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Derivatives of 2,5-Diaryl-1,3-Oxazole and 2,5-Diaryl-1,3,4-Oxadiazole as Environment-Sensitive Fluorescent Probes for Studies of Biological Membranes. REVIEWS IN FLUORESCENCE 2017 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-01569-5_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Shen H, Deng M, Zhang Y. Extension of CAVS coarse-grained model to phospholipid membranes: The importance of electrostatics. J Comput Chem 2017; 38:971-980. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.24770] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2016] [Revised: 01/24/2017] [Accepted: 01/30/2017] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Hujun Shen
- Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Computational Nano-Material Science; Guizhou Synergetic Innovation Center of Scientific Big Data for Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Guizhou Education University; No. 115, Gaoxin Road Guiyang Guizhou 550018 People's Republic of China
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- Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Computational Nano-Material Science; Guizhou Synergetic Innovation Center of Scientific Big Data for Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Guizhou Education University; No. 115, Gaoxin Road Guiyang Guizhou 550018 People's Republic of China
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- Guizhou Provincial Key Laboratory of Computational Nano-Material Science; Guizhou Synergetic Innovation Center of Scientific Big Data for Advanced Manufacturing Technology, Guizhou Education University; No. 115, Gaoxin Road Guiyang Guizhou 550018 People's Republic of China
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Posokhov Y. Fluorescent probes sensitive to changes in the cholesterol-to-phospholipids molar ratio in human platelet membranes during atherosclerosis. Methods Appl Fluoresc 2016; 4:034013. [PMID: 28355159 DOI: 10.1088/2050-6120/4/3/034013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Environment-sensitive fluorescent probes were used for the spectroscopic visualization of pathological changes in human platelet membranes during cerebral atherosclerosis. It has been estimated that the ratiometric probes 2-(2'-hydroxyphenyl)-5-phenyl-1,3,4-oxadiazole and 2-phenyl-phenanthr[9,10]oxazole can detect changes in the cholesterol-to-phospholipids molar ratio in human platelet membranes during the disease.
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- Yevgen Posokhov
- Institute of Chemistry, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Kharkiv 61022, Ukraine
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Bohinc K, Giner-Casares JJ, May S. Analytic Model for the Dipole Potential of a Lipid Layer. J Phys Chem B 2014; 118:7568-7576. [PMID: 24912019 DOI: 10.1021/jp5050173] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The larger permeability of anions than cations through a lipid bilayer can be rationalized by the positive sign of the bilayer's dipole potential. That is, upon crossing the lipid headgroups toward the hydrocarbon chain region, the electrostatic potential increases by several hundred millivolts. We derive an analytic expression for the dipole potential of a single lipid layer using an electrostatic model that is based on an extended version of the linearized Poisson-Boltzmann theory. The model highlights the ability of the lipid headgroups to render the dipole potential positive by inducing an orientational ordering of the solvent molecules. The positive contribution of the solvent overcompensates the negative dipole potential due to the bare lipids. Our theoretical prediction compares accurately with measurements of the dipole potential that we have conducted for mixed anionic-zwitterionic lipid monolayers at the air-water interface.
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- Klemen Bohinc
- Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana , Zdravstvena 5, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- BioNanoPlasmonics Lab, CIC biomaGUNE , 20009 Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain.,Department of Physical Chemistry and Applied Thermodynamics, University of Cordoba , Campus de Rabanales, Edificio Marie Curie, Cordoba E-14014, Spain
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- Department of Physics, North Dakota State University , Fargo, North Dakota 58108-6050, United States
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The alteration of lipid bilayer dynamics by phloretin and 6-ketocholestanol. Chem Phys Lipids 2013; 178:38-44. [PMID: 24316311 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2013.11.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2013] [Revised: 11/13/2013] [Accepted: 11/14/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Lipid bilayer properties are quantified with a variety of arbitrary selected parameters such as molecular packing and dynamics, electrostatic potentials or permeability. In the paper we determined the effect of phloretin and 6-ketocholestanol (dipole potential modifying agents) on the membrane hydration and efficiency of the trans-membrane water flow. The dynamics of water molecules within the lipid bilayer interface was evaluated using solvent relaxation method, whereas the osmotically induced trans-membrane water flux was estimated with the stopped-flow method using the liposome shrinkage kinetics. The presence of phloretin or 6-ketocholestanol resulted in a change of both, the interfacial hydration level and osmotically driven water fluxes. Specifically, the presence of 6-ketocholestanol reduced the amount and mobility of water in the membrane interface. It also slows the osmotically induced water flow. The interfacial hydration change caused by phloretin was much smaller and the effect on osmotically induced water flow was opposite to that of 6-ketocholestanol.
