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Cooper RS, Altenberg GA. Association/dissociation of the nucleotide-binding domains of the ATP-binding cassette protein MsbA measured during continuous hydrolysis. J Biol Chem 2013; 288:20785-20796. [PMID: 23723071 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m113.477976] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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In ATP-binding cassette proteins, the two nucleotide-binding domains (NBDs) work as dimers to bind and hydrolyze ATP, but the molecular mechanism of nucleotide hydrolysis is controversial. It is still unresolved whether hydrolysis leads to dissociation of the ATP-induced dimers or partial opening of the dimers such that the NBDs remain in contact during the hydrolysis cycle. We studied the bacterial lipid flippase MsbA by luminescence resonance energy transfer (LRET). The LRET signal between optical probes reacted with single-cysteine mutants was employed to follow NBD association/dissociation in real time. The intermonomer distances calculated from LRET data indicate that the NBDs separate completely following ATP hydrolysis, even in the presence of mm MgATP, and that the dissociation occurs following each hydrolysis cycle. The results support association/dissociation, as opposed to constant contact models, for the mode of operation of ATP-binding cassette proteins.
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- Rebecca S Cooper
- From the Department of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, and Center for Membrane Protein Research, Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas 79430-6551
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- From the Department of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics, and Center for Membrane Protein Research, Texas Tech Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas 79430-6551.
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Vaze A, Rusling JF. Microemulsion-controlled reaction sites in biocatalytic films for electrochemical reduction of vicinal dibromides. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2006; 22:10788-95. [PMID: 17129061 DOI: 10.1021/la061138j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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We report herein the electrochemical dehalogenation of vicinal dibromides in microemulsions using cross-linked films of the redox protein myoglobin (Mb) and poly-l-lysine (PLL) covalently bonded to carbon electrodes. Catalytic reduction of the dibromides to olefins was more efficient in an SDS microemulsion than in a CTAB microemulsion. SDS shifts the Mb redox potential more negative, but a comparison to Mb-SDS films suggests that the activation free energy of the reduction is controlled by an inner-sphere mechanism. SDS also enters the positively charged Mb-PLL films and preconcentrates the dibromide reactants, enhancing catalytic efficiency in SDS microemulsions. Shifts in formal potential and Soret absorbance bands for Mb-PLL films suggested binding of trans-1,2-dibromocyclohexane in the iron heme distal pocket with little catalysis. Results are consistent with active catalytic reduction sites for reactant bound on the protein surface and less-reactive sites in the distal heme pocket. Preconcentration into catalytic PLL films using SDS incorporated from microemulsions may be a general way to improve catalytic efficiency for nonpolar reactants in microemulsions.
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- Abhay Vaze
- Department of Chemistry, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3060, USA
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Li N, Xu JZ, Yao H, Zhu JJ, Chen HY. The Direct Electron Transfer of Myoglobin Based on the Electron Tunneling in Proteins. J Phys Chem B 2006; 110:11561-5. [PMID: 16771432 DOI: 10.1021/jp060653n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The electron tunneling of the protein-polypeptide interactions was observed in the study of direct electron transfer of the myoglobin (Mb) on the electrode surface. The Mb was selected as a redox active protein and gelatine was selected to couple with Mb to form an electron tunneling. The electrochemical results indicated the presence of the electron tunneling and the direct electron transfer. The circular dichroism spectra suggested that the beta-sheet chain of gelatine could interact with alpha-helical chain to form an electron tunneling to promote the protein direct electrochemistry. The SDS-PAGE results proved that the electron tunneling between Mb and gelatine was noncovalent hydrogen bonds. The immobilized Mb showed a couple of quasi-reversible redox peaks with a formal potential of -0.37V (vs SCE) in 0.1 M pH 7.0 PBS. The modified electrodes displayed a rapid amperometric response to the reduction of oxygen, H2O2, and nitrite.
