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Tabaei SR, Fernandez-Villamarin M, Vafaei S, Rooney L, Mendes PM. Recapitulating the Lateral Organization of Membrane Receptors at the Nanoscale. ACS NANO 2023. [PMID: 37200265 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.3c00683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
Abstract
Many cell membrane functions emerge from the lateral presentation of membrane receptors. The link between the nanoscale organization of the receptors and ligand binding remains, however, mostly unclear. In this work, we applied surface molecular imprinting and utilized the phase behavior of lipid bilayers to create platforms that recapitulate the lateral organization of membrane receptors at the nanoscale. We used liposomes decorated with amphiphilic boronic acids that commonly serve as synthetic saccharide receptors and generated three lateral modes of receptor presentation─random distribution, nanoclustering, and receptor crowding─and studied their interaction with saccharides. In comparison to liposomes with randomly dispersed receptors, surface-imprinted liposomes resulted in more than a 5-fold increase in avidity. Quantifying the binding affinity and cooperativity proved that the boost was mediated by the formation of the nanoclusters rather than a local increase in the receptor concentration. In contrast, receptor crowding, despite the presence of increased local receptor concentrations, prevented multivalent oligosaccharide binding due to steric effects. The findings demonstrate the significance of nanometric aspects of receptor presentation and generation of multivalent ligands including artificial lectins for the sensitive and specific detection of glycans.
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- Seyed R Tabaei
- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, Stranmillis Road, Belfast, BT9 5AG, U.K
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- School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, U.K
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- School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Queen's University Belfast, Stranmillis Road, Belfast, BT9 5AG, U.K
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- School of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, U.K
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Kinnun JJ, Scott HL, Bolmatov D, Collier CP, Charlton TR, Katsaras J. Biophysical studies of lipid nanodomains using different physical characterization techniques. Biophys J 2023; 122:931-949. [PMID: 36698312 PMCID: PMC10111277 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2023.01.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2022] [Revised: 01/12/2023] [Accepted: 01/19/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
Abstract
For the past 50 years, evidence for the existence of functional lipid domains has been steadily accumulating. Although the notion of functional lipid domains, also known as "lipid rafts," is now widely accepted, this was not always the case. This ambiguity surrounding lipid domains could be partly attributed to the fact that they are highly dynamic, nanoscopic structures. Since most commonly used techniques are sensitive to microscale structural features, it is therefore, not surprising that it took some time to reach a consensus regarding their existence. In this review article, we will discuss studies that have used techniques that are inherently sensitive to nanoscopic structural features (i.e., neutron scatting, nuclear magnetic resonance, and Förster resonance energy transfer). We will also mention techniques that may be of use in the future (i.e., cryoelectron microscopy, droplet interface bilayers, inelastic x-ray scattering, and neutron reflectometry), which can further our understanding of the different and unique physicochemical properties of nanoscopic lipid domains.
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- Jacob J Kinnun
- Large Scale Structures Group, Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Shull Wollan Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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- Large Scale Structures Group, Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Shull Wollan Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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- Shull Wollan Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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- Large Scale Structures Group, Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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- Shull Wollan Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee; Labs and Soft Matter Group, Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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Zubaite G, Hindley JW, Ces O, Elani Y. Dynamic Reconfiguration of Subcompartment Architectures in Artificial Cells. ACS NANO 2022; 16:9389-9400. [PMID: 35695383 PMCID: PMC9245354 DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c02195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 04/27/2022] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
Abstract
Artificial cells are minimal structures constructed from biomolecular building blocks designed to mimic cellular processes, behaviors, and architectures. One near-ubiquitous feature of cellular life is the spatial organization of internal content. We know from biology that organization of content (including in membrane-bound organelles) is linked to cellular functions and that this feature is dynamic: the presence, location, and degree of compartmentalization changes over time. Vesicle-based artificial cells, however, are not currently able to mimic this fundamental cellular property. Here, we describe an artificial cell design strategy that addresses this technological bottleneck. We create a series of artificial cell architectures which possess multicompartment assemblies localized either on the inner or on the outer surface of the artificial cell membrane. Exploiting liquid-liquid phase separation, we can also engineer spatially segregated regions of condensed subcompartments attached to the cell surface, aligning with coexisting membrane domains. These structures can sense changes in environmental conditions and respond by reversibly transitioning from condensed multicompartment layers on the membrane surface to a dispersed state in the cell lumen, mimicking the dynamic compartmentalization found in biological cells. Likewise, we engineer exosome-like subcompartments that can be released to the environment. We can achieve this by using two types of triggers: chemical (addition of salts) and mechanical (by pulling membrane tethers using optical traps). These approaches allow us to control the compartmentalization state of artificial cells on population and single-cell levels.
