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Chaudhury A, Swarnakar S, Pattnaik GP, Varshney GK, Chakraborty H, Basu JK. Peptide-Induced Fusion of Dynamic Membrane Nanodomains: Implications in a Viral Entry. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023; 39:17713-17722. [PMID: 38031897 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c02230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2023]
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Enveloped viruses infect host cells via protein-mediated membrane fusion. However, insights into the microscopic rearrangement induced by the viral proteins and peptides have not yet emerged. Here, we report a new methodology to extract viral fusion peptide (FP)-mediated biomembrane dynamical nanodomain fusion parameter, λ, based on stimulated emission depletion microscopy coupled with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy. We also define another dynamical parameter membrane gradient, defined in terms of the ratio of average lipid diffusion coefficients across dynamic crossover length scales, ξ. Significantly, we observe that λ as well as these mobility gradients are larger in the stiffer liquid-ordered (Lo) phase compared to the liquid-disordered phase and are more effective at the smaller nanodomain interfaces, which are only present in the Lo phase. The results could possibly help to resolve a long-standing puzzle about the enhanced fusogenicity of FP in the Lo phase. Results obtained from the diffusion results have been correlated with the human immunodeficiency virus gp41 FP-induced membrane fusion.
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- Anurag Chaudhury
- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012, India
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012, India
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012, India
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- School of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, Jyoti Vihar, Burla, Odisha 768019, India
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560012, India
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Chelladurai R, Debnath K, Jana NR, Basu JK. Spontaneous formation and growth kinetics of lipid nanotubules induced by passive nanoparticles. SOFT MATTER 2022; 18:7082-7090. [PMID: 36043324 DOI: 10.1039/d2sm00900e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Lipid nanotubules (LNTs) are conduits that form on the membranes of cells and organelles, and they are ubiquitous in all forms of life from archaea and bacteria to plants and mammals. The formation, shape and dynamics of these LNTs are critical for cellular functions, supporting the transport of myriad cellular cargoes as well as communication within and between cells, and they are also widely believed to be responsible for exploitation of host cells by pathogens for the spread of infection and diseases. In vitro kinetic control of LNT formation can considerably enhance the scope of utilization of these structures for disease control and therapy. Here we report a new paradigm for spontaneous lipid nanotubulation, capturing the dynamical regimes of growth, stabilization and retraction of the tubes through the binding of synthetic nanoparticles on supported lipid bilayers (SLBs). The tubulation is determined by the spontaneous binding-unbinding of nanoparticles on the LNTs. The presented methodology could be used to rectify malfunctioning cellular tubules or to prevent the pathogenic spread of diseases through inhibition of cell-to-cell nanotubule formation.
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- Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India
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- Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India
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Ilangumaran Ponmalar I, Swain J, Basu JK. Escherichia coli response to subinhibitory concentrations of colistin: insights from a study of membrane dynamics and morphology. Biomater Sci 2022; 10:2609-2617. [PMID: 35411890 DOI: 10.1039/d2bm00037g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Prevalence of widespread bacterial infections brings forth a critical need to understand the molecular mechanisms of the antibiotics as well as the bacterial response to those antibiotics. Improper use of antibiotics, which can be in sub-lethal concentrations is one among the multiple reasons for acquiring antibiotic resistance which makes it vital to understand the bacterial response towards sub-lethal concentrations of antibiotics. In this work, we have used colistin, a well-known membrane active antibiotic used to treat severe bacterial infections and explored the impact of its sub-minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) on the lipid membrane dynamics and morphological changes of E. coli. Upon investigation of live cell membrane properties such as lipid dynamics using fluorescence correlation spectroscopy, we observed that colistin disrupts the lipid membrane at sub-MIC by altering the lipid diffusivity. Interestingly, filamentation-like cell elongation was observed upon colistin treatment which led to further exploration of surface morphology with the help of atomic force spectroscopy. The changes in the surface roughness upon colistin treatment provides additional insight on the colistin-membrane interaction corroborating with the altered lipid diffusion. Although altered lipid dynamics could be attributed to an outcome of lipid rearrangement due to direct disruption by antibiotic molecules on the membrane or an indirect consequence of disruptions in lipid biosynthetic pathways, we were able to ascertain that altered bacterial membrane dynamics is due to direct disruptions. Our results provide a broad overview on the consequence of the cyclic polypeptide colistin on membrane-specific lipid dynamics and morphology of a live Gram-negative bacterial cell.