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- Nan Li
- Key Lab of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, Department of Chemistry, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, PR China
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Bylaska EJ, Dixon DA, Felmy AR, Tratnyek PG. One-Electron Reduction of Substituted Chlorinated Methanes As Determined from ab Initio Electronic Structure Theory. J Phys Chem A 2002. [DOI: 10.1021/jp021327k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Eric J. Bylaska
- William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, and OGI School of Science & Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, 20000 NW Walker Road, Beaverton, Oregon 97006-8921
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- William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, and OGI School of Science & Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, 20000 NW Walker Road, Beaverton, Oregon 97006-8921
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- William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, and OGI School of Science & Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, 20000 NW Walker Road, Beaverton, Oregon 97006-8921
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- William R. Wiley Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, P.O. Box 999, Richland, Washington 99352, and OGI School of Science & Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, 20000 NW Walker Road, Beaverton, Oregon 97006-8921
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Nassar AEF, Zhang Z, Hu N, Rusling JF, Kumosinski TF. Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer from Electrodes to Myoglobin in Ordered Biomembrane-like Films. J Phys Chem B 1997. [DOI: 10.1021/jp962896t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 208] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Alaa-Eldin F. Nassar
- Department of Chemistry, Box U-60, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-4060
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- Department of Chemistry, Box U-60, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-4060
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- Department of Chemistry, Box U-60, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-4060
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- Department of Chemistry, Box U-60, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269-4060
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- Eastern Regional Research Center, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19118
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Rhee SK, Bevans CG, Harris AL. Channel-forming activity of immunoaffinity-purified connexin32 in single phospholipid membranes. Biochemistry 1996; 35:9212-23. [PMID: 8703927 DOI: 10.1021/bi960295m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Connexin32, a member of the family of proteins that forms gap junction channels between cells, was immunoaffinity-purified from rat liver using a monoclonal antibody, under nondenaturing conditions and reconstituted into unilamellar phospholipid liposomes and bilayers. Gel-filtration studies indicate that the connexin32 is purified predominantly in structures of a size consistent with that of single hemichannels and too small to be junctional channels (dimers of hemichannels). Purified connexin formed channels permeable to sucrose and to Lucifer Yellow. The permeability was reversibly reduced by acidic pH and unaffected by several agents that modulate coupling between cells. Modeling of the distribution of the permeability in the liposomes indicates that it is mediated by connexin structures that distribute among the liposomes as single hemichannels. Bilayer recordings of the purified connexin show high conductance channels with asymmetric voltage sensitivity. The results show that immunopurified connexin32 can form channels, in single phospholipid membranes, that have permeability similar to that of gap junction channels and thus can be utilized in studies of permeability and its regulation to investigate its role in normal physiological function, development, and disease.
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- S K Rhee
- Department of Biology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA
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Plesniak LA, Yu L, Dennis EA. Conformation of micellar phospholipid bound to the active site of phospholipase A2. Biochemistry 1995; 34:4943-51. [PMID: 7711016 DOI: 10.1021/bi00015a005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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Transferred NOE techniques have been used to determine the structure of phospholipid analogues bound to the active site of cobra venom phospholipase A2 (PLA2). These experiments were carried out on PLA2 with a substrate analogue which serves as an inhibitor, 1-(hexylthio)-2-(nonanoylamino)-1,2-dideoxy-sn-glycero-3-pho sphocholine (PC9). Because this inhibitor binds tightly to the enzyme and forms micelles at millimolar concentrations, experiments could be carried out to determine the conformation of the inhibitor when bound to the enzyme at the lipid-water interface. NOEs of the micellar lipid develop inefficiently in the absence of enzyme. NOESY experiments in the presence of PLA2 were used to determine the inhibitor structure and conformation when bound to the enzyme. The inhibitor adopts an active site conformation in which the end of the sn-2 chain is within 5 A of the alpha-methylene protons of the sn-1 chain. However, NOE cross-peaks in the experiments indicate that the backbone conformation of the bound lipid is different from that of a shorter chain lipid which forms monomers [Plesniak et al. (1993) Biochemistry 32, 5009-5016].
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- L A Plesniak
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0601, USA
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Vever-Bizet C, Brault D. Kinetics of incorporation of porphyrins into small unilamellar vesicles. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1993; 1153:170-4. [PMID: 8274486 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(93)90402-l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The kinetics of hematoporphyrin or deuteroporphyrin incorporation in egg phosphatidylcholine small unilamellar vesicles have been investigated by fluorescence stopped-flow measurements. The processes can be described by a fast equilibrium. The on-rate constant is nearly diffusion controlled regardless of the compound used and the pH. The affinity of these porphyrins for the vesicles is merely governed by the exit rate which depends on the structure of the porphyrin and on its charge determined by pH.