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- Stefan Balaz
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota 58105, USA.
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Das R, Klymchenko AS, Duportail G, Mély Y. Excited State Proton Transfer and Solvent Relaxation of a 3-Hydroxyflavone Probe in Lipid Bilayers. J Phys Chem B 2008; 112:11929-35. [DOI: 10.1021/jp804956u] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Ranjan Das
- Photophysique des Interactions Biomoléculaires, UMR 7175 du CNRS, Institut Gilbert Laustriat, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Louis Pasteur, 67401 Illkirch, France, and Department of Chemistry, Bijoy Krishna Girls’ College, Howrah, West Bengal, India
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- Photophysique des Interactions Biomoléculaires, UMR 7175 du CNRS, Institut Gilbert Laustriat, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Louis Pasteur, 67401 Illkirch, France, and Department of Chemistry, Bijoy Krishna Girls’ College, Howrah, West Bengal, India
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- Photophysique des Interactions Biomoléculaires, UMR 7175 du CNRS, Institut Gilbert Laustriat, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Louis Pasteur, 67401 Illkirch, France, and Department of Chemistry, Bijoy Krishna Girls’ College, Howrah, West Bengal, India
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- Photophysique des Interactions Biomoléculaires, UMR 7175 du CNRS, Institut Gilbert Laustriat, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Louis Pasteur, 67401 Illkirch, France, and Department of Chemistry, Bijoy Krishna Girls’ College, Howrah, West Bengal, India
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Klymchenko AS, Mély Y, Demchenko AP, Duportail G. Simultaneous probing of hydration and polarity of lipid bilayers with 3-hydroxyflavone fluorescent dyes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2004; 1665:6-19. [PMID: 15471566 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2004.06.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2004] [Revised: 06/15/2004] [Accepted: 06/15/2004] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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The penetration of water into the hydrophobic interior leads to polarity and hydration profiles across lipid membranes which are fundamental in the maintenance of membrane architecture as well as in transport and insertion processes into the membrane. The present paper is an original attempt to evaluate simultaneously polarity and hydration properties of lipid bilayers by a fluorescence approach. We applied two 3-hydroxyflavone probes anchored in lipid bilayers at a relatively precise depth through their attached ammonium groups. They are present in two forms: either in H-bond-free form displaying a two-band emission due to an excited state intramolecular proton transfer reaction (ESIPT), or in H-bonded form displaying a single-band emission with no ESIPT. The individual emission profiles of these forms were obtained by deconvolution of the probes' fluorescence spectra. The polarity of the probe surrounding the bilayer was estimated from the two-band spectra of the H-bond-free form, while the local hydration was estimated from the relative contribution of the two forms. Our results confirm that by increasing the lipid order (phase transition from fluid to gel phase, addition of cholesterol or decrease in the lipid unsaturation), the polarity and to a lesser extent, the hydration of the bilayers decrease simultaneously. In contrast, when fluidity (i.e. lipid order) is kept invariant, increase of temperature and of bilayer curvature leads to a higher bilayer hydration with no effect on the polarity. Furthermore, no correlation was found between dipole potential and the hydration of the bilayers.