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- Greta Zubaite
- Department
of Chemistry, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12
0BZ, United Kingdom
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College
London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemistry, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12
0BZ, United Kingdom
- Institute
of Chemical Biology, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12
0BZ, United Kingdom
- fabriCELL,
Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial
College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12
0BZ, United Kingdom
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- Department
of Chemistry, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12
0BZ, United Kingdom
- Institute
of Chemical Biology, Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12
0BZ, United Kingdom
- fabriCELL,
Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial
College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12
0BZ, United Kingdom
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- fabriCELL,
Molecular Sciences Research Hub, Imperial
College London, 82 Wood Lane, London W12
0BZ, United Kingdom
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College
London, Exhibition Road, London SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
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Nakano M, Hanashima S, Hara T, Kabayama K, Asahina Y, Hojo H, Komura N, Ando H, Nyholm TKM, Slotte JP, Murata M. FRET detects lateral interaction between transmembrane domain of EGF receptor and ganglioside GM3 in lipid bilayers. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2021; 1863:183623. [PMID: 33933428 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2021.183623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2020] [Revised: 04/03/2021] [Accepted: 04/05/2021] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
Abstract
Ganglioside GM3 in the plasma membranes suppresses cell growth by preventing the autophosphorylation of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR). Biological studies have suggested that GM3 interacts with the transmembrane segment of EGFR. Further biophysical experiments are particularly important for quantitative evaluation of the peptide-glycolipid interplay in bilayer membranes using a simple reconstituted system. To examine these interactions in this way, we synthesized the transmembrane segment of EGFR bearing a nitrobenzoxadiazole fluorophore (NBD-TM) at the N-terminus. The affinity between EGFR and GM3 was evaluated based on Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) between NBD-TM and ATTO594-labeled GM3 in bilayers where their non-specific interaction due to lateral proximity was subtracted by using NBD-labeled phospholipid. This method for selectively detecting the specific lipid-peptide interactions in model lipid bilayers disclosed that the lateral interaction between GM3 and the transmembrane segment of EGFR plays a certain role in disturbing the formation of active EGFR dimers.
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- Mikito Nakano
- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan.
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan; ERATO, Lipid Active Structure Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan
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- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 3-2, Suita 565-0871, Japan
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- Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Yamadaoka 3-2, Suita 565-0871, Japan
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- Center for Highly Advanced Integration of Nano and Life Sciences (G-CHAIN), Gifu University, Gifu 501-1193, Japan; Institute for Glyco-core Research (iGCORE), Gifu University, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- Center for Highly Advanced Integration of Nano and Life Sciences (G-CHAIN), Gifu University, Gifu 501-1193, Japan; Institute for Glyco-core Research (iGCORE), Gifu University, Gifu 501-1193, Japan
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- Biochemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, 20520 Turku, Finland
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- Biochemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, 20520 Turku, Finland
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- Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama-cho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan; ERATO, Lipid Active Structure Project, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, Osaka 560-0043, Japan.
