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Gu Y, Reinhard BM. Membrane fluidity properties of lipid-coated polylactic acid nanoparticles. NANOSCALE 2024; 16:8533-8545. [PMID: 38595322 PMCID: PMC11064779 DOI: 10.1039/d3nr06464f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2023] [Accepted: 03/31/2024] [Indexed: 04/11/2024]
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Lipid coating is considered a versatile strategy to equip nanoparticles (NPs) with a biomimetic surface coating, but the membrane properties of these nanoassemblies remain in many cases insufficiently understood. In this work, we apply C-Laurdan generalized polarization (GP) measurements to probe the temperature-dependent polarity of hybrid membranes consisting of a lipid monolayer adsorbed onto a polylactic acid (PLA) polymer core as function of lipid composition and compare the behavior of the lipid coated NPs (LNPs) with that of liposomes assembled from identical lipid mixtures. The LNPs were generated by nanoprecipitation of the polymer in aqueous solutions containing two types of lipid mixtures: (i) cholesterol, dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC), and the ganglioside GM3, as well as (ii) dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC), DPPC and GM3. LNPs were found to exhibit more distinct and narrower phase transitions than corresponding liposomes and to retain detectable phase transitions even for cholesterol or DOPC concentrations that yielded no detectable transitions in liposomes. These findings together with higher GP values in the case of the LNPs for temperatures above the phase transition temperature indicate a stabilization of the membrane through the polymer core. LNP binding studies to GM3-recognizing cells indicate that differences in the membrane fluidity affect binding avidity in the investigated model system.
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- Yuanqing Gu
- Department of Chemistry and The Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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- Department of Chemistry and The Photonics Center, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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Wan H, Jeon G, Xin W, Grason GM, Santore MM. Flower-shaped 2D crystals grown in curved fluid vesicle membranes. Nat Commun 2024; 15:3442. [PMID: 38658581 PMCID: PMC11043355 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47844-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/13/2023] [Accepted: 04/11/2024] [Indexed: 04/26/2024] Open
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The morphologies of two-dimensional (2D) crystals, nucleated, grown, and integrated within 2D elastic fluids, for instance in giant vesicle membranes, are dictated by an interplay of mechanics, permeability, and thermal contraction. Mitigation of solid strain drives the formation of crystals with vanishing Gaussian curvature (i.e., developable domain shapes) and, correspondingly, enhanced Gaussian curvature in the surrounding 2D fluid. However, upon cooling to grow the crystals, large vesicles sustain greater inflation and tension because their small area-to-volume ratio slows water permeation. As a result, more elaborate shapes, for instance, flowers with bendable but inextensible petals, form on large vesicles despite their more gradual curvature, while small vesicles harbor compact planar crystals. This size dependence runs counter to the known cumulative growth of strain energy of 2D colloidal crystals on rigid spherical templates. This interplay of intra-membrane mechanics and processing points to the scalable production of flexible molecular crystals of controllable complex shape.
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- Hao Wan
- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts, 710 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, 686 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA.
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Henderson RDE, Mei N, Xu Y, Gaikwad R, Wettig S, Leonenko Z. Nanoscale Structure of Lipid-Gemini Surfactant Mixed Monolayers Resolved with AFM and KPFM Microscopy. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2024; 14:572. [PMID: 38607107 PMCID: PMC11013119 DOI: 10.3390/nano14070572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/31/2023] [Revised: 03/18/2024] [Accepted: 03/20/2024] [Indexed: 04/13/2024]
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Drug delivery vehicles composed of lipids and gemini surfactants (GS) are promising in gene therapy. Tuning the composition and properties of the delivery vehicle is important for the efficient load and delivery of DNA fragments (genes). In this paper, we studied novel gene delivery systems composed of 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC), 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-3-phosphocholine (DPPC), and GS of the type N,N-bis(dimethylalkyl)-α,ω-alkanediammonium dibromide at different ratios. The nanoscale properties of the mixed DOPC-DPPC-GS monolayers on the surface of the gene delivery system were studied using atomic force microscopy (AFM) and Kelvin probe force microscopy (KPFM). We demonstrate that lipid-GS mixed monolayers result in the formation of nanoscale domains that vary in size, height, and electrical surface potential. We show that the presence of GS can impart significant changes to the domain topography and electrical surface potential compared to monolayers composed of lipids alone.