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- C Vever-Bizet
- Laboratoire de Biophysique, INSERM U. 201, CNRS U.A. 481, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France
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Harris AL, Walter A, Zimmerberg J. Transport-specific isolation of large channels reconstituted into lipid vesicles. J Membr Biol 1989; 109:243-50. [PMID: 2477547 DOI: 10.1007/bf01870281] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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To develop a technique for purifying and identifying pore-forming membrane proteins, we used a transport-specific increase in buoyant density to select for lipid vesicles containing voltage-dependent anion channels (VDAC). Monodisperse, single-walled vesicles were formed by gel filtration from a detergent-solubilized mixture of lipid and protein in a urea buffer. The vesicles were layered on a linear iso-osmolar density gradient formed of urea and sucrose buffers. Since VDAC is open at zero trans-membrane voltage and is permeable to urea and sucrose, vesicles containing functional VDAC should become more dense as sucrose enters and urea leaves, while those lacking open channels should maintain their original density. Vesicles formed in the absence of VDAC migrated to a characteristic density, while vesicles formed in the presence of VDAC fractionated into two populations in the gradients, one migrating to the same density as the vesicles formed without VDAC, and one at a significantly greater density. In contrast to the lower density vesicles, the higher density vesicles showed a high permeability to calcein, and contained functional VDAC channels (shown by electrophysiological recordings following fusion with a planar bilayer). Thus, vesicles containing open channels were separable from those that did not by a transport-specific shift in density. This technique may be useful for the enrichment of channels of known permeability properties from impure material.
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- A L Harris
- Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218
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Urbina JA, Cohen BE, Perozo E, Cornivelli L. Spin-labeled amphotericin B: synthesis, characterization, biological and spectroscopic properties. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1987; 897:467-73. [PMID: 3028486 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(87)90443-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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A biologically active spin-labeled derivative of amphotericin B has been synthesized by the nucleophilic addition of amphotericin B to 4-(2-iodoacetamido)-2,2',6,6'-tetramethylpiperadine-N-oxyl in dimethyl-sulphoxide at 40 degrees C. The derivative is a moderately water-soluble compound which displays the same biological activity of the parental compound against the sensitive organism Leishmania mexicana; also, the rates of proton-cation exchange induced by the two compounds in large unilamellar liposomes are indistinguishable. The ESR spectra of spin-labeled amphotericin B in lipid vesicles indicate a high degree of motion, very similar to that encountered for the compound in aqueous solutions at neutral pH and in deoxycholate micelles, and suggest that the structures formed by the antibiotic in membranes are composed by a small number of molecules. In contrast, the spectra of the labeled antibiotic in ethanol, diethyl ether and dimethylformamide indicate restricted motion and exchange interactions, probably resulting from the micellar aggregation induced in these media. Ascorbate at 10 mM is able to reduce completely the nitroxide group of the labeled antibiotic in lipid vesicles in less than 30 s, indicating that an asymmetric disposition of the antibiotic molecules across the membrane is capable of inducing its biological and ionophoric properties. Ni2+ and Cu2+ produce moderate exchange broadening of the ESR signal of spin-labeled amphotericin B in lipid vesicles; the comparison of this phenomenom with the exchange broadening produced by the same ions in the ESR spectrum of 2,2',6,6'-tetramethylpiperidine-N-oxyl in water solution suggests an specific Cu2+-amphotericin B interaction in membranes.
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Goll J, Carlson FD, Barenholz Y, Litman BJ, Thompson TE. Photon correlation spectroscopic study of the size distribution of phospholipid vesicles. Biophys J 1982; 38:7-13. [PMID: 7074200 PMCID: PMC1328807 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(82)84524-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023] Open
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The dependence of phospholipid vesicle size on lipid composition is investigated by photon correlation spectroscopy. For each lipid composition prolonged ultracentrifugation was used to isolate a nearly uniform population of minimum-sized vesicles. The residual size variations in the samples were sufficient to cause polydispersity that made comparisons between samples difficult. Analyses of the data by the method of cumulants and by a method for approximating the particle size distributions directly are presented. The latter method made possible unambiguous comparisons that revealed small but systematic dependences of vesicle size on composition in vesicles containing mixtures of egg phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine, egg phosphatidylcholine and beef brain sphingomyelin, and in single lipid vesicles of egg phosphatidylcholine, dioleylphosphatidylcholine, and beef brain sphingomyelin. These size dependences are quantified within the resolution limits of the technique and their implications are discussed.
