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Enzyme activity of thiophene-fluorene based-copolymer blended with urease in thin films. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2020.125139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Hoareau E, Belley N, Klinker K, Desbat B, Boisselier É. Characterization of neurocalcin delta membrane binding by biophysical methods. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2019; 174:291-299. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2018.11.017] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2018] [Revised: 11/02/2018] [Accepted: 11/07/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Boisselier É, Demers É, Cantin L, Salesse C. How to gather useful and valuable information from protein binding measurements using Langmuir lipid monolayers. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2017; 243:60-76. [PMID: 28372794 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2017.03.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2016] [Revised: 03/14/2017] [Accepted: 03/15/2017] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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This review presents data on the influence of various experimental parameters on the binding of proteins onto Langmuir lipid monolayers. The users of the Langmuir methodology are often unaware of the importance of choosing appropriate experimental conditions to validate the data acquired with this method. The protein Retinitis pigmentosa 2 (RP2) has been used throughout this review to illustrate the influence of these experimental parameters on the data gathered with Langmuir monolayers. The methods detailed in this review include the determination of protein binding parameters from the measurement of adsorption isotherms, infrared spectra of the protein in solution and in monolayers, ellipsometric isotherms and fluorescence micrographs.
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- Élodie Boisselier
- CUO-Recherche, Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec and Département d'ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine, and Regroupement stratégique PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada.
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- CUO-Recherche, Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec and Département d'ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine, and Regroupement stratégique PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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- CUO-Recherche, Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec and Département d'ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine, and Regroupement stratégique PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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- CUO-Recherche, Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec and Département d'ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine, and Regroupement stratégique PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada.
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Demers É, Boisselier É, Horchani H, Blaudez D, Calvez P, Cantin L, Belley N, Champagne S, Desbat B, Salesse C. Lipid Selectivity, Orientation, and Extent of Membrane Binding of Nonacylated RP2. Biochemistry 2015; 54:2560-70. [DOI: 10.1021/bi501517r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Éric Demers
- CUO-Recherche,
Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec
and Département d’ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine,
and Regroupement stratégique PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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- CUO-Recherche,
Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec
and Département d’ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine,
and Regroupement stratégique PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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- CUO-Recherche,
Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec
and Département d’ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine,
and Regroupement stratégique PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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- CBMN-UMR
5248 CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, IPB, Allée Geoffroy
Saint Hilaire, 33600 Pessac, France
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- CUO-Recherche,
Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec
and Département d’ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine,
and Regroupement stratégique PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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- CUO-Recherche,
Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec
and Département d’ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine,
and Regroupement stratégique PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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- CUO-Recherche,
Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec
and Département d’ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine,
and Regroupement stratégique PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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- CUO-Recherche,
Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec
and Département d’ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine,
and Regroupement stratégique PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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- CBMN-UMR
5248 CNRS, Université de Bordeaux, IPB, Allée Geoffroy
Saint Hilaire, 33600 Pessac, France
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- CUO-Recherche,
Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec
and Département d’ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine,
and Regroupement stratégique PROTEO, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada
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Bussières S, Cantin L, Desbat B, Salesse C. Binding of a truncated form of lecithin:retinol acyltransferase and its N- and C-terminal peptides to lipid monolayers. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2012; 28:3516-3523. [PMID: 22260449 DOI: 10.1021/la203896n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Lecithin:retinol acyltransferase (LRAT) is a 230 amino acid membrane-associated protein which catalyzes the esterification of all-trans-retinol into all-trans-retinyl ester. A truncated form of LRAT (tLRAT), which contains the residues required for catalysis but which is lacking the N- and C-terminal hydrophobic segments, was produced to study its membrane binding properties. Measurements of the maximum insertion pressure of tLRAT, which is higher than the estimated lateral pressure of membranes, and the positive synergy factor a argue in favor of a strong binding of tLRAT to phospholipid monolayers. Moreover, the binding, secondary structure and orientation of the peptides corresponding to its N- and C-terminal hydrophobic segments of LRAT have been studied by circular dichroism and polarization-modulation infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy in monolayers. The results show that these peptides spontaneously bind to lipid monolayers and adopt an α-helical secondary structure. On the basis of these data, a new membrane topology model of LRAT is proposed where its N- and C-terminal segments allow to anchor this protein to the lipid bilayer.