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Okuno K, Saeki D, Matsuyama H. Phase separation behavior of binary mixture of photopolymerizable diacetylene and unsaturated phospholipids in liposomes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2020; 1862:183377. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2020.183377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2019] [Revised: 05/08/2020] [Accepted: 05/22/2020] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Kinoshita M, Ano H, Murata M, Shigetomi K, Ikenouchi J, Matsumori N. Emphatic visualization of sphingomyelin-rich domains by inter-lipid FRET imaging using fluorescent sphingomyelins. Sci Rep 2017; 7:16801. [PMID: 29196620 PMCID: PMC5711942 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-16361-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/25/2017] [Accepted: 11/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/11/2022] Open
Abstract
Imaging the distribution of sphingomyelin (SM) in membranes is an important issue in lipid-raft research. Recently we developed novel fluorescent SM analogs that exhibit partition and dynamic behaviors similar to native SM, and succeeded in visualizing lateral domain-segregation between SM-rich liquid-ordered (Lo) and SM-poor liquid-disordered (Ld) domains. However, because the fluorescent contrast between these two domains depends directly on their partition ratio for the fluorescent SMs, domain-separation becomes indeterminate when the distribution difference is not great enough. In this study, we propose the use of inter-lipid Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) imaging between fluorescent SMs to enhance the contrast of the two domains in cases in which the inter-domain difference in SM distribution is inadequate for conventional monochromic imaging. Our results demonstrate that inter-lipid FRET intensity was significantly higher in the Lo domain than in the Ld domain, resulting in a clear and distinguishable contrast between the two domains even in poorly phase-separated giant unilamellar vesicles. In addition, we show that inter-lipid FRET imaging is useful for selective visualization of highly condensed assemblies and/or clusters of SM molecules in living cell membranes. Thus, the inter-lipid FRET imaging technique can selectively emphasize the SM-condensed domains in both artificial and biological membranes.
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- Masanao Kinoshita
- JST-ERATO Lipid Active Structure Project, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan. .,Project Research Center for Fundamental Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan. .,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan.
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- JST-ERATO Lipid Active Structure Project, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan.,Project Research Center for Fundamental Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan
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- JST-ERATO Lipid Active Structure Project, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan.,Project Research Center for Fundamental Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan.,Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
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- Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan
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- JST-ERATO Lipid Active Structure Project, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan. .,Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Kyushu University, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka, 819-0395, Japan. .,Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Osaka University, 1-1 Machikaneyama, Toyonaka, Osaka, 560-0043, Japan.
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Rabinovich AL, Lyubartsev AP, Zhurkin DV. Unperturbed hydrocarbon chains and liquid phase bilayer lipid chains: a computer simulation study. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2017; 47:109-130. [PMID: 28698919 PMCID: PMC5834621 DOI: 10.1007/s00249-017-1231-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2017] [Revised: 04/13/2017] [Accepted: 06/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
Abstract
In this work, the properties of saturated and unsaturated fatty acid acyl chains 16:0, 18:0, 18:1(n-9)cis, 18:2(n-6)cis, 18:3(n-3)cis, 18:4(n-3)cis, 18:5(n-3)cis, 20:4(n-6)cis, 20:5(n-3)cis and 22:6(n-3)cis in a bilayer liquid crystalline state and similar hydrocarbon chains (with CH[Formula: see text] terminal groups instead of C=O groups) in the unperturbed state characterised by a lack of long-range interaction were investigated. The unperturbed hydrocarbon chains were modelled by Monte Carlo simulations at temperature [Formula: see text] K; sixteen fully hydrated homogeneous liquid crystalline phosphatidylcholine bilayers containing these chains were studied by molecular dynamics simulations at the same temperature. To eliminate effects of the simulation parameters, the molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations were carried out using the same structural data and force field coefficients. From these computer simulations, the average distances between terminal carbon atoms of the chains (end-to-end distances) were calculated and compared. The trends in the end-to-end distances obtained for the unperturbed chains were found to be qualitatively similar to those obtained for the same lipid chains in the bilayers. So, for understanding of a number of processes in biological membranes (e.g., changes in fatty acid composition caused by environmental changes such as temperature and pressure), it is possible to use, at least as a first approximation, the relationships between the structure and properties for unperturbed or isolated hydrocarbon chains.
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- Alexander L Rabinovich
- Institute of Biology, Karelian Research Center, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushkinskaya 11, Petrozavodsk, 185910, Russian Federation
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- Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden.