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Transfer of the polyene antibiotic amphotericin B between single-walled vesicles of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine and egg-yolk phosphatidylcholine. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 1981. [DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(81)90252-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Prigent Y, Trandinh S, Gary-Bobo CM. Proton gradient across membranes of lecithin vesicles as measured by 31P-NMR: asymmetrical behaviour of internal and external layers. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1980; 95:1218-23. [PMID: 7417310 DOI: 10.1016/0006-291x(80)91603-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Action of cobra venom phospholipase A2 on the gel and liquid crystalline states of dimyristoyl and dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine vesicles. J Biol Chem 1979. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)50489-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Lindsey H, Petersen NO, Chan SI. Physicochemical characterization of 1,2-diphytanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine in model membrane systems. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1979; 555:147-67. [PMID: 476096 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(79)90079-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 132] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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We report here on a series of studies aimed at characterization of the structural and dynamical properties of the synthetic lipid diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine, in multilamellar dispersions and vesicle suspensions. The lipid exhibits no detectable gel to liquid crystalline phase transition over a large temperature range (-120 degrees C to +120 degrees C). Examination of proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) free induction decays obtained from multilayer dispersions of diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine provided an estimate of the methylene proton order parameter. The estimated magnitude of 0.21 is comparable to those determined for other phospholipids. Sonication of aqueous dispersions of diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine led to formation of bilayer vesicles as determined by the measurement of the outer/inner choline methyl proton resonances, vesicle sizes in electron micrographs, and comparison of proton NMR linewidths between multilayer and sonicated dispersions. Ultracentrifugation studies of diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine vesicles in H2O and 2H2O media yielded a value of 1.013 +/- 0.026 ml/g for the partial specific volume of this lipid. We have measured spin lattice relaxation rates for the methyl and methylenemethyne protons of the hydrocarbon chains of diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine in bilayer vesicles over a range of temperatures and at two NMR frequencies (100 and 220 MHz). The observed relaxation rates for the methylene protons in this system were approximately twice those previously reported for dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine at comparable temperatures and resonance frequencies, whereas the relaxation rates measured for the methyl protons were greater than those of the straight chain lipid by an order of magnitude. Measurement of the spin lattice relaxation rates of the hydrocarbon protons of the diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine in a 10 mol% mixture of the branched-chain lipid in a deuterated host lipid, diperdeuteropalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine, showed a discontinuity in the temperature dependence of the proton NMR longitudinal relaxation rates of the branched-chain lipid in the region of the gel to liquid crystalline phase transition temperature of the deuterated dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine host lipid. This result may be taken as evidence of lateral phase separation of a liquid cyrstalline phase enriched in diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine from a gel phase enriched in diperdeuteropalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine at temperatures below the phase transition temperature of deuterated host lipid. This conclusion is supported by the observation of an abrupt change in the hydrocarbon methylene linewidth (at 100 MHz) of 10 mol% diphytanoyl phosphatidylcholine in diperdeuteropalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine over the temperature range where lateral phase separation is taking place according to differential thermograms.
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Goll JH, Stock GB. Determination by photon correlation spectroscopy of particle size distributions in lipid vesicle suspensions. Biophys J 1977; 19:265-73. [PMID: 890039 PMCID: PMC1473325 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(77)85586-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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A method of determining particle size distributions in lipid vesicle preparations is outlined. A vesicle suspension is modeled as a polydisperse mixture of spherical shells. The distribution of particle sizes in this mixture is approximated by a continuous, piecewise linear function called a first-order spline. Excellent simultaneous fits to photon correlation spectroscopy data gathered at several different angles are presented. An error analysis is included to indicate the resolution of the method.
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Hutton WC, Yeagle PL, Martin RB. The interaction of lanthanide and calcium salts with phospholipid bilayer vesicles: the validity of the nuclear magnetic resonance method for determination of vesicle bilayer phospholipid surface ratios. Chem Phys Lipids 1977; 19:255-65. [PMID: 890868 DOI: 10.1016/0009-3084(77)90047-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Contrary to a recent report (B. Sears et al., Biochemistry 15 (1976) 1635), it has been determined that the ratio of the number of phospholipids on the inner and outer surfaces of phospholipid bilayer vesicles can be accurately determined by NMR paramagnetic ion shift reagent studies of vesicles. It is concluded that the metal interacts with all of the phospholipid on the exposed bilayer surface. A ratio of outer phospholipid to inner surface phospholipid of 2.1 +/- 0.1 is obtained regardless of the nucleus studied, position of the nucleus relative to the metal ion binding site, molar ratio of metal to phospholipid over three orders of magnitude, or location of the metal ion of the inside or outside of the vesicle. Additionally, P-31 NMR studies using LaC13 and CaC12 indicate that Ca2+ weakly interacts with egg PC vesicles and that the lanthanides are adequate substitutes for Ca2+ since neither metal is found to perturb measurably the average polar head group conformation.