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- Sylvain Bussières
- LOEX/CUO-recherche, Centre hospitalier affilié universitaire de Québec, Hôpital du Saint-Sacrement, 1050 Chemin Ste-Foy, Québec (Québec), Canada
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Desfougères Y, Saint-Jalmes A, Salonen A, Vié V, Beaufils S, Pezennec S, Desbat B, Lechevalier V, Nau F. Strong improvement of interfacial properties can result from slight structural modifications of proteins: the case of native and dry-heated lysozyme. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2011; 27:14947-14957. [PMID: 22040020 DOI: 10.1021/la203485y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Identification of the key physicochemical parameters of proteins that determine their interfacial properties is still incomplete and represents a real stake challenge, especially for food proteins. Many studies have thus consisted in comparing the interfacial behavior of different proteins, but it is difficult to draw clear conclusions when the molecules are completely different on several levels. Here the adsorption process of a model protein, the hen egg-white lysozyme, and the same protein that underwent a thermal treatment in the dry state, was characterized. The consequences of this treatment have been previously studied: net charge and hydrophobicity increase and lesser protein stability, but no secondary and tertiary structure modification (Desfougères, Y.; Jardin, J.; Lechevalier, V.; Pezennec, S.; Nau, F. Biomacromolecules 2011, 12, 156-166). The present study shows that these slight modifications dramatically increase the interfacial properties of the protein, since the adsorption to the air-water interface is much faster and more efficient (higher surface pressure). Moreover, a thick and strongly viscoelastic multilayer film is created, while native lysozyme adsorbs in a fragile monolayer film. Another striking result is that completely different behaviors were observed between two molecular species, i.e., native and native-like lysozyme, even though these species could not be distinguished by usual spectroscopic methods. This suggests that the air-water interface could be considered as a useful tool to reveal very subtle differences between protein molecules.
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Mascetti J, Castano S, Cavagnat D, Desbat B. Organization of beta-cyclodextrin under pure cholesterol, DMPC, or DMPG and mixed cholesterol/phospholipid monolayers. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2008; 24:9616-9622. [PMID: 18672913 DOI: 10.1021/la8004294] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The complexation of beta-cyclodextrin with monolayers of cholesterol, DMPC, DMPG, and mixtures of those lipids has been studied using Brewster microscopy, PMIRRAS, and ab initio calculations. An oriented channel-like structure of beta-cyclodextrin, perpendicular to the air/water interface, was observed when some cholesterol molecules were present at the interface. This channel structure formation is the first step in the cholesterol dissolution in the subphase. With pure DMPC and DMPG monolayers, weaker, less organized complexes are formed, but they disappear almost completely at high surface pressure, and only a small amount of phospholipid is dissolved in the subphase.
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- J Mascetti
- ISM, Institut des Sciences Moleculaires (UMR 5255 CNRS), Universite Bordeaux 1, 351, cours de la Liberation, 33405 Talence Cedex, France
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Phospholipid monolayer hydrolysis by cytosolic phospholipase A2 gamma and lecithin retinol acyl transferase. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2008. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2007.11.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Zamlynny V, Lipkowski J. Quantitative SNIFTIRS and PM IRRAS of Organic Molecules at Electrode Surfaces. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2008. [DOI: 10.1002/9783527616817.ch9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Bussières S, Buffeteau T, Desbat B, Breton R, Salesse C. Secondary structure of a truncated form of lecithin retinol acyltransferase in solution and evidence for its binding and hydrolytic action in monolayers. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2008; 1778:1324-34. [PMID: 18284914 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2008.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2007] [Revised: 01/24/2008] [Accepted: 01/25/2008] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Lecithin retinol acyltransferase (LRAT) is a 230 amino acids membrane-associated protein which catalyzes the esterification of all-trans-retinol into all-trans-retinyl ester. The enzymatic activity of a truncated form of LRAT (tLRAT) which contains the residues required for catalysis but which is lacking N- and C-terminal hydrophobic segments has been shown to depend on the detergent used for its solubilization. Moreover, it is unknown whether tLRAT can bind membranes in the absence of these hydrophobic segments. The present study has allowed to measure the membrane binding and hydrolytic action of tLRAT in lipid monolayers by use of polarization modulation infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy and Brewster angle microscopy. Moreover, the proportion of the secondary structure components of tLRAT was determined in three different detergents by infrared absorption spectroscopy, vibrational circular dichroism and electronic circular dichroism which allowed to explain its detergent dependent activity. In addition, the secondary structure of tLRAT in the absence of detergent was very similar to that in Triton X-100 thus suggesting that, compared to the other detergents assayed, the secondary structure of this protein is very little perturbed by this detergent.
