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Carreira AC, Ventura AE, Varela AR, Silva LC. Tackling the biophysical properties of sphingolipids to decipher their biological roles. Biol Chem 2015; 396:597-609. [DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2014-0283] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2014] [Accepted: 01/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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From the most simple sphingoid bases to their complex glycosylated derivatives, several sphingolipid species were shown to have a role in fundamental cellular events and/or disease. Increasing evidence places lipid-lipid interactions and membrane structural alterations as central mechanisms underlying the action of these lipids. Understanding how these molecules exert their biological roles by studying their impact in the physical properties and organization of membranes is currently one of the main challenges in sphingolipid research. Herein, we review the progress in the state-of-the-art on the biophysical properties of sphingolipid-containing membranes, focusing on sphingosine, ceramides, and glycosphingolipids.
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Bagatolli LA. Monitoring Membrane Hydration with 2-(Dimethylamino)-6-Acylnaphtalenes Fluorescent Probes. Subcell Biochem 2015; 71:105-125. [PMID: 26438263 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-19060-0_5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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A family of polarity sensitive fluorescent probes (2-(dimethylamino)-6-acylnaphtalenes, i.e. LAURDAN, PRODAN, ACDAN) was introduced by Gregorio Weber in 1979, with the aim to monitor solvent relaxation phenomena on protein matrices. In the following years, however, PRODAN and particularly LAURDAN, were used to study membrane lateral structure and associated dynamics. Once incorporated into membranes, the (nanosecond) fluorescent decay of these probes is strongly affected by changes in the local polarity and relaxation dynamics of restricted water molecules existing at the membrane/water interface. For instance, when glycerophospholipid containing membranes undertake a solid ordered (gel) to liquid disordered phase transition the fluorescence emission maximum of these probes shift ~ 50 nm with a significant change in their fluorescence lifetime. Furthermore, the fluorescence parameters of LAURDAN and PRODAN are exquisitely sensitive to cholesterol effects, allowing interpretations that correlate changes in membrane packing with membrane hydration. Different membrane model systems as well as innate biological membranes have been studied with this family of probes allowing interesting comparative studies. This chapter presents a short historical overview about these fluorescent reporters, discusses on different models proposed to explain their sensitivity to membrane hydration, and includes relevant examples from experiments performed in artificial and biological membranes.
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- Luis A Bagatolli
- Membrane Biophysics and Biophotonics Group/MEMPHYS-Center for Biomembrane Physics, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230, Odense M, Denmark.
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Kuroda K, Iwabuchi T, Obara M, Honda M, Saito K, Imai Y. Temperature dependence of relaxation times in proton components of fatty acids. Magn Reson Med Sci 2012; 10:177-83. [PMID: 21960000 DOI: 10.2463/mrms.10.177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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We examined the temperature dependence of relaxation times in proton components of fatty acids in various samples in vitro at 11 tesla as a standard calibration data for quantitative temperature imaging of fat. The spin-lattice relaxation time, T(1), of both the methylene (CH(2)) chain and terminal methyl (CH(3)) was linearly related to temperature (r>0.98, P<0.001) in samples of animal fat. The temperature coefficients for the 2 primary proton components differed significantly; in 5 bovine fat samples, the coefficient at 30 °C was 1.79±0.07 (%/°C) for methylene and 2.98±0.38 (%/°C) for methyl. Numerical simulations based on such a difference demonstrated the possibility of considerable error from inconsistent ratios in fatty acid components when calibrating and estimating temperature. The error reached 3.3 °C per 15 °C in temperature elevation when we used a pure CH(2) signal for calibration and observed the signal with 18% of CH(3) to estimate temperature. These findings suggested that separating the fatty acid components would significantly improve accuracy in quantitative thermometry for fat. Use of the T(1) of CH(2) seems promising in terms of reliability and reproducibility in measuring temperature of fat.
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- Kagayaki Kuroda
- Graduate School of Engineering, Tokai University, Kanagawa, Japan.