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Barenholz Y, Gibbes D, Litman BJ, Goll J, Thompson TE, Carlson RD. A simple method for the preparation of homogeneous phospholipid vesicles. Biochemistry 1977; 16:2806-10. [PMID: 889789 DOI: 10.1021/bi00631a035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 744] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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A new method is described for the preparation of homogeneously sized, single-lamellar phospholipid vesicles. This method, wich is based on differential high-speed ultracentrifugation, has the advantages of a higher vesicle yield without dilution and rapidity of preparation when compared to the molecular-sieve technique. The homogeneity of vesicle dispersions, prepared by this new method, is examined by several physical techniques and found to be comparable to the best samples prepared by molecular-sieve chromatography.
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Marinetti GV, Love R. Interaction of membrane aminophospholipids of E. coli with fluorodinitrobenzene and trinitrobenzenesulfonate. Chem Phys Lipids 1977; 18:170-80. [PMID: 322884 DOI: 10.1016/0009-3084(77)90004-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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E. coli cells were reacted with TNBS in bicarbonate-NaCl buffer, pH 8.5 (buffer A) and in phosphate-NaCl buffer, pH 7.0 (buffer B). In buffer A, DNP-GPE is the major product when FDNB is used. DNP-PE and DNP-LPE are formed in lesser amounts. Phospholipase A activity is high in buffer A. When TNBS is used, the labeling of the lipid components is less than with FDNB and more TNP-PE is formed relative to TNP-GPE. This data suggests that the phospholipases which are located primarily on the outer L-membrane of the cell wall act to a lesser extent on TNP-PE than on DNP-PE. E. coli cells were prelabeled with TNBS and FDNB in buffer A, washed and incubated in buffer A. The endogenous labeled DNP-PE gradually decreased with time with a concomitant increase in DNP-LPE and DNP-GPE due to phospholipase A activity. In contrast, the endogenous labeled TNP-PE also decreased with time as did the endogenous labeled TNP-LPE but a new orange lipid was produced. This lipid is believed to be a derivative of TNP-PE in which one of the nitro groups has been reduced to an amino group by nitroreductase. E. coli cells were prelabeled with TNBS and FDNB in buffer A, washed and incubated in buffer B. Under these conditions with both TNBS and FDNB there is an increase in TNP-PE and DNP-PE with a concomitant decrease in TNP-LPE, TNP-GPE, DNP-LPE and DNP-GPE. These results show that at neutral pH acylation occurs to regenerate TNP-PE and DNP-PE. E. coli cells were incubated with exogenous DNP-GPE or TNP-GPE in buffer A. The DNP-GPE and TNP-GPE were rapidly hydrolyzed by a phosphodiesterase to DNP-ethanolamine and TNP-ethanolamine. An orange derivative was formed which was provisionally identified as a derivative of DNP-ethanolamine or TNP-ethanolamine in which a nitro group has been reduced to an amino group by nitroreductase. The phospholipases and acylating enzymes present in the cell wall of E. coli are active on the dinitrophenyl and trinitrophenyl derivatives of PE and LPE and may act in concert to model and repair the plasma membrane.