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- Sylvain Bussières
- Unité de recherche en ophtalmologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Pavillon CHUL, Département d'ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, 2705 Blvd. Laurier, Ste-Foy, Québec, Canada G1V 4G2
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Desmeules P, Penney SE, Desbat B, Salesse C. Determination of the contribution of the myristoyl group and hydrophobic amino acids of recoverin on its dynamics of binding to lipid monolayers. Biophys J 2007; 93:2069-82. [PMID: 17526567 PMCID: PMC1959526 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.103481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2006] [Accepted: 05/17/2007] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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It has been postulated that myristoylation of peripheral proteins would facilitate their binding to membranes. However, the exact involvement of this lipid modification in membrane binding is still a matter of debate. Proteins containing a Ca(2+)-myristoyl switch where the extrusion of their myristoyl group is dependent on calcium binding is best illustrated by the Ca(2+)-binding recoverin, which is present in retinal rod cells. The parameters responsible for the modulation of the membrane binding of recoverin are still largely unknown. This study was thus performed to determine the involvement of different parameters on recoverin membrane binding. We have used surface pressure measurements and PM-IRRAS spectroscopy to monitor the adsorption of myristoylated and nonmyristoylated recoverin onto phospholipid monolayers in the presence and absence of calcium. The adsorption curves have shown that the myristoyl group and hydrophobic residues of myristoylated recoverin strongly accelerate membrane binding in the presence of calcium. In the case of nonmyristoylated recoverin in the presence of calcium, hydrophobic residues alone are responsible for its much faster monolayer binding than myristoylated and nonmyristoylated recoverin in the absence of calcium. The infrared spectra revealed that myristoylated and nonmyristoylated recoverin behave very different upon adsorption onto phospholipid monolayers. Indeed, PM-IRRAS spectra indicated that the myristoyl group allows a proper orientation and organization as well as faster and stronger binding of myristoylated recoverin to lipid monolayers compared to nonmyristoylated recoverin. Simulations of the spectra have allowed us to postulate that nonmyristoylated recoverin changes conformation and becomes hydrated at large extents of adsorption as well as to estimate the orientation of myristoylated recoverin with respect to the monolayer plane. In addition, adsorption measurements and electrophoresis of trypsin-treated myristoylated recoverin in the presence of zinc or calcium demonstrated that recoverin has a different conformation but a similar extent of monolayer binding in the presence of such ions.
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- Philippe Desmeules
- Unité de Recherche en Opthalmologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec, Pavillon CHUL, and Département d'Opthalmologie, Faculté de Médecine, Université Laval, Québec, Canada
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Boucher J, Trudel E, Méthot M, Desmeules P, Salesse C. Organization, structure and activity of proteins in monolayers. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2007; 58:73-90. [PMID: 17509839 DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfb.2007.03.019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2007] [Revised: 03/24/2007] [Accepted: 03/26/2007] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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Many different processes take place at the cell membrane interface. Indeed, for instance, ligands bind membrane proteins which in turn activate peripheral membrane proteins, some of which are enzymes whose action is also located at the membrane interface. Native cell membranes are difficult to use to gain information on the activity of individual proteins at the membrane interface because of the large number of different proteins involved in membranous processes. Model membrane systems, such as monolayers at the air-water interface, have thus been extensively used during the last 50 years to reconstitute proteins and to gain information on their organization, structure and activity in membranes. In the present paper, we review the recent work we have performed with membrane and peripheral proteins as well as enzymes in monolayers at the air-water interface. We show that the structure and orientation of gramicidin has been determined by combining different methods. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the secondary structure of rhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin is indistinguishable from that in native membranes when appropriate conditions are used. We also show that the kinetics and extent of monolayer binding of myristoylated recoverin is much faster than that of the nonmyristoylated form and that this binding is highly favored by the presence polyunsaturated phospholipids. Moreover, we show that the use of fragments of RPE65 allow determine which region of this protein is most likely involved in membrane binding. Monomolecular films were also used to further understand the hydrolysis of organized phospholipids by phospholipases A2 and C.