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- Physics and Technology Department, Petrozavodsk State University, Universitetskaya 10, Petrozavodsk, 185910, Russian Federation
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Ibarguren M, López DJ, Escribá PV. The effect of natural and synthetic fatty acids on membrane structure, microdomain organization, cellular functions and human health. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2014; 1838:1518-28. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2013.12.021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 164] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2013] [Revised: 12/20/2013] [Accepted: 12/24/2013] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Davis RS, Sunil Kumar PB, Sperotto MM, Laradji M. Predictions of Phase Separation in Three-Component Lipid Membranes by the MARTINI Force Field. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:4072-80. [DOI: 10.1021/jp4000686] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
Affiliation(s)
- Ryan S. Davis
- Department
of Physics, The University of Memphis, Memphis,
Tennessee 38152, United States
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai- 600 036, India
and MEMPHYS - Center for Biomembrane Physics, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark
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- CBS - Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kgs. Lyngby,
Denmark
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- Department
of Physics, The University of Memphis, Memphis,
Tennessee 38152, United States and MEMPHYS - Center for Biomembrane
Physics, University of Southern Denmark, 5230 Odense, Denmark
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Teague H, Ross R, Harris M, Mitchell DC, Shaikh SR. DHA-fluorescent probe is sensitive to membrane order and reveals molecular adaptation of DHA in ordered lipid microdomains. J Nutr Biochem 2012; 24:188-95. [PMID: 22841541 DOI: 10.1016/j.jnutbio.2012.04.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2011] [Revised: 04/11/2012] [Accepted: 04/18/2012] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) disrupts the size and order of plasma membrane lipid microdomains in vitro and in vivo. However, it is unknown how the highly disordered structure of DHA mechanistically adapts to increase the order of tightly packed lipid microdomains. Therefore, we studied a novel DHA-Bodipy fluorescent probe to address this issue. We first determined if the DHA-Bodipy probe localized to the plasma membrane of primary B and immortal EL4 cells. Image analysis revealed that DHA-Bodipy localized into the plasma membrane of primary B cells more efficiently than EL4 cells. We then determined if the probe detected changes in plasma membrane order. Quantitative analysis of time-lapse movies established that DHA-Bodipy was sensitive to membrane molecular order. This allowed us to investigate how DHA-Bodipy physically adapted to ordered lipid microdomains. To accomplish this, we employed steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy measurements in lipid vesicles of varying composition. Similar to cell culture studies, the probe was highly sensitive to membrane order in lipid vesicles. Moreover, these experiments revealed, relative to controls, that upon incorporation into highly ordered microdomains, DHA-Bodipy underwent an increase in its fluorescence lifetime and molecular order. In addition, the probe displayed a significant reduction in its rotational diffusion compared to controls. Altogether, DHA-Bodipy was highly sensitive to membrane order and revealed for the first time that DHA, despite its flexibility, could become ordered with less rotational motion inside ordered lipid microdomains. Mechanistically, this explains how DHA acyl chains can increase order upon formation of lipid microdomains in vivo.
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- Heather Teague
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute, East Carolina University, NC 27834, USA
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Rosetti C, Pastorino C. Polyunsaturated and Saturated Phospholipids in Mixed Bilayers: A Study from the Molecular Scale to the Lateral Lipid Organization. J Phys Chem B 2010; 115:1002-13. [DOI: 10.1021/jp1082888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- C. Rosetti
- Departamento de Física, Centro Atómico Constituyentes CNEA, Av. Gral. Paz 1499, 1650 San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- CONICET, Avda. Rivadavia 1917, C1033AAJ Cdad. de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Departamento de Física, Centro Atómico Constituyentes CNEA, Av. Gral. Paz 1499, 1650 San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- CONICET, Avda. Rivadavia 1917, C1033AAJ Cdad. de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Raza Shaikh S. Diet-induced docosahexaenoic acid non-raft domains and lymphocyte function. Prostaglandins Leukot Essent Fatty Acids 2010; 82:159-64. [PMID: 20207118 DOI: 10.1016/j.plefa.2010.02.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2009] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
Abstract
Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is an n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) that generally suppresses the function of T lymphocytes and antigen presenting cells (APCs). An emerging mechanism by which DHA modifies lymphocyte function is through changes in the organization of sphingolipid/cholesterol lipid raft membrane domains. Two contradictory models have been proposed to explain how DHA exerts its effects through changes in raft organization. The biophysical model, developed in model membranes, shows that DHA-containing phospholipids form unique non-raft membrane domains, that are organizationally distinct from lipid rafts, which serve to alter the conformation and/or lateral organization of lymphocyte proteins. In contrast, the cellular model on DHA and rafts shows that DHA suppresses lymphocyte function, in part, by directly incorporating into lipid rafts and altering protein activity. To reconcile opposing biophysical and cellular viewpoints, a major revision to existing models is presented herein. Based largely on quantitative microscopy data, it is proposed that DHA, consumed through the diet, modifies lymphocyte function, in part, through the formation of nanometer scale DHA-rich domains. These nano-scale domains disrupt the optimal raft-dependent clustering of proteins necessary for initial signaling. The data covered in this review highlights the importance of understanding how dietary n-3 PUFAs modify lymphocyte membranes, which is essential toward developing these fatty acids as therapeutic agents for treating inflammatory diseases.