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Solomon B, Miller IR. Interaction of glucose oxidase with phospholipid vesicles. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1976; 455:332-42. [PMID: 999918 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(76)90309-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The interactions between glucose oxidase and phospholipid vesicles were investigated. The investigations were carried on molecules adsorbed on the outer surfaces as well as entrapped in the interior of the vesicles . The adsorption of glucose oxidase on the surfaces of egg egg licithin vesicles, containing varying amounts of cholesterol and stearoylamine was measured by determining the free fraction of glucose oxidase detected in the filtrates. In general an enhancement of enzymic activity was observed upon interaction with the vesicles. The enhancement depends on the lipid composition of the vesicles and the surface concentration of the adsorbed glucose oxidase. It reached a maximal value at a surface concentration of 1.4-10(11) molecules/cm2 (approximately 7.1 - 10(4) A2/molecule) on pure phosphatidylcholine vesicles and about 6.5 - 10(10) molecules/cm2 (approximately 16 - 10(4) A2/molecule) when the vesicles contained cholesterol or cholesterol and stearoylamine. CD measurements indicated that the change in enzymic activity of the adsorbed glucose oxidase was accompanied by conformational modification of the enzyme. In order to entrap glucose oxidase into the vesicles, the lipid was sonicated in the presence of the enzyme. After removal of the free and adsorbed enzyme the amount of the entrapped enzyme was determined by measuring its activity after disintegration of the vesicles with Triton. The enzymic activity of the entrapped glucose oxidase served as a measure for the permeability of the bilayer membrane of the lipid vesicles to glucose. Addition of insulin to the suspension of vesicles containing the entrapped glucose oxidase increased the permeability of glucose by up to 9 - 10(-8) cm/s. This value is the lowest estimate based on the assumption that one glucose oxidase molecule was entrapped in every vesicle.
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Morrisett JD, Pownall HJ, Gotto AM. Interaction of apoliprotein C-III with phosphatidylcholine vesicles. Dependence of aproprotein-phospholipid complex formation on vesicle structure. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1976; 486:36-46. [PMID: 188485 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(77)90067-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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We have studied the interaction of an apolipoprotein from human very low density lipoproteins (apoC-III) with egg yolk phosphatidylcholine in the form of single- and multi-bilayer vesicles. The reactivity of single-bilayer vesicles with apoC-III appears to be greater than that of the multi-bilayer vesicles according to several thermodynamic and spectrosconic criteria. In the complexes formed by the association of apoC-III with single-bilayer vesicles, the alpha-helical content of the peptide backbone and the apolarity of the environment around the tryptophan residues are greater than that observed in the complexes formed with the multibilayer vesicles. A higher yield and more homogeneous density distribution of lipid-apoprotein complexes results from the interaction of apoC-III with the single-bilayer vesicles relative to those obtained with the multi-bilayer vesicles. The enthalpy of association of apoC-III with phospholipid was greater for the single-shelled vesicles (25 kcal/mol apoC-III) than for the multi-shelled ones (18 kcal/mol apoC-III). The difference in reactivity of these two types of liposomes is not due to a difference in their fluidities since their fatty acid compositions are identical, but may be due to a difference in their areas of sterically accessible phospholipid, their permeabilities to the apoprotein, their radii of curvation, or a combination of these factors.
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Holloway PW, Katz JT. Effect of cytochrome b5 on the size, density, and permeability of phosphatidylcholine vesicles. J Biol Chem 1975. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)40685-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022] Open
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Andrews SB, Hoffman RM, Borison A. Variations of size and distribution in suspensions of sonicated phospholipid bilayers. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 1975; 65:913-20. [PMID: 1171690 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-291x(75)80472-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The homogeneous, single-walled phosphatidylcholine-cholesterol mixed vesicles were prepared by ultrasonic irradiation of egg phosphatidylcholine in the presence of various amounts of cholesterol in solution at 4 degrees under a nitrogen atmosphere followed by molecular sieve chromatography on a Sepharose 4B column. Physicochemical studies performed on these systems invluding sedimentation velocity, diffusion, partial specific volume, intrinsic viscosity, and trapped volume measurements allowed estimation of the weight-average vesicle weight, the vesicle shape, and bilayer membrane thickness of the binary mixture of phosphatidylcholine and cholesterol. Vesicle hydration was calculated using two different methods and the agreement between them was excellent up to cholesterol concentration of 0.32 mole fraction. It was observed that the structural parameters change slowly with increasing cholesterol content up to around 0.3 mole fraction and a relatively abrupt structural alteration occurs above this cholesterol content. This abrupt structural change is consistent with the asymmetrical distribution of lipid composition between the inner and outer bilayer face.
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David JS, Thompson GR, Gotto AM, Morrisett JD. Interaction of human plasma apolipoproteins and phospholipids. Semi-quantitative studies using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1975; 398:72-83. [PMID: 1170895 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(75)90170-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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Morrisett JD, Gallagher JG, Aune KC, Gotto AM. Structure of the major complex formed by interaction of phosphatidylcholine bilamellar vesicles and apolipoprotein-alanine (APO-C-III). Biochemistry 1974; 13:4765-71. [PMID: 4371819 DOI: 10.1021/bi00720a013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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