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- Julie Boucher
- Unité de recherche en ophtalmologie, Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Québec and Département d'Ophtalmologie, Faculté de médecine, Université Laval, Québec, Que. G1V 4G2, Canada
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Baszkin A. Molecular recognition on the supported and on the air/water interface-spread protein monolayers. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2006; 128-130:111-20. [PMID: 17196538 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2006.11.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Targeting of proteins at interfaces via affinity ligands or specific antibodies is important for the understanding of protein functioning in biological membranes. This review brings together a great number of research works accomplished in this field in the past decade by a variety of analytical methods. It highlights two simple in situ techniques of monitoring molecular recognition processes at interfaces recently developed in the author's laboratory. The first of these techniques is based on the measurements of surface pressure increments of a protein monolayer spread at the air/water interface at a constant area resulting from the interaction with its specific ligands injected into the aqueous subphase beneath the preformed protein monolayer. The second technique takes advantage of the feature of [(14)C]-labeled proteins that enable in situ measurements of surface density changes of adsorbed protein molecules on a solid support resulting from the interaction with its specific antibody.
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- Adam Baszkin
- Physico-Chimie des Surfaces, UMR CNRS 8612, Université Paris-Sud, 92296 Châtenay-Melabry Cedex, France.
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Meister A, Nicolini C, Waldmann H, Kuhlmann J, Kerth A, Winter R, Blume A. Insertion of lipidated Ras proteins into lipid monolayers studied by infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy (IRRAS). Biophys J 2006; 91:1388-401. [PMID: 16731561 PMCID: PMC1518660 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.106.084624] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2006] [Accepted: 05/15/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Ras proteins have to be associated with the inner leaflet of the plasma membrane to perform their signaling functions. This membrane targeting and binding is controlled by post-translational covalent attachment of farnesyl and palmitoyl chains to cysteines in the membrane anchor region of the N- and H-Ras isoforms. Two N-Ras lipoproteins were investigated, namely a farnesylated and hexadecylated protein, presenting the natural hydrophobic modifications and a doubly hexadecylated construct, respectively. The proteins are surface active and form a Gibbs monolayer at the air-D2O interface. The contours of the amide-I bands were analyzed using infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy (IRRAS). Langmuir monolayers of a mixture of POPC, brain sphingomyelin, and cholesterol were used as half of a model biomembrane to study the insertion of these N-Ras proteins. They insert with their hydrophobic anchors into lipid monolayers but at higher surface pressures (30 mN/m); the farnesylated and hexadecylated protein desorbs completely from the monolayer, whereas the doubly hexadecylated protein remains incorporated. During the insertion process, changes in the orientation of the protein secondary structure were detected by comparison with simulated IRRA spectra, based on the information on the relative orientation of the secondary structure elements from the protein crystal structure data.
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- Annette Meister
- Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
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Dluhy R, Shanmukh S, Morita SI. The application of two-dimensional correlation spectroscopy to surface and interfacial analysis. SURF INTERFACE ANAL 2006. [DOI: 10.1002/sia.2358] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Méthot M, Desmeules P, Vaknin D, Boucher F, Salesse C. In situ characterization of functional purple membrane monolayers at the air-water interface. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2004; 20:934-940. [PMID: 15773126 DOI: 10.1021/la0356147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The purple membrane (PM) of Halobacterium salinarum contains a single type of protein, bacterio-rhodopsin (bR), which is a member of the seven alpha-helices transmembrane protein family. This protein is a photoactive proton pump, translocating one proton from the cytoplasmic to the extracellular side of the PM per photon absorbed. bR is found in trimers in PM, where they are assembled in a two-dimensional hexagonal lattice. We show herein that stable and functional films can be built in monolayers at the air-water interface by spreading aqueous suspensions of purified and native PM patches. In situ spectroscopic measurements at the air-water interface indicate that bR remains photoactive in this environment. Physical parameters of these PM films, such as protein molecular area, irreversible in-plane aggregation, z-axis orientation, film thickness, and surface roughness, were determined from surface pressure and surface potential-area isotherms, fluorescence spectroscopy, and X-ray reflectivity at the air-water interface. We find that PM do form organized monolayers of membranes, with an optimal packing density at a surface pressure of approximately 20 mN/m, although no preferential vectorial alignment, with respect to the plane normal to the membrane, can be detected from fluorescence quenching experiments.