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- Saame Raza Shaikh
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 28590, USA.
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Membrane microheterogeneity: Förster resonance energy transfer characterization of lateral membrane domains. EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL: EBJ 2009; 39:589-607. [DOI: 10.1007/s00249-009-0547-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/14/2009] [Revised: 09/14/2009] [Accepted: 09/24/2009] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Sasaki H, White SH. A novel fluorescent probe that senses the physical state of lipid bilayers. Biophys J 2009; 96:4631-41. [PMID: 19486685 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.03.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/06/2008] [Revised: 03/13/2009] [Accepted: 03/18/2009] [Indexed: 11/27/2022] Open
Abstract
Cell membrane lipids and proteins are heterogeneously distributed in the membrane plane. In recent years, much attention has been paid to the heterogeneous distribution of the lipid components, particularly the formation of cholesterol-rich domains that are thought to be important in signaling processes. This has led to renewed interest in the phase diagrams of complex lipid mixtures, such as three-component mixtures containing phospholipids and cholesterol. We report here a novel fluorescent probe (NBD-R595) that is useful for exploring the phase behaviors of one-, two-, and three-component large unilamellar vesicles. In one-component fluid-phase membranes, the probe has the expected spectral characteristic of monomeric 7-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3-diazol, with a fluorescence maximum of 540 nm when excited at 470 nm. But below the gel-to-liquid crystalline phase transition temperature, an additional emission peak appears at approximately 610 nm, because of Förster resonance energy transfer from NBD-R595 monomers to NBD-R595 Jelley aggregates of limited size formed by the association of 7-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3-diazol moieties. This may be the first report of Förster resonance energy transfer from a single fluorophore in two different physical states. In a test of the probe, we found NBD-R595 to be remarkably sensitive to the molar composition of large unilamellar vesicles formed from cholesterol, distearoylphosphatidylcholine, and dioleoylphosphatidylcholine.
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- Hirotaka Sasaki
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, California, USA
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Chapkin RS, Seo J, McMurray DN, Lupton JR. Mechanisms by which docosahexaenoic acid and related fatty acids reduce colon cancer risk and inflammatory disorders of the intestine. Chem Phys Lipids 2008; 153:14-23. [PMID: 18346463 DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2008.02.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 76] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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A growing body of epidemiological, clinical, and experimental evidence has underscored both the pharmacological potential and the nutritional value of dietary fish oil enriched in very long chain n-3 PUFAs such as docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6, n-3) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5, n-3). The broad health benefits of very long chain n-3 PUFAs and the pleiotropic effects of dietary fish oil and DHA have been proposed to involve alterations in membrane structure and function, eicosanoid metabolism, gene expression and the formation of lipid peroxidation products, although a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms of action has yet to be elucidated. In this review, we present data demonstrating that DHA selectively modulates the subcellular localization of lipidated signaling proteins depending on their transport pathway, which may be universally applied to other lipidated protein trafficking. An interesting possibility raised by the current observations is that lipidated proteins may exhibit different subcellular distribution profiles in various tissues, which contain a distinct membrane lipid composition. In addition, the current findings clearly indicate that subcellular localization of proteins with a certain trafficking pathway can be subjected to selective regulation by dietary manipulation. This form of regulated plasma membrane targeting of a select subset of upstream signaling proteins may provide cells with the flexibility to coordinate the arrangement of signaling translators on the cell surface. Ultimately, this may allow organ systems such as the colon to optimally decode, respond, and adapt to the vagaries of an ever-changing extracellular environment.
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- Robert S Chapkin
- Center for Environmental and Rural Health, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-2553, United States.
