However, mounting evidence demonstrates that lipids themselves regulate the location and activity of many membrane proteins, as well as defining membrane microdomains that serve as spatio-temporal platforms for interacting signalling proteins. Membrane lipids are crucial in the fission and fusion of lipid bilayers and they also act as sensors to control environmental or physiological conditions. Lipids and lipid structures participate directly as messengers or regulators of signal transduction. Moreover, their alteration has been associated with the development of numerous diseases. Proteins can interact with membranes through lipid co-/post-translational modifications, and electrostatic and hydrophobic interactions, van der Waals forces and hydrogen bonding are all involved in the associations among membrane proteins and lipids. The present study reviews these interactions from the molecular and biomedical point of view, and the effects of their modulation on the physiological activity of cells, the aetiology of human diseases and the design of clinical drugs. In fact, the influence of lipids on protein function is reflected in the possibility to use these molecular species as targets for therapies against cancer, obesity, neurodegenerative disorders, cardiovascular pathologies and other diseases, using a new approach called membrane-lipid therapy.
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- Pablo V Escribá
- Laboratory of Molecular Cell Biomedicine, Dept of Biology-IUNICS, University of the Balearic Islands, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
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Alakoskela JM, Sabatini K, Jiang X, Laitala V, Covey DF, Kinnunen PKJ. Enantiospecific interactions between cholesterol and phospholipids. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2008; 24:830-836. [PMID: 18171092 DOI: 10.1021/la702909q] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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The effects of cholesterol on various membrane proteins have received considerable attention. An important question regarding each of these effects is whether the cholesterol exerts its influence by binding directly to membrane proteins or by changing the properties of lipid bilayers. Recently it was suggested that a difference in the effects of natural cholesterol and its enantiomer, ent-cholesterol, would originate from direct binding of cholesterol to a target protein. This strategy rests on the fact that ent-cholesterol has appeared to have effects on lipid films similar to those of cholesterol, yet fluorescence microscopy studies of phospholipid monolayers have provided striking demonstrations of the enantiomer effects, showing opposite chirality of domain shapes for phospholipid enantiomer pairs. We observed the shapes of ordered domains in phospholipid monolayers containing either cholesterol or ent-cholesterol and found that the phospholipid chirality had a great effect on the domain chirality, whereas a minor (quantitative) effect of cholesterol chirality could be observed only in monolayers with racemic dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine. The latter is likely to derive from cholesterol-cholesterol interactions. Accordingly, cholesterol chirality has only a modest effect that is highly likely to require the presence of solidlike domains and, accordingly, is unlikely to play a role in biological membranes.
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- Juha-Matti Alakoskela
- Helsinki Biophysics and Biomembrane Group, Institute of Biomedicine/Biochemistry, P.O. Box 63, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland.
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Chapter 9 On the Nature of Lipid Rafts: Insights from Molecularly Detailed Simulations of Model Biological Membranes Containing Mixtures of Cholesterol and Phospholipids. CURRENT TOPICS IN MEMBRANES 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/s1063-5823(08)00009-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Zheng L, McQuaw CM, Ewing AG, Winograd N. Sphingomyelin/phosphatidylcholine and cholesterol interactions studied by imaging mass spectrometry. J Am Chem Soc 2007; 129:15730-1. [PMID: 18044889 DOI: 10.1021/ja0741675] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Label-free imaging mass spectrometry is utilized the first time to study lipid-lipid interactions in a model membrane system. Ternary lipid mixtures of cholesterol (CH), sphingomyelin (SM), and phosphatidylcholine (PC) on supported Langmuir-Blodgett films are investigated as a mimic of the cellular membrane. The unique chemical specificity and imaging capability allow identification and localization of each lipid molecule in the membranes. The SM and PC in each ternary mixture vary in their acyl chain saturation with both, either, or neither one double bonded at the same position of their acyl chain. For the ternary mixtures with SM and PC both saturated or unsaturated, all the lipids are evenly distributed in the molecule-specific images. However, domain structures were observed for the two mixtures with either SM or PC unsaturated. In both films, the saturated lipid, whether it is SM or PC, colocalized with CH while the unsaturated lipid was excluded from the CH domains. These results strongly suggest that acyl chain saturation, rather than the specific interactions between SM and CH, is the dominating factor for SM colocalization with CH in the raft areas of the cellular membranes.