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- Robert D. E. Henderson
- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada; (R.D.E.H.); (N.M.); (Y.X.)
- Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada; (R.D.E.H.); (N.M.); (Y.X.)
- Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada; (R.D.E.H.); (N.M.); (Y.X.)
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada; (R.D.E.H.); (N.M.); (Y.X.)
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- Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
- School of Pharmacy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
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- Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada; (R.D.E.H.); (N.M.); (Y.X.)
- Waterloo Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
- Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada
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Enoki TA, Heberle FA. Experimentally determined leaflet-leaflet phase diagram of an asymmetric lipid bilayer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2023; 120:e2308723120. [PMID: 37939082 PMCID: PMC10655556 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2308723120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2023] [Accepted: 10/11/2023] [Indexed: 11/10/2023] Open
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We have determined the partial leaflet-leaflet phase diagram of an asymmetric lipid bilayer at ambient temperature using asymmetric giant unilamellar vesicles (aGUVs). Symmetric GUVs with varying amounts of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine and DOPC (1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine) were hemifused to a supported lipid bilayer (SLB) composed of DOPC, resulting in lipid exchange between their outer leaflets. The GUVs and SLB contained a red and green lipid fluorophore, respectively, thus enabling the use of confocal fluorescence imaging to determine both the extent of lipid exchange (quantified for individual vesicles by the loss of red intensity and gain of green intensity) and the presence or absence of phase separation in aGUVs. Consistent with previous reports, we found that hemifusion results in large variation in outer leaflet exchange for individual GUVs, which allowed us to interrogate the phase behavior at multiple points within the asymmetric composition space of the binary mixture. When initially symmetric GUVs showed coexisting gel and fluid domains, aGUVs with less than ~50% outer leaflet exchange were also phase-separated. In contrast, aGUVs with greater than 50% outer leaflet exchange were uniform and fluid. In some cases, we also observed three coexisting bilayer-spanning phases: two registered phases and an anti-registered phase. These results suggest that a relatively large unfavorable midplane interaction between ordered and disordered phases in opposing leaflets (i.e., a midplane surface tension) can overwhelm the driving force for lateral phase separation within one of the leaflets, resulting in an asymmetric bilayer with two uniformly mixed leaflets that is poised to phase-separate upon leaflet scrambling.
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- Thais A. Enoki
- Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN37996
- Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY14853
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Park J, Ahn Y, Lee WJ, Jin S, Jeong S, Kim J, Lee YS, Lee JC, Seo D. Analysis of Phase Heterogeneity in Lipid Membranes Using Single-Molecule Tracking in Live Cells. Anal Chem 2023; 95:15924-15932. [PMID: 37774148 DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.3c02655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/01/2023]
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In live cells, the plasma membrane is composed of lipid domains separated by hundreds of nanometers in dynamic equilibrium. Lipid phase separation regulates the trafficking and spatiotemporal organization of membrane molecules that promote signal transduction. However, visualizing domains with adequate spatiotemporal accuracy remains challenging because of their subdiffraction limit size and highly dynamic properties. Here, we present a single lipid-molecular motion analysis pipeline (lipid-MAP) for analyzing the phase heterogeneity of lipid membranes by detecting the instantaneous velocity change of a single lipid molecule using the excellent optical properties of nanoparticles, high spatial localization accuracy of single-molecule localization microscopy, and separation capability of the diffusion state of the hidden Markov model algorithm. Using lipid-MAP, individual lipid molecules were found to be in dynamic equilibrium between two statistically distinguishable phases, leading to the formation of small (∼170 nm), viscous (2.5× more viscous than surrounding areas), and transient domains in live cells. Moreover, our findings provide an understanding of how membrane compositional changes, i.e., cholesterol and phospholipids, affect domain formation. This imaging method can contribute to an improved understanding of spatiotemporal-controlled membrane dynamics at the molecular level.