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Filippov A, Orädd G, Lindblom G. Domain formation in model membranes studied by pulsed-field gradient-NMR: the role of lipid polyunsaturation. Biophys J 2007; 93:3182-90. [PMID: 17660319 PMCID: PMC2025657 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.107.111534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [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 increased unsaturation in the sn-2 fatty acyl chain of phosphatidylcholines (PCs) on the lipid lateral diffusion have been investigated by pulsed-field gradient NMR. Macroscopically oriented bilayers containing a monosaturated PC, egg sphingomyelin, and cholesterol (CHOL) have been studied at temperatures between 0 degrees C and 60 degrees C, and the number of double bonds in the PC was one, two, four, or six. For PC bilayers, with and without the incorporation of egg sphingomyelin and CHOL, the lateral diffusion increased with increasing number of double bonds, as a consequence of the increased headgroup area caused by the unsaturation. Addition of CHOL caused a decrease in lipid diffusion due to the condensing effect of CHOL on the headgroup area. Phase separation into large domains of liquid-disordered and liquid-ordered phases were observed in the ternary systems with PCs containing four and six double bonds, as evidenced by the occurrence of two lipid diffusion coefficients. PC bilayers with one or two double bonds appear homogeneous on the length scales probed by the experiment, but the temperature dependence of the diffusion suggests that small domains may be present also in these ternary systems.
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- Andrey Filippov
- Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden
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Redfern DA, Gericke A. Domain formation in phosphatidylinositol monophosphate/phosphatidylcholine mixed vesicles. Biophys J 2004; 86:2980-92. [PMID: 15111413 PMCID: PMC1304165 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(04)74348-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Phosphoinositides have been shown to control membrane trafficking events by targeting proteins to specific cellular sites, which requires a tight regulation of phosphoinositide generation and turnover as well as a high degree of compartmentalization. To shed light on the processes that lead to the formation of phosphoinositide-enriched microdomains, phosphatidylcholine/phosphatidylinositol monophosphate (phosphatidylinositol-3-phosphate (PI-3P), -4-phosphate (PI-4P), or -5-phosphate (PI-5P)) mixed vesicles were investigated by calorimetric (DSC) Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic (FTIR), and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) measurements. The experiments furnished results consistent with a pH-dependent formation of phosphatidylinositol monophosphate-enriched microdomains. The domain formation was most pronounced between pH approximately 7 and approximately 9.5, whereas slightly acidic pH values (pH 4) resulted in the disintegration of the domains. This pH-dependent phosphatidylcholine/phosphatidylinositol monophosphate demixing was observed for the gel phase (FTIR experiments) as well as for the fluid lipid phase (FRET measurements). The observed microdomains are presumably stabilized by hydroxyl/hydroxyl as well as hydroxyl/phosphomonoester and phosphodiester interactions. While the pH dependence of the mutual phosphatidylinositol monophosphate interaction was largely the same for all investigated phosphatidylinositol monophosphates, it turned out that the relative stability of phosphatidylinositol monophosphate-enriched microdomains (pH 7-9.5) was governed by the position of the phosphomonoester group at the inositol ring (PI-4P > PI-5P > PI-3P). Demixing was also observed for phosphatidylcholine/phosphatidylinositol mixed vesicles; however, in this case the microdomain formation was only slightly affected by pH changes.
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- Duane A Redfern
- Chemistry Department, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA
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Halling KK, Slotte JP. Membrane properties of plant sterols in phospholipid bilayers as determined by differential scanning calorimetry, resonance energy transfer and detergent-induced solubilization. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2004; 1664:161-71. [PMID: 15328048 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2004.05.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2004] [Accepted: 05/11/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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The increased use of plant sterols as cholesterol-lowering agents warrants further research on the possible effects of plant sterols in membranes. In this study, the effects of the incorporation of cholesterol, campesterol, beta-sitosterol and stigmasterol in phospholipid bilayers were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), resonance energy transfer (RET) between trans parinaric acid (tPA) and 2-(6-(7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-yl)amino)hexanoyl-1-hexadecanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (NBD-PC), and Triton X-100-induced solubilization. The phospholipids used were 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC), D-erythro-N-palmitoyl-sphingomyelin (PSM), and 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC). In DSC experiments, it was demonstrated that the sterols differed in their effect on the melting temperatures of both the sterol-poor and the sterol-rich domains in DPPC and PSM bilayers. The plant sterols gave rise to lower temperatures of both transitions, when compared with cholesterol. The plant sterols also resulted in lower transition temperatures, in comparison with cholesterol, when sterol-containing DPPC and PSM bilayers were investigated by RET. In the detergent solubilization experiments, the total molar ratio between Triton X-100 and POPC at the onset of solubilization (R(t,sat)) was higher for bilayers containing plant sterols, in comparison with membranes containing cholesterol. Taken together, the observations presented in this study indicate that campesterol, beta-sitosterol and stigmasterol interacted less favorably than cholesterol with the phospholipids, leading to measurable differences in their domain properties.