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- Leiliang Zheng
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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Repáková J, Holopainen JM, Karttunen M, Vattulainen I. Influence of pyrene-labeling on fluid lipid membranes. J Phys Chem B 2007; 110:15403-10. [PMID: 16884261 DOI: 10.1021/jp061300r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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We elucidate the influence of pyrene-labeled phospholipids on the structural properties of a fluid dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine lipid membrane. To this end, we employ extensive atomic-scale molecular dynamics simulations with varying concentrations of pyrene-linked lipids. We find pyrene labeling to perturb the membrane structure significantly in the vicinity of the probe, the correlation length in the bilayer plane being about 1.0-1.5 nm. The local perturbations lead to enhanced ordering and packing of lipid acyl chains located in the vicinity of the probe. Surprisingly, this holds true not only for lipids that reside in the same leaflet as the pyrene-labeled probe but also for lipids in the opposite monolayer. The latter is due to substantial interdigitation of the pyrene moiety into the opposite leaflet, suggesting that occasional excimer formation may take place for probes in different leaflets. As a related issue, we also discuss the location and conformational orientation of the pyrene moieties. In particular, the orientational distribution of pyrene turns out to be more broad and diverse than the distribution of the corresponding acyl tails of nonlabeled lipids.
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- Jarmila Repáková
- Laboratory of Physics and Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland
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McQuaw CM, Zheng L, Ewing AG, Winograd N. Localization of sphingomyelin in cholesterol domains by imaging mass spectrometry. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2007; 23:5645-50. [PMID: 17417886 PMCID: PMC2025687 DOI: 10.1021/la063251f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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The location of each lipid in a palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine/18:0 sphingomyelin/cholesterol monolayer system is laterally resolved using imaging time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) without the necessity of adding fluorescent labels. This system of coexisting immiscible liquid phases shows cholesterol domains with sizes and shapes comparable to those in the fluorescence microscopy literature. The results show that SM localizes with cholesterol and that palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine is excluded. Moreover, the segregation is not complete, and there is a small amount of both phospholipids distributed throughout.
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Neurotrophin stimulation of tropomyosin-related kinase (Trk) and p75 receptors influences cellular processes such as proliferation, growth, differentiation, and other cell-specific functions, as well as regeneration. In contrast to Trk receptors, which have a well-defined trophic role, p75 has activities ranging from trophism to apoptosis. Continued neurotrophin stimulation of differentiating neurons transforms the initially trophic character of p75 signaling into negative growth control and overstimulation leads to apoptosis. This function shift reflects the signaling effects of ceramide that is generated upon stimulation of p75. The use of ceramide signaling by p75 may provide a key to understanding the cell-biological role of p75. The review presents arguments that the control of cell shape formation and cell selection can serve as an organizing principle of p75 signaling. Concurrent stimulation by neurotrophins of p75 and Trk receptors constitutes a dual growth control with antagonistic and synergistic elements aimed at optimal morphological and functional integration of cells and cell populations into their context.
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- A Blöchl
- Biochemie II, Fakultät Chemie und Biochemie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
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Ali MR, Cheng KH, Huang J. Assess the nature of cholesterol-lipid interactions through the chemical potential of cholesterol in phosphatidylcholine bilayers. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007; 104:5372-7. [PMID: 17372226 PMCID: PMC1838487 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0611450104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 118] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Cholesterol plays a vital role in determining the physiochemical properties of cell membranes. However, the detailed nature of cholesterol-lipid interactions is a subject of ongoing debate. Existing conceptual models, including the Condensed Complex Model, the Superlattice Model, and the Umbrella Model, identify different molecular mechanisms as the key to cholesterol-lipid interactions. In this work, the compositional dependence of the chemical potential of cholesterol in cholesterol/phosphatidylcholine mixtures was systematically measured at high resolution at 37 degrees C by using an improved cholesterol oxidase (COD) activity assay. The chemical potential of cholesterol was found to be much higher in di18:1-PC bilayers than in di16:0-PC bilayers, indicating a more favorable interaction between cholesterol and saturated chains. More significantly, in 16:0,18:1-PC and di18:1-PC bilayers, the COD initial-reaction rate displays a series of distinct jumps near the cholesterol mole fractions (chi(C)) of 0.15, 0.25, 0.40, 0.50, and 0.57 and a peak at the cholesterol maximum solubility limit of 0.67. These jumps have been identified as the thermodynamic signatures of stable cholesterol regular distributions. In contrast, no such jumps were evident in di16:0-PC bilayers below chi(C) of 0.57. The observed chemical potential profile is in excellent agreement with previous Monte Carlo simulations based on the Umbrella Model but not with the predictions from the other models. The data further indicate that the cholesterol regular distribution domains (superlattices) are not the hypothesized condensed complexes. Those complexes were mainly implicated from studies on lipid monolayer that may not be relevant to the lipid bilayer in cell membranes.