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560012, India.
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560012, India.
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Srivastava A, Malik S, Karmakar S, Debnath A. Dynamic coupling of a hydration layer to a fluid phospholipid membrane: intermittency and multiple time-scale relaxations. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2020; 22:21158-21168. [DOI: 10.1039/d0cp02803g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Understanding the coupling of a hydration layer and a lipid membrane is crucial to gaining access to membrane dynamics and understanding its functionality towards various biological processes.
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- Abhinav Srivastava
- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
- Rajasthan
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
- Rajasthan
- India
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- Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences
- Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
- Hyderabad 500107
- India
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- Department of Chemistry
- Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
- Rajasthan
- India
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Srivastava A, Karmakar S, Debnath A. Quantification of spatio-temporal scales of dynamical heterogeneity of water near lipid membranes above supercooling. SOFT MATTER 2019; 15:9805-9815. [PMID: 31746927 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm01725a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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A hydrated 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphorylcholine (DMPC) lipid membrane is investigated using an all atom molecular dynamics simulation at 308 K to determine the physical sources of universal slow relaxations of hydration layers and length-scale of the spatially heterogeneous dynamics. Continuously residing interface water (IW) molecules hydrogen bonded to different moieties of lipid heads in the membrane are identified. The non-Gaussian parameters of all classes of IW molecules show a cross-over from cage vibration to translational diffusion. A significant non-Gaussianity is observed for the IW molecules exhibiting large length correlations in translational van Hove functions. Two time-scales for the ballistic motions and hopping transitions are obtained from the self intermediate scattering functions of the IW molecules with an additional long relaxation, which disappears for bulk water. The long relaxation time-scales for the IW molecules obtained from the self intermediate scattering functions are in good accordance with the hydrogen bond relaxation time-scales irrespective of the nature of the chemical confinement and the confinement lifetime. Employing a block analysis approach, the length-scale of dynamical heterogeneities is captured from a transition from non-Gaussianity to Gaussianity in van Hove correlation functions of the IW molecules. The heterogeneity length-scale is comparable to the wave-length of the small and weak undulations of the membrane calculated by Fourier transforms of lipid tilts. This opens up a new avenue towards a possible correlation between heterogeneity length-scale and membrane curvature more significant for rippled membranes. Thus, our analyses provide a measure towards the spatio-temporal scale of dynamical heterogeneity of confined water near membranes.
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- Abhinav Srivastava
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, Jodhpur 342037, India.
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Applications of STED fluorescence nanoscopy in unravelling nanoscale structure and dynamics of biological systems. J Biosci 2018. [DOI: 10.1007/s12038-018-9764-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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Sarangi NK, Roobala C, Basu JK. Unraveling complex nanoscale lipid dynamics in simple model biomembranes: Insights from fluorescence correlation spectroscopy in super-resolution stimulated emission depletion mode. Methods 2018; 140-141:198-211. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2017.11.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2017] [Revised: 11/18/2017] [Accepted: 11/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Chelladurai R, Debnath K, Jana NR, Basu JK. Nanoscale Heterogeneities Drive Enhanced Binding and Anomalous Diffusion of Nanoparticles in Model Biomembranes. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2018; 34:1691-1699. [PMID: 29320202 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b04003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Interaction of functional nanoparticles with cells and model biomembranes has been widely studied to evaluate the effectiveness of the particles as potential drug delivery vehicles and bioimaging labels as well as in understanding nanoparticle cytotoxicity effects. Charged nanoparticles, in particular, with tunable surface charge have been found to be effective in targeting cellular membranes as well as the subcellular matrix. However, a microscopic understanding of the underlying physical principles that govern nanoparticle binding, uptake, or diffusion on cells is lacking. Here, we report the first experimental studies of nanoparticle diffusion on model biomembranes and correlate this to the existence of nanoscale dynamics and structural heterogeneities using super-resolution stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy. Using confocal and STED microscopy coupled with fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS), we provide novel insight on why these nanoparticles show enhanced binding on two-component lipid bilayers as compared to single-component membranes and how binding and diffusion is correlated to subdiffraction nanoscale dynamics and structure. The enhanced binding is also dictated, in part, by the presence of structural and dynamic heterogeneity, as revealed by STED-FCS studies, which could potentially be used to understand enhanced nanoparticle binding in raft-like domains in cell membranes. In addition, we also observe a clear correlation between the enhanced nanoparticle diffusion on membranes and the extent of membrane penetration by the nanoparticles. Our results not only have a significant impact on our understanding of nanoparticle binding and uptake as well as diffusion in cell and biomembranes, but have very strong implications for uptake mechanisms and diffusion of other biomolecules, like proteins on cell membranes and their connections to functional membrane nanoscale platform.