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- Katrin K Halling
- Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacy, Abo Akademi University, PO Box 66, FIN 20521 Turku, Finland.
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Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) with 22-carbons and 6 double bonds is the extreme example of an omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA). DHA has strong medical implications since its dietary presence has been positively linked to the prevention of numerous human afflictions including cancer and heart disease. The PUFA, moreover, is essential to neurological function. It is remarkable that one simple molecule has been reported to affect so many seemingly unrelated biological processes. Although details of a molecular mode of action remain elusive, DHA must be acting at a fundamental level common to many tissues that is related to the high degree of conformational flexibility that the multiple double bonds have been identified to confer. One likely target for DHA action is at the cell membrane where the fatty acid is known to readily incorporate into membrane phospholipids. Once esterified into phospholipids DHA has been demonstrated to significantly alter many basic properties of membranes including acyl chain order and "fluidity", phase behavior, elastic compressibility, permeability, fusion, flip-flop and protein activity. It is concluded that DHA's interaction with other membrane lipids, particularly cholesterol, may play a prominent role in modulating the local structure and function of cell membranes.
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- William Stillwell
- Department of Biology, Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis, 723 W Michigan Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5132, USA.
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Silvius JR. Fluorescence energy transfer reveals microdomain formation at physiological temperatures in lipid mixtures modeling the outer leaflet of the plasma membrane. Biophys J 2003; 85:1034-45. [PMID: 12885650 PMCID: PMC1303224 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(03)74542-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 119] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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An approach is described using fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) to detect inhomogeneity in lipid organization, on distance scales of the order of tens of nanometers or greater, in lipid bilayers. This approach compares the efficiency of energy transfer between two matched fluorescent lipid donors, differing in their affinities for ordered versus disordered regions of the bilayer, and an acceptor lipid that distributes preferentially into disordered regions. Inhomogeneities in bilayer organization, on spatial scales of tens of nanometers or greater, are detected as a marked difference in the efficiencies of quenching of fluorescence of the two donor species by the acceptor. Using a novel pair of 7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-yl (NBD)-labeled tetraacyl lipids as donor species with a rhodaminyl-labeled acceptor, this strategy faithfully reports homo- versus inhomogeneous mixing in each of several lipid bilayer systems whose organization on the FRET distance scale can be predicted from previous findings. Interestingly, however, the present FRET method reports clear evidence of inhomogeneity in the organization of mixtures combining sphingomyelin or saturated phospholipids with unsaturated phospholipids and physiological proportions of cholesterol, even at physiological temperatures where these systems have been reported to appear homogeneous by fluorescence microscopy. These results indicate that under physiological conditions, lipid mixtures mimicking the lipid composition of the outer leaflet of the plasma membrane can form domains on a spatial scale comparable to that inferred for the dimensions of lipid rafts in biological membranes.
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- John R Silvius
- Department of Biochemistry, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3G 1Y6, Canada.