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- Md Rejwan Ali
- Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409
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- Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409
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- Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409
- *To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail:
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Niemelä PS, Ollila S, Hyvönen MT, Karttunen M, Vattulainen I. Assessing the nature of lipid raft membranes. PLoS Comput Biol 2007; 3:e34. [PMID: 17319738 PMCID: PMC1808021 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.0030034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 231] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2006] [Accepted: 01/05/2007] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The paradigm of biological membranes has recently gone through a major update. Instead of being fluid and homogeneous, recent studies suggest that membranes are characterized by transient domains with varying fluidity. In particular, a number of experimental studies have revealed the existence of highly ordered lateral domains rich in sphingomyelin and cholesterol (CHOL). These domains, called functional lipid rafts, have been suggested to take part in a variety of dynamic cellular processes such as membrane trafficking, signal transduction, and regulation of the activity of membrane proteins. However, despite the proposed importance of these domains, their properties, and even the precise nature of the lipid phases, have remained open issues mainly because the associated short time and length scales have posed a major challenge to experiments. In this work, we employ extensive atom-scale simulations to elucidate the properties of ternary raft mixtures with CHOL, palmitoylsphingomyelin (PSM), and palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine. We simulate two bilayers of 1,024 lipids for 100 ns in the liquid-ordered phase and one system of the same size in the liquid-disordered phase. The studies provide evidence that the presence of PSM and CHOL in raft-like membranes leads to strongly packed and rigid bilayers. We also find that the simulated raft bilayers are characterized by nanoscale lateral heterogeneity, though the slow lateral diffusion renders the interpretation of the observed lateral heterogeneity more difficult. The findings reveal aspects of the role of favored (specific) lipid-lipid interactions within rafts and clarify the prominent role of CHOL in altering the properties of the membrane locally in its neighborhood. Also, we show that the presence of PSM and CHOL in rafts leads to intriguing lateral pressure profiles that are distinctly different from corresponding profiles in nonraft-like membranes. The results propose that the functioning of certain classes of membrane proteins is regulated by changes in the lateral pressure profile, which can be altered by a change in lipid content.
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- Perttu S Niemelä
- Laboratory of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland.
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Pandit SA, Scott HL. Atomistic and coarse-grained computer simulations of raft-like lipid mixtures. Methods Mol Biol 2007; 398:283-302. [PMID: 18214387 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-513-8_19] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Computer modeling can provide insights into the existence, structure, size, and thermodynamic stability of localized raft-like regions in membranes. However, the challenges in the construction and simulation of accurate models of heterogeneous membranes are great. The primary obstacle in modeling the lateral organization within a membrane is the relatively slow lateral diffusion rate for lipid molecules. Microsecond or longer time-scales are needed to fully model the formation and stability of a raft in a membra ne. Atomistic simulations currently are not able to reach this scale, but they do provide quantitative information on the intermolecular forces and correlations that are involved in lateral organization. In this chapter, the steps needed to carry out and analyze atomistic simulations of hydrated lipid bilayers having heterogeneous composition are outlined. It is then shown how the data from a molecular dynamics simulation can be used to construct a coarse-grained model for the heterogeneous bilayer that can predict the lateral organization and stability of rafts at up to millisecond time-scales.
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- Sagar A Pandit
- Department of Biological, Chemical, and Physical Sciences, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago 60616, USA
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Bhide SY, Zhang Z, Berkowitz ML. Molecular dynamics simulations of SOPS and sphingomyelin bilayers containing cholesterol. Biophys J 2006; 92:1284-95. [PMID: 17142272 PMCID: PMC1783896 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.096214] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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We performed a molecular dynamics simulation of an asymmetric bilayer that contained different lipid mixtures in its outer and inner leaflets. The outer leaflet contained a mixture of sphingomyelin (SM) with cholesterol and the inner leaflet a mixture of stearoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidylserine (SOPS) with cholesterol. For comparison purposes, we also performed two simulations on symmetric bilayers: the first simulation was performed on a bilayer containing a binary mixture of SOPS with cholesterol; the second contained a mixture of SM with cholesterol. We studied the hydrogen-bonding network of the bilayers in our simulations and the difference in the network properties in the monolayers either with SM or SOPS. We observed that in the asymmetric bilayer the properties of monolayers were the same as in the corresponding monolayers in the symmetric bilayers.