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- Roobala Chelladurai
- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore 560012, India
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- Centre for Advanced Materials, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciences , Kolkata 700032, India
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- Centre for Advanced Materials, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Sciences , Kolkata 700032, India
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore 560012, India
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Sarangi NK, Basu JK. Pathways for creation and annihilation of nanoscale biomembrane domains reveal alpha and beta-toxin nanopore formation processes. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2018; 20:29116-29130. [DOI: 10.1039/c8cp05729j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Raft-like functional domains with putative sizes of 20–200 nm and which are evolving dynamically are believed to be the most crucial regions in cellular membranes which determine cell signaling and various functions of cells.
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- Department of Physics
- Indian Institute of Science
- Bangalore – 560 012
- India
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Sharma VK, Ghosh SK, Mandal P, Yamada T, Shibata K, Mitra S, Mukhopadhyay R. Effects of ionic liquids on the nanoscopic dynamics and phase behaviour of a phosphatidylcholine membrane. SOFT MATTER 2017; 13:8969-8979. [PMID: 29152634 DOI: 10.1039/c7sm01799e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Ionic liquids (ILs) are potential candidates for new antimicrobials due to their tunable antibacterial and antifungal properties that are required to keep pace with the growing challenge of bacterial resistance. To a great extent their antimicrobial actions are related to the interactions of ILs with cell membranes. Here, we report the effects of ILs on the nanoscopic dynamics and phase behaviour of a dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) membrane, a model cell membrane, as studied using neutron scattering techniques. Two prototypical imidazolium-based ILs 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate (BMIM[BF4]) and 1-decyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate (DMIM[BF4]), which differ only in terms of the alkyl chain length of cations, have been used for the present study. Fixed Elastic Window Scan (FEWS) shows that the incorporation of ILs affects the phase behaviour of the phospholipid membrane significantly and the transition from a solid gel to a fluid phase shifts to lower temperature. This is found to be consistent with our differential scanning calorimetry measurements. DMIM[BF4], which has a longer alkyl chain cation, affects the phase behaviour more strongly in comparison to BMIM[BF4]. The pressure-area isotherms of the DMPC monolayer measured at the air-water interface show that in the presence of ILs, isotherms shift towards higher area-per lipid molecule. DMIM[BF4] is found to shift the isotherm to a greater extent compared to BMIM[BF4]. Quasielastic neutron scattering (QENS) data show that both ILs act as a plasticizer, which enhances the fluidity of the membrane. DMIM[BF4] is found to be a stronger plasticizing agent in comparison to BMIM[BF4] that has a cation with a shorter alkyl chain. The incorporation of DMIM[BF4] enhances not only the long range lateral motion but also the localised internal motion of the lipids. On the other hand, BMIM[BF4] acts weakly in comparison to DMIM[BF4] and mainly alters the localised internal motion of the lipids. Any subtle change in the dynamical properties of the membrane can profoundly affect the stability of the cell. Hence, the dominant effect of the IL with the longer chain length on the dynamics of the phospholipid membrane might be correlated with its cytotoxic activity. QENS data analysis has provided a quantitative description of the effects of the two imidazolium-based ILs on the dynamical and phase behaviour of the model cell membrane, which is essential for a detailed understanding of their action mechanism.
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- V K Sharma
- Solid State Physics Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai 400085, India
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