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- Mario Méthot
- Unité de recherche en ophthalmologie, Centre de recherche du CHUQ, Université Laval, Quebec, Quebec, Canada GIV 4G2
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Lavoie H, Blaudez D, Vaknin D, Desbat B, Ocko BM, Salesse C. Spectroscopic [correction of eSpectroscopic] and structural properties of valine gramicidin A in monolayers at the air-water interface. Biophys J 2002; 83:3558-69. [PMID: 12496123 PMCID: PMC1302431 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(02)75356-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
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Monomolecular films of valine gramicidin A (VGA) were investigated in situ at the air-water interface by x-ray reflectivity and x-ray grazing incidence diffraction as well as polarization modulation infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy (PM-IRRAS). These techniques were combined to obtain information on the secondary structure and the orientation of VGA and to characterize the shoulder observed in its pi-A isotherm. The thickness of the film was obtained by x-ray reflectivity, and the secondary structure of VGA was monitored using the frequency position of the amide I band. The PM-IRRAS spectra were compared with the simulated ones to identify the conformation adopted by VGA in monolayer. At large molecular area, VGA shows a disordered secondary structure, whereas at smaller molecular areas, VGA adopts an anti-parallel double-strand intertwined beta(5.6) helical conformation with 30 degrees orientation with respect to the normal with a thickness of 25 A. The interface between bulk water and the VGA monolayer was investigated by x-ray reflectivity as well as by comparing the experimental and the simulated PM-IRRAS spectra on D(2)O and H(2)O, which suggested the presence of oriented water molecules between the bulk and the monolayer.
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- Hugo Lavoie
- Département de Chimie-Biologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec G9A 5H7, Canada
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de Jongh HHJ, Meinders MBJ. Proteins at air-water interfaces studied using external reflection circular dichroism. SPECTROCHIMICA ACTA. PART A, MOLECULAR AND BIOMOLECULAR SPECTROSCOPY 2002; 58:3197-3204. [PMID: 12511104 DOI: 10.1016/s1386-1425(02)00099-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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In this report we describe the first attempts to record external reflection circular dichroism (ERCD) spectra of beta-lactoglobulin solutions. It is shown that the accumulated proteins at and near the air-water interface can be detected using ERCD and that the signals obtained contain information on the conformational properties and concentration of the proteins residing at the interface. The local protein concentration and its conformation are in full agreement with previous observations using external reflection infrared spectroscopy. The ERCD signals are dominated by linear dichroism (LD) due to non-ideal behavior of the instrumental optics, but can be explained for using the theoretical description of chiral reflection. This allows the analysis of ERCD spectra of protein solutions. The measured ERCD signals are described accurately in the region between 190 and 220 nm, but poor resemblance is obtained at higher wavelengths. We are however confident that improvement of experimental conditions and theoretical description will allow that in the near future, external reflection circular dichroism (CD) can be a valuable tool that complements the application of external reflection infrared spectroscopy to study interfacial systems.
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- Harmen H J de Jongh
- Wageningen Centre for Food Sciences, Department of Biopolymer Stability and Functionality, Diedenweg 20, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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Lavoie H, Desbat B, Vaknin D, Salesse C. Structure of rhodopsin in monolayers at the air-water interface: a PM-IRRAS and X-ray reflectivity study. Biochemistry 2002; 41:13424-34. [PMID: 12416988 DOI: 10.1021/bi026004t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Monomolecular films of the membrane protein rhodopsin have been investigated in situ at the air-water interface by polarization modulation infrared reflection absorption spectroscopy (PM-IRRAS) and X-ray reflectivity in order to find conditions that retain the protein secondary structure. The spreading of rhodopsin at 0 or 5 mN m(-1) followed by a 30 min incubation time at 21 degrees C resulted in the unfolding of rhodopsin, as evidenced from the large increase of its molecular area, its small monolayer thickness, and the extensive formation of beta-sheets at the expense of the alpha-helices originally present in rhodopsin. In contrast, when spreading is performed at 5 or 10 mN m(-1) followed by an immediate compression at, respectively, 4 or 21 degrees C, the secondary structure of rhodopsin is retained, and the thickness of these films is in good agreement with the size of rhodopsin determined from its crystal structure. The amide I/amide II ratio also allowed to determine that the orientation of rhodopsin only slightly changes with surface pressure and it remains almost unchanged when the film is maintained at 20 mN m(-1) for 120 min at 4 degrees C. In addition, the PM-IRRAS spectra of rod outer segment disk membranes in monolayers suggest that rhodopsin also retained its secondary structure in these films.