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- Shreyas Y Bhide
- Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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Aittoniemi J, Niemelä PS, Hyvönen MT, Karttunen M, Vattulainen I. Insight into the putative specific interactions between cholesterol, sphingomyelin, and palmitoyl-oleoyl phosphatidylcholine. Biophys J 2006; 92:1125-37. [PMID: 17114220 PMCID: PMC1783890 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.088427] [Citation(s) in RCA: 116] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The effects of cholesterol (Chol) on phospholipid bilayers include ordering of the fatty acyl chains, condensing of the lipids in the bilayer plane, and promotion of the liquid-ordered phase. These effects depend on the type of phospholipids in the bilayer and are determined by the nature of the underlying molecular interactions. As for Chol, it has been shown to interact more favorably with sphingomyelin than with most phosphatidylcholines, which in given circumstances leads to formation of lateral domains. However, the exact origin and nature of Chol-phospholipid interactions have recently been subjects of speculation. We examine interactions between Chol, palmitoylsphingomyelin (PSM) and palmitoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine (POPC) in hydrated lipid bilayers by extensive atom-scale molecular dynamics simulations. We employ a tailored lipid configuration: Individual PSM and Chol monomers, as well as PSM-Chol dimers, are embedded in a POPC lipid bilayer in the liquid crystalline phase. Such a setup allows direct comparison of dimeric and monomeric PSMs and Chol, which ultimately shows how the small differences in PSM and POPC structure can lead to profoundly different interactions with Chol. Our analysis shows that direct hydrogen bonding between PSM and Chol does not provide an adequate explanation for their putative specific interaction. Rather, a combination of charge-pairing, hydrophobic, and van der Waals interactions leads to a lower tilt in PSM neighboring Chol than in Chol with only POPC neighbors. This implies improved Chol-induced ordering of PSM's chains over POPC's chains. These findings are discussed in the context of the hydrophobic mismatch concept suggested recently.
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- Jussi Aittoniemi
- Laboratory of Physics and Helsinki Institute of Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland
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Róg T, Pasenkiewicz-Gierula M. Cholesterol-sphingomyelin interactions: a molecular dynamics simulation study. Biophys J 2006; 91:3756-67. [PMID: 16920840 PMCID: PMC1630474 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.080887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2006] [Accepted: 08/03/2006] [Indexed: 01/22/2023] Open
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Stearoylsphingomyelin (SSM) bilayers containing 0, 22, and 50 mol % cholesterol (Chol) and a pentadecanoyl-stearoylphosphatidylcholine (15SPC) bilayer containing 22 mol % Chol were molecular dynamics simulated at two temperatures (37 degrees C and 60 degrees C). 15SPC is the best PC equivalent of SSM. The Chol effect on the SSM bilayer differs significantly from that on the 15SPC bilayer. At the same temperature and Chol content, H-bonding of Chol with SSM is more extensive than with 15SPC. SSM-Chol H-bonding anchors the OH group of Chol in the lower regions of the SSM-Chol bilayer interface. Such a location strengthens the influence of Chol on the SSM chains. In effect, the phase of the SSM-Chol bilayer containing 22 mol % Chol at 37 degrees C is shifted from the gel to the liquid-ordered phase, and the bilayer displays similar properties below and above the main phase-transition temperature for a pure SSM bilayer of approximately 45 degrees C. In contrast, due to a higher location, Chol is not able to change the phase of the 15SPC-Chol bilayer, which at 37 degrees C remains in the gel phase. Chol affects both the core and interface of the SSM bilayer. With increasing Chol content, the order of SSM chains and hydration of SSM headgroups increase, whereas polar interactions between lipids decrease.
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- Tomasz Róg
- Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biotechnology, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
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Lindén MV, Holopainen JM, Laukkanen A, Riekkola ML, Wiedmer SK. Cholesterol-rich membrane coatings for interaction studies in capillary electrophoresis: Application to red blood cell lipid extracts. Electrophoresis 2006; 27:3988-98. [PMID: 16983633 DOI: 10.1002/elps.200600002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The purpose was to develop a stable biological membrane coating for CE useful for membrane interaction studies. The effect of cholesterol (chol) on the stability of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and sphingomyelin (SM) coatings was studied. In addition, a fused-silica capillary for CE was coated with human red blood cell (RBC) ghost lipids. Liposomes prepared of DPPC/SM with and without chol or RBC ghost lipids were flushed through the capillary and the stability of the coating was measured electrophoretically. Similar mixtures of DPPC/SM with and without chol were further studied by differential scanning calorimetry. The presence of phosphatidylcholine as a basic component in the coating solution of DPPC/SM/chol was found to be essential to achieve a good and stable coating. The results also confirmed the stability of coatings obtained with solutions of DPPC with 0-30 mol% of chol and SM in different ratios, which more closely resemble natural membranes. Finally, the electrophoretic measurements revealed that a stable coating is formed when capillaries are coated with liposomes of RBC ghost lipids.
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- Maria V Lindén
- Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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