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- Andrey S Klymchenko
- Laboratoire de Pharmacologie et Physicochimie, UMR 7034 du CNRS, Faculté de Pharmacie, Université Louis Pasteur, BP 60024, 67401 Illkirch, France.
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Stern HA, Feller SE. Calculation of the dielectric permittivity profile for a nonuniform system: Application to a lipid bilayer simulation. J Chem Phys 2003. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1537244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 207] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Baran M, Mazerski J. Molecular modelling of membrane sterols with the use of the GROMOS 96 force field. Chem Phys Lipids 2002; 120:21-31. [PMID: 12426073 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-3084(02)00106-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Membrane located sterols determine the structure and function of eucariotic cell membranes. Moreover, they are targets for important antifungal antibiotic amphotericin B. Knowledge about the geometry and dynamics of sterols in the environment of lipidic membranes is necessary to understand their functions. However, due to the dynamic character of the membrane, no experimental data about sterol behaviour on the molecular level is available. Hence molecular modelling simulations could be a source of useful information. The main goal of this paper is to prove the adequacy of the GROMOS 96 force field for molecular simulations of membrane sterols. We focused our attention on the reproduction of characteristic geometrical features observed in the crystal of cholesterol hemiethanolate by molecular dynamics simulations. The results presented clearly indicate that the GROMOS 96 force field can be a useful tool to simulate the highly lipophilic systems. Moreover, interactions responsible for the stability of such systems can also be recognised.
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- Mariusz Baran
- Laboratory of Medical Informatics, Medical University of Gdansk, ul. Debinki 1, PL-80211, Gdansk, Poland
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Lin JH, Baker NA, McCammon JA. Bridging implicit and explicit solvent approaches for membrane electrostatics. Biophys J 2002; 83:1374-9. [PMID: 12202363 PMCID: PMC1302236 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(02)73908-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 56] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Conformations of a zwitterionic bilayer were sampled from a molecular dynamics simulation and their electrostatic properties analyzed by solution of the Poisson equation. These traditionally implicit electrostatic calculations were performed in the presence of varying amounts of explicit solvent to assess the magnitude of error introduced by a uniform dielectric description of water surrounding the bilayer. It was observed that membrane dipole potential calculations in the presence of explicit water were significantly different than wholly implicit solvent calculations with the calculated dipole potential converging to a reasonable value when four or more hydration layers were included explicitly.
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- Jung-Hsin Lin
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California at San Diego, Department of Pharmacology, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, La Jolla, California 92093-0365 USA.
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Pohl EE, Krylov AV, Block M, Pohl P. Changes of the membrane potential profile induced by verapamil and propranolol. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1998; 1373:170-8. [PMID: 9733961 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2736(98)00098-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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The effects of the organic calcium channel blocker verapamil and the beta-receptor blocker propranolol on dipole (phi(d)) and surface (phi(s)) potentials of bilayer lipid membranes were studied. The boundary potentials (phi(b)= phi(d) + phi(s)) of black lipid membranes, monitored by conductance measurements in the presence of nonactin and by capacitive current measurements were compared with phi(s) calculated from the electrophoretic mobility of lipid vesicles. It was shown that the increase of boundary potential, induced by the adsorption of the positively charged propranolol, was caused solely by an increase in surface potential. Although phi(s) also increases due to the adsorption of verapamil, phi(b) diminishes. A sharp decrease of the dipole potential was shown to be responsible for this effect. From Langmuir adsorption isotherm the dissociation constant Kd of verapamil was estimated. The uncharged form of verapamil (Kd=(0.061+/-0.01) mM at pH 10.5) has a tenfold higher affinity to a neutral bilayer membrane than the positively charged form. The alteration of membrane dipole potential due to verapamil adsorption may have important implications for both membrane translocation and partitioning of small or hydrophobic ions and charged groups of membrane proteins.
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- E E Pohl
- Department of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Martin-Luther University, 06097 Halle/Saale, Germany.
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