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- Hugo Lavoie
- Département de Chimie-Biologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Québec, Canada
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Ronzon F, Desbat B, Buffeteau T, Mingotaud C, Chauvet JP, Roux B. Structure and Orientation of a Glycosylphosphatidyl Inositol Anchored Protein at the Air/Water Interface. J Phys Chem B 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/jp0119983] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Frédéric Ronzon
- Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Biologique, UMR 5013, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, 43 boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire, UMR 5803, Université de Bordeaux I, 3340 Talence, France, Centre de recherche Paul Pascal, Avenue Albert Schweitzer, 33600 Pessac, France, and IFoS, Équipe Bioingénierie et Reconnaissance Génétique, UMR 5621, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, 36 avenue Guy de Collongue, 69131 Ecully Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Biologique, UMR 5013, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, 43 boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire, UMR 5803, Université de Bordeaux I, 3340 Talence, France, Centre de recherche Paul Pascal, Avenue Albert Schweitzer, 33600 Pessac, France, and IFoS, Équipe Bioingénierie et Reconnaissance Génétique, UMR 5621, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, 36 avenue Guy de Collongue, 69131 Ecully Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Biologique, UMR 5013, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, 43 boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire, UMR 5803, Université de Bordeaux I, 3340 Talence, France, Centre de recherche Paul Pascal, Avenue Albert Schweitzer, 33600 Pessac, France, and IFoS, Équipe Bioingénierie et Reconnaissance Génétique, UMR 5621, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, 36 avenue Guy de Collongue, 69131 Ecully Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Biologique, UMR 5013, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, 43 boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire, UMR 5803, Université de Bordeaux I, 3340 Talence, France, Centre de recherche Paul Pascal, Avenue Albert Schweitzer, 33600 Pessac, France, and IFoS, Équipe Bioingénierie et Reconnaissance Génétique, UMR 5621, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, 36 avenue Guy de Collongue, 69131 Ecully Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Biologique, UMR 5013, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, 43 boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire, UMR 5803, Université de Bordeaux I, 3340 Talence, France, Centre de recherche Paul Pascal, Avenue Albert Schweitzer, 33600 Pessac, France, and IFoS, Équipe Bioingénierie et Reconnaissance Génétique, UMR 5621, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, 36 avenue Guy de Collongue, 69131 Ecully Cedex, France
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- Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Biologique, UMR 5013, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, 43 boulevard du 11 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, France, Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire, UMR 5803, Université de Bordeaux I, 3340 Talence, France, Centre de recherche Paul Pascal, Avenue Albert Schweitzer, 33600 Pessac, France, and IFoS, Équipe Bioingénierie et Reconnaissance Génétique, UMR 5621, Ecole Centrale de Lyon, 36 avenue Guy de Collongue, 69131 Ecully Cedex, France
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Ronzon F, Desbat B, Chauvet JP, Roux B. Behavior of a GPI-anchored protein in phospholipid monolayers at the air-water interface. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2002; 1560:1-13. [PMID: 11958771 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2736(01)00405-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The interaction between alkaline phosphatase (AP), a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored protein (AP-GPI), and phospholipids was monitored using Langmuir isotherms and PM-IRRAS spectroscopy. AP-GPI was injected under C16 phospholipid monolayers with either a neutral polar head (1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine monohydrate (DPPC)) or an anionic polar head (1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho-L-serine (DPPS)). The increase in molecular area due to the injection of protein depended on the surface pressure and the type of phospholipid. At all surface pressures, it was highest in the case of DPPS monolayers. The surface elasticity coefficient E, determined from the pi-A diagrams, allowed to deduct that the AP-GPI-phospholipid mixtures presented a molecular arrangement less condensed than the corresponding pure phospholipid films. PM-IRRAS spectra suggested different protein-lipid interactions as a function of the nature of the lipids. AP-GPI modified the organization of the DPPS deuterated chains whereas AP-GPI affected only the polar group of DPPC at low surface pressure (8 mN/m). Different protein hydration layers between the DPPC and DPPS monolayers were suggested to explain these results. PM-IRRAS spectra of AP-GPI in the presence of lipids showed a shape similar to those collected for pure AP-GPI, indicating a similar orientation of AP-GPI in the presence or absence of phospholipids, where the active sites of the enzyme are turned outside of the membrane.
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- Frédéric Ronzon
- Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Biologique, UMR 5013, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, Villeurbanne, France.