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Bagatolli LA. LAURDAN Fluorescence Properties in Membranes: A Journey from the Fluorometer to the Microscope. SPRINGER SERIES ON FLUORESCENCE 2012. [DOI: 10.1007/4243_2012_42] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Jedlovszky P, Sega M, Vallauri R. GM1 Ganglioside Embedded in a Hydrated DOPC Membrane: A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study. J Phys Chem B 2009; 113:4876-86. [DOI: 10.1021/jp808199p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Pál Jedlovszky
- Laboratory of Interfaces and Nanosize Systems, Institute of Chemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter stny. 1/a, H-1117 Budapest, Hungary, and HAS Research Group of Technical Analytical Chemistry, Szt. Gellért tér 4, H-1111 Budapest, Hungary
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- Department of Physics, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38050 Povo, Trento, Italy, and Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, J. W. Goethe University, Ruth-Moufang Str. 1, D-60438 Frankfurt, Germany
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- Department of Physics, University of Trento, via Sommarive 14, I-38050 Povo, Trento, Italy
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Westerlund B, Slotte JP. How the molecular features of glycosphingolipids affect domain formation in fluid membranes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2009; 1788:194-201. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2008.11.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2008] [Revised: 10/28/2008] [Accepted: 11/12/2008] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Patel RY, Balaji PV. Characterization of Symmetric and Asymmetric Lipid Bilayers Composed of Varying Concentrations of Ganglioside GM1 and DPPC. J Phys Chem B 2008; 112:3346-56. [DOI: 10.1021/jp075975l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Maggio B, Borioli GA, Del Boca M, De Tullio L, Fanani ML, Oliveira RG, Rosetti CM, Wilke N. Composition-driven surface domain structuring mediated by sphingolipids and membrane-active proteins. Above the nano- but under the micro-scale: mesoscopic biochemical/structural cross-talk in biomembranes. Cell Biochem Biophys 2007; 50:79-109. [PMID: 17968678 DOI: 10.1007/s12013-007-9004-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 09/28/2007] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Biomembranes contain a wide variety of lipids and proteins within an essentially two-dimensional structure. The coexistence of such a large number of molecular species causes local tensions that frequently relax into a phase or compositional immiscibility along the lateral and transverse planes of the interface. As a consequence, a substantial microheterogeneity of the surface topography develops and that depends not only on the lipid-protein composition, but also on the lateral and transverse tensions generated as a consequence of molecular interactions. The presence of proteins, and immiscibility among lipids, constitute major perturbing factors for the membrane sculpturing both in terms of its surface topography and dynamics. In this work, we will summarize some recent evidences for the involvement of membrane-associated, both extrinsic and amphitropic, proteins as well as membrane-active phosphohydrolytic enzymes and sphingolipids in driving lateral segregation of phase domains thus determining long-range surface topography.
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- Bruno Maggio
- Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba - CONICET, Argentina.
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Patel RY, Balaji PV. Characterization of the conformational and orientational dynamics of ganglioside GM1 in a dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine bilayer by molecular dynamics simulations. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2007; 1768:1628-40. [PMID: 17408589 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2007.02.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2007] [Revised: 02/10/2007] [Accepted: 02/23/2007] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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The structure and dynamics of a single GM1 (Gal5-beta1,3-GalNAc4-beta1,4-(NeuAc3-alpha2,3)-Gal2-beta1,4-Glc1-beta1,1-Cer) embedded in a DPPC bilayer have been studied by MD simulations. Eleven simulations, each of 10 ns productive run, were performed with different initial conformations of GM1. Simulations of GM1-Os in water and of a DPPC bilayer were also performed to delineate the effects of the bilayer and GM1 on the conformational and orientational dynamics of each other. The conformation of the GM1 headgroup observed in the simulations is in agreement with those reported in literature; but the headgroup is restricted when embedded in the bilayer. NeuAc3 is the outermost saccharide towards the water phase. Glc1 and Gal2 prefer a parallel, and NeuAc3, GalNac4 and Gal5 prefer a perpendicular, orientation with respect to the bilayer normal. The overall characteristics of the bilayer are not affected by the presence of GM1; however, GM1 does influence the DPPC molecules in its immediate vicinity. The implications of these observations on the specific recognition and binding of GM1 embedded in a lipid bilayer by exogenous proteins as well as proteins embedded in lipids have been discussed.
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- Ronak Y Patel
- School of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India
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Maggio B, Fanani ML, Rosetti CM, Wilke N. Biophysics of sphingolipids II. Glycosphingolipids: An assortment of multiple structural information transducers at the membrane surface. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2006; 1758:1922-44. [PMID: 16780791 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2006.04.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2005] [Revised: 04/11/2006] [Accepted: 04/25/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Glycosphingolipids are ubiquitous components of animal cell membranes. They are constituted by the basic structure of ceramide with its hydroxyl group linked to single carbohydrates or oligosaccharide chains of different complexity. The combination of the properties of their hydrocarbon moiety with those derived from the variety and complexity of their hydrophilic polar head groups confers to these lipids an extraordinary capacity for molecular-to-supramolecular transduction across the lateral/transverse planes in biomembranes and beyond. In our opinion, most of the advances made over the last decade on the biophysical behavior of glycosphingolipids can be organized into three related aspects of increasing structural complexity: (1) intrinsic codes: local molecular interactions of glycosphingolipids translated into structural self-organization. (2) Surface topography: projection of molecular shape and miscibility of glycosphingolipids into formation of coexisting membrane domains. (3) Beyond the membrane interface: glycosphingolipid as modulators of structural topology, bilayer recombination and surface biocatalysis.
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- Bruno Maggio
- Departamento de Química Biológica - CIQUIBIC, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba - CONICET, Haya de la Torre y Medina Allende, Ciudad Universitaria, X5000HUA Córdoba, Argentina.