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Franzin CM, Macdonald PM. Polylysine-induced 2H NMR-observable domains in phosphatidylserine/phosphatidylcholine lipid bilayers. Biophys J 2001; 81:3346-62. [PMID: 11720998 PMCID: PMC1301792 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(01)75968-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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The interaction of three polylysines, Lys(5) (N = 5), Lys(30) (N = 30), and Lys(100) (N = 100), where N is the number of lysine residues per chain, with phosphatidylserine-containing lipid bilayer membranes was investigated using 2H NMR spectroscopy. Lys(30) and Lys(100) added to multilamellar vesicles composed of (70:30) (mol:mol) mixtures of choline-deuterated 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) + 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoserine (POPS) produced two resolvable 2H NMR spectral components under conditions of low ionic strength and for cases where the global anionic lipid charge was in excess over the global cationic polypeptide charge. The intensities and quadrupolar splittings of the two spectral components were consistent with the existence of polylysine-bound domains enriched in POPS, in coexistence with polylysine-free domains depleted in POPS. Lys(5), however, yielded no 2H NMR resolvable domains. Increasing ionic strength caused domains to become diffuse and eventually dissipate entirely. At physiological salt concentrations, only Lys(100) yielded 2H NMR-resolvable domains. Therefore, under physiological conditions of ionic strength, pH, and anionic lipid bilayer content, and in the absence of other, e.g., hydrophobic, contributions to the binding free energy, the minimum number of lysine residues sufficient to produce spectroscopically resolvable POPS-enriched domains on the 2H NMR millisecond timescale may be fewer than 100, but is certainly greater than 30.
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- C M Franzin
- Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto at Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada
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Loura LM, Fedorov A, Prieto M. Exclusion of a cholesterol analog from the cholesterol-rich phase in model membranes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 2001; 1511:236-43. [PMID: 11286966 DOI: 10.1016/s0005-2736(01)00269-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Vesicles of phosphatidylcholine/cholesterol mixtures show a wide composition range with coexistence of two fluid phases, the 'liquid disordered' (cholesterol-poor) and 'liquid ordered' (cholesterol-rich) phases. These systems have been widely used as models of membranes exhibiting lateral heterogeneity (membrane domains). The distributions of two fluorescent probes (a fluorescent cholesterol analog, NBD-cholesterol, and a lipophilic rhodamine probe, octadecylrhodamine B) in dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine/cholesterol vesicles were studied, at 30 degrees C and 40 degrees C. The steady-state fluorescence intensity of both probes decreases markedly with increasing cholesterol concentration, unlike the fluorescence lifetimes. The liquid ordered to liquid disordered phase partition coefficients K(p) were measured, and values much less than unity were obtained for both probes, pointing to preference for the cholesterol-poor phase. Globally analyzed time-resolved energy transfer results confirmed these findings. It is concluded that, in particular, NBD-cholesterol is not a suitable cholesterol analog and its distribution behavior in phosphatidylcholine/cholesterol bilayers is in fact opposite to that of cholesterol.
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- L M Loura
- Centro de Quimica-Fisica Molecular, Instituto Superior Tecnio, P-1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
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Leidy C, Wolkers WF, Jørgensen K, Mouritsen OG, Crowe JH. Lateral organization and domain formation in a two-component lipid membrane system. Biophys J 2001; 80:1819-28. [PMID: 11259295 PMCID: PMC1301371 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(01)76152-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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The thermodynamic phase behavior and lateral lipid membrane organization of unilamellar vesicles made from mixtures of 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) and 1,2 distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DSPC) were investigated by fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) as a function of temperature and composition. This was done by incorporating a headgroup-labeled lipid donor (NBD-DPPE) and acceptor (N-Rh-DPPE) in low concentrations into the binary mixtures. Two instances of increased energy transfer efficiency were observed close to the phase lines in the DMPC/DSPC phase diagram. The increase in energy transfer efficiency was attributed to a differential preference of the probes for dynamic and fluctuating gel/fluid coexisting phases. This differential preference causes the probes to segregate (S. Pedersen, K. Jørgensen, T. R. Baekmark, and O. G. Mouritsen, 1996, Biophys. J. 71:554-560). The observed increases in energy transfer match with the boundaries of the DMPC/DSPC phase diagram, as measured by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). We propose that the two instances of probe segregation are due to the presence of DMPC-rich and DSPC-rich domains, which form a dynamic structure of gel/fluid coexisting phases at two different temperatures. Monitoring the melting profile of each lipid component independently by FTIR shows that the domain structure is formed by DMPC-rich and DSPC-rich domains rather than by pure DMPC and DSPC domains.
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- C Leidy
- Biophysics and Structural Biology Graduate Group, Section of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California, Davis 95616, USA.
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