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Pelletier I, Bourque H, Buffeteau T, Blaudez D, Desbat B, Pézolet M. Study by Infrared Spectroscopy of Ultrathin Films of Behenic Acid Methyl Ester on Solid Substrates and at the Air/Water Interface. J Phys Chem B 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/jp012236a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- Isabelle Pelletier
- Centre de Recherche en Science et Ingénierie des Macromolécules, Département de Chimie, Université Laval, Québec, G1K 7P4, Canada, and Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire, UMR 5803 du CNRS, Université Bordeaux I, 33405 Talence, France, and Centre de Physique Moléculaire Optique et Hertzienne, UMR 5798 du CNRS, Université Bordeaux I, 33405 Talence, France
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- Centre de Recherche en Science et Ingénierie des Macromolécules, Département de Chimie, Université Laval, Québec, G1K 7P4, Canada, and Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire, UMR 5803 du CNRS, Université Bordeaux I, 33405 Talence, France, and Centre de Physique Moléculaire Optique et Hertzienne, UMR 5798 du CNRS, Université Bordeaux I, 33405 Talence, France
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- Centre de Recherche en Science et Ingénierie des Macromolécules, Département de Chimie, Université Laval, Québec, G1K 7P4, Canada, and Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire, UMR 5803 du CNRS, Université Bordeaux I, 33405 Talence, France, and Centre de Physique Moléculaire Optique et Hertzienne, UMR 5798 du CNRS, Université Bordeaux I, 33405 Talence, France
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- Centre de Recherche en Science et Ingénierie des Macromolécules, Département de Chimie, Université Laval, Québec, G1K 7P4, Canada, and Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire, UMR 5803 du CNRS, Université Bordeaux I, 33405 Talence, France, and Centre de Physique Moléculaire Optique et Hertzienne, UMR 5798 du CNRS, Université Bordeaux I, 33405 Talence, France
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- Centre de Recherche en Science et Ingénierie des Macromolécules, Département de Chimie, Université Laval, Québec, G1K 7P4, Canada, and Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire, UMR 5803 du CNRS, Université Bordeaux I, 33405 Talence, France, and Centre de Physique Moléculaire Optique et Hertzienne, UMR 5798 du CNRS, Université Bordeaux I, 33405 Talence, France
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- Centre de Recherche en Science et Ingénierie des Macromolécules, Département de Chimie, Université Laval, Québec, G1K 7P4, Canada, and Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie Moléculaire, UMR 5803 du CNRS, Université Bordeaux I, 33405 Talence, France, and Centre de Physique Moléculaire Optique et Hertzienne, UMR 5798 du CNRS, Université Bordeaux I, 33405 Talence, France
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Ronzon F, Desbat B, Chauvet JP, Roux B. Penetration of a GPI-anchored protein into phospholipid monolayers spread at the air/water interface. Colloids Surf B Biointerfaces 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/s0927-7765(01)00271-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Mendelsohn R, Flach CR. Infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopy of lipids, peptides, and proteins in aqueous monolayers. CURRENT TOPICS IN MEMBRANES 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/s1063-5823(02)52005-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Surface-sensitive X-ray and neutron scattering characterization of planar lipid model membranes and lipid/peptide interactions. PEPTIDE-LIPID INTERACTIONS 2002. [DOI: 10.1016/s1063-5823(02)52007-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Trudel E, Gallant J, Mons S, Mioskowski C, Lebeau L, Jeuris K, Foubert P, De Schryver F, Salesse C. Design of functionalized lipids and evidence for their binding to photosystem II core complex by oxygen evolution measurements, atomic force microscopy, and scanning near-field optical microscopy. Biophys J 2001; 81:563-71. [PMID: 11423438 PMCID: PMC1301535 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(01)75723-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Photosystem II core complex (PSII CC) absorbs light energy and triggers a series of electron transfer reactions by oxidizing water while producing molecular oxygen. Synthetic lipids with different alkyl chains and spacer lengths bearing functionalized headgroups were specifically designed to bind the Q(B) site and to anchor this large photosynthetic complex (240 kDa) in order to attempt two-dimensional crystallization. Among the series of different compounds that have been tested, oxygen evolution measurements have shown that dichlorophenyl urea (DCPU) binds very efficiently to the Q(B) site of PSII CC, and therefore, that moiety has been linked covalently to the headgroup of synthetic lipids. The analysis of the monolayer behavior of these DCPU-lipids has allowed us to select ones bearing long spacers for the anchoring of PSII CC. Oxygen evolution measurements demonstrated that these long-spacer DCPU-lipids specifically bind to PSII CC and inhibit electron transfer. With the use of atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning near-field optical microscopy (SNOM), it was possible to visualize domains of PSII CC bound to DCPU-lipid monolayers. SNOM imaging has enabled us to confirm that domains observed by AFM were composed of PSII CC. Indeed, the SNOM topography images presented similar domains as those observed by AFM, but in addition, it allowed us to determine that these domains are fluorescent. Electron microscopy of these domains, however, has shown that the bound PSII CC was not crystalline.