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Hirai M, Iwase H, Hayakawa T, Koizumi M, Takahashi H. Determination of asymmetric structure of ganglioside-DPPC mixed vesicle using SANS, SAXS, and DLS. Biophys J 2003; 85:1600-10. [PMID: 12944276 PMCID: PMC1303335 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(03)74591-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Functions of mammalian cell membrane microdomains being rich in glycosphingolipids, so-called rafts, are now one of the current hot topics in cell biology from the intimate relation to cell adhesion and signaling. However, little is known about the role of glycosphingolipids in the formation and stability of the domains. By the use of the inverse contrast variation method in small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), combined with small-angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) and dynamic light scattering (DLS), we have determined an asymmetric internal structure of the bilayer of the small unilamellar vesicle (SUV) of monosialoganglioside (G(M1))-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) mixture ([G(M1)]:[DPPC] = 0.1:1). A direct method using a shell-model fitting with a size distribution function describes consistently all experimental results of SANS, SAXS, and DLS. We have found that G(M1) molecules predominantly localize at SUV outer surface to form a highly hydrophilic layer which is dehydrated with the rise of temperature from 25 degrees C to 55 degrees C accompanied by the conformational change of the oligosaccharide chains. The average SUV size determined is approximately 200 A, which is comparable to the reported value 260 +/- 130 A of glycosphingolipids microdomains. The present results suggest that the preferential asymmetric distribution of gangliosides is essential to define the size and stability of the domains.
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- Mitsuhiro Hirai
- Department of Physics, Gunma University, Maebashi 371-8510, Japan.
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Pincelli MM, Levstein PR, Fidelio GD, Gennaro AM. Cholesterol-induced alterations of the packing properties of gangliosides: an EPR study. Chem Phys Lipids 2000; 104:193-206. [PMID: 10669311 DOI: 10.1016/s0009-3084(99)00127-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The effect of cholesterol (Chol) on two kinds of glycolipid assemblies, one composed of monosialogangliosides (GM1a) and the other formed by a natural mixture of bovine brain gangliosides (TBG), has been analysed. The experimental approach involves spin label electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) in aqueous lipid dispersions. The employment of a hydrosoluble spin label and a 'quencher' of the EPR signal that is not able to permeate lipid interfaces, allowed us to conclude that GM1a/Chol mixtures give rise to vesicles at Chol proportions for which TBG/Chol mixtures form micelles. The use of different liposoluble spin labels reveals that cholesterol produces a straightening of the hydrocarbon chains in both lipid systems. In GM1a/Chol mixtures, this feature is more pronounced and it is coupled with a decrease in polarity at the chain ends.
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- M M Pincelli
- Facultad de Matemática, Astronomía y Física, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, Argentina
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Pincelli MM, Levstein PR, Martı́n CA, Fidelio GD. Cholesterol-induced stabilization of lamellar structures in ganglioside-containing lipid aggregates. A 31P-NMR study. Chem Phys Lipids 1998. [DOI: 10.1016/s0009-3084(98)00050-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Bagatolli LA, Gratton E, Fidelio GD. Water dynamics in glycosphingolipid aggregates studied by LAURDAN fluorescence. Biophys J 1998; 75:331-41. [PMID: 9649390 PMCID: PMC1299702 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(98)77517-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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We have characterized the fluorescence properties of 6-dodecanoyl-2-dimethylamine-naphthalene (LAURDAN) in pure interfaces formed by sphingomyelin and 10 chemically related glycosphingolipids (GSLs).1 The GSLs contain neutral and anionic carbohydrate residues in their oligosaccharide chain. These systems were studied at temperatures below, at, or above the main phase transition temperature of the pure lipid aggregates. The extent of solvent dipolar relaxation around the excited fluorescence probe in the GSLs series increases with the magnitude of the glycosphingolipid polar headgroup below the transition temperature. This conclusion is based on LAURDAN's excitation generalized polarization (GPex) and fluorescence lifetime values found in the different interfaces. A linear dependence between the LAURDAN GPex and the intermolecular spacing among the lipid molecules was found for both neutral and anionic lipids in the GSLs series. This relationship was also followed by phospholipids. We conclude that LAURDAN in these lipid aggregates resides in sites containing different amounts of water. The dimension of these sites increases with the size of the GSLs polar headgroup. The GP function reports on the concentration and dynamics of water molecules in these sites. Upon addition of cholesterol to Gg4Cer, the fluorescence behavior of LAURDAN was similar to that of pure cerebrosides and sphingomyelin vesicles. This observation was attributed to a change in the interfacial hydration as well as changes in the shape and size of the Gg4Cer aggregates in the presence of cholesterol. After the addition of cholesterol to gangliosides, the changes in the LAURDAN's spectral parameters decrease progressively as the polar headgroup of these lipids becomes more complex. This finding suggests that the dehydration effect of cholesterol depends strongly on the curvature radius and the extent of hydration of these lipid aggregates. In the gel phase of phrenosine, GalCer, Gg3Cer, sulfatide, and sphingomyelin, the excitation red band (410 nm) of LAURDAN was reduced with respect to that of LAURDAN in the gel phase of pure phospholipids. This observation indicates a local environment that interacts differently with the ground state of LAURDAN in GSLs when compared with LAURDAN in phospholipids.
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- L A Bagatolli
- Departamento de Química Biológica-CIQUIBIC, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina.
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