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- Jiseong Park
- Department of Physics and Chemistry, DGIST, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Chemistry, DGIST, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Chemistry, DGIST, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Chemistry, DGIST, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Department of New Biology, DGIST, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Department of New Biology, DGIST, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Department of New Biology, DGIST, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Department of New Biology, DGIST, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Physics and Chemistry, DGIST, Daegu 42988, Republic of Korea
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Goodchild J, Walsh DL, Laurent H, Connell SD. PDMS as a Substrate for Lipid Bilayers. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2023; 39:10843-10854. [PMID: 37494418 PMCID: PMC10413950 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c00944] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/09/2023] [Revised: 06/13/2023] [Indexed: 07/28/2023]
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PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) is a cheap, optically clear polymer that is elastic and can be easily and quickly fabricated into a wide array of microscale and nanoscale architectures, making it a versatile substrate for biophysical experiments on cell membranes. It is easy to imagine many new experiments will be devised that require a bilayer to be placed upon a substrate that is flexible or easily cast into a desired geometry, such as in lab-on-a-chip, organ-on-chip, and microfluidic applications, or for building accurate membrane models that replicate the surface structure and elasticity of the cytoskeleton. However, PDMS has its limitations, and the extent to which the behavior of membranes is affected on PDMS has not been fully explored. We use AFM and fluorescence optical microscopy to investigate the use of PDMS as a substrate for the formation and study of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs). Lipid bilayers form on plasma-treated PDMS and show free diffusion and normal phase transitions, confirming its suitability as a model bilayer substrate. However, lipid-phase separation on PDMS is severely restricted due to the pinning of domains to surface roughness, resulting in the cessation of lateral hydrodynamic flow. We show the high-resolution porous structure of PDMS and the extreme smoothing effect of oxygen plasma treatment used to hydrophilize the surface, but this is not flat enough to allow domain formation. We also observe bilayer degradation over hour timescales, which correlates with the known hydrophobic recovery of PDMS, and establish a critical water contact angle of 30°, above which bilayers degrade or not form at all. Care must be taken as incomplete surface oxidation and hydrophobic recovery result in optically invisible membrane disruption, which will also be transparent to fluorescence microscopy and lipid diffusion measurements in the early stages.
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- James
A. Goodchild
- Molecular
and Nanoscale Physics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- Molecular
and Nanoscale Physics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- Molecular
and Nanoscale Physics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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- Molecular
and Nanoscale Physics Group, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
- Bragg
Centre for Materials Research, William Henry Bragg Building, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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Żak A, Rajtar N, Kulig W, Kepczynski M. Miscibility of Phosphatidylcholines in Bilayers: Effect of Acyl Chain Unsaturation. MEMBRANES 2023; 13:411. [PMID: 37103838 PMCID: PMC10146409 DOI: 10.3390/membranes13040411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2023] [Revised: 04/02/2023] [Accepted: 04/03/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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The miscibility of phospholipids in a hydrated bilayer is an issue of fundamental importance for understanding the organization of biological membranes. Despite research on lipid miscibility, its molecular basis remains poorly understood. In this study, all-atom MD simulations complemented by Langmuir monolayer and DSC experiments have been performed to investigate the molecular organization and properties of lipid bilayers composed of phosphatidylcholines with saturated (palmitoyl, DPPC) and unsaturated (oleoyl, DOPC) acyl chains. The experimental results showed that the DOPC/DPPC bilayers are systems exhibiting a very limited miscibility (strongly positive values of excess free energy of mixing) at temperatures below the DPPC phase transition. The excess free energy of mixing is divided into an entropic component, related to the ordering of the acyl chains, and an enthalpic component, resulting from the mainly electrostatic interactions between the headgroups of lipids. MD simulations showed that