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- E Trudel
- Département de Chimie-Biologie, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, Québec G9A 5H7, Canada
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Dynarowicz-Latka P, Dhanabalan A, Oliveira ON. Modern physicochemical research on Langmuir monolayers. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2001; 91:221-93. [PMID: 11392357 DOI: 10.1016/s0001-8686(99)00034-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 223] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Recent developments in characterising Langmuir monolayers of a variety of film-forming materials and employing several physicochemical techniques are reviewed. The extension of the LB method to non-amphiphilic substances, especially macromolecular systems, has increased the need of a thorough understanding of Langmuir film properties, which requires characterising techniques that provide complementary information. Since there is vast literature in the subject, only selected examples are given of results that illustrate the potential of the techniques discussed.
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Schalke M, Lösche M. Structural models of lipid surface monolayers from X-ray and neutron reflectivity measurements. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2000; 88:243-74. [PMID: 11185700 DOI: 10.1016/s0001-8686(00)00047-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Structural investigations of phospholipid monolayers on aqueous subphases on the submolecular level using X-ray and neutron reflectivity measurements are reviewed. While such investigations have been limited in the past by a relatively restricted accessible momentum transfer range, recent developments in synchrotron technology--almost doubling this range--have considerably improved the capabilities of the technique. Until recently, data interpretation has entirely relied on 'box models' which describe the structures as molecularly homogeneous slabs--one hydrophobic and one hydrophilic. It is shown that box models of phospholipid monolayers are rather inadequate to model data at the high momentum transfer available nowadays in X-ray measurements. As an alternative, a hybrid data inversion strategy is proposed that treats the hydrophobic alkane phase as a homogeneous slab and describes the position of submolecular fragments of the lipid headgroups by means of distribution functions along the interface. Within this approach, composition-space refinement--enabling the coupling of data sets from various X-ray and neutron contrasts--in connection with volumetric constraints enables structural characterization of lipid monolayers in unprecedented detail. Extending a recent characterization of dimyristoylphosphatidic acid (DMPA) monolayers on pure water [Schalke et al., Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1464 (2000) 113-126] it is shown that stoichiometric binding of the divalent cations--DMPA-:Cat2+= 2:1--occurs only at exceedingly low areas per molecule, A lipid. At low surface pressure pi, both cations and anions are incorporated into the headgroup in significant amounts, approximately 0.68 Ba2+ and approximately 0.35 Cl- per PA molecule at pi = 2 mN m(-1). They are continuously squeezed out upon compression, until upon approaching Alipid = 41 A2, the stoichiometric ratio between bound cations and acidic headgroups is observed. The average inclination angle alpha of the headgroups as well as their water content is constant along the whole isotherm. The intrinsic contribution to the distribution width--i.e. the spread that is due to a distribution of the fragments within the headgroup without the action of capillary waves--increases with compression up to pi approximately 30 mN m(-1) and drops sharply thereafter in a regime of the isotherm where Alipid approaches its limiting value. The same general picture is observed for DMPA on subphases with 10 mM Ca2+, although the lower electron density of that cation limits the precision of the results.
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- M Schalke
- Leipzig University, Institute of Experimental Physics I, Germany
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Lavoie H, Gallant J, Grandbois M, Blaudez D, Desbat B, Boucher F, Salesse C. The behavior of membrane proteins in monolayers at the gas–water interface: comparison between photosystem II, rhodopsin and bacteriorhodopsin. MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING. C, MATERIALS FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS 1999. [DOI: 10.1016/s0928-4931(99)00124-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Kobayashi K, Nagamune T, Furuno T, Sasabe H. Monomolecular Layer of the Alkylated Cytochrome b562Formed at the Air/Water Interface. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 1999. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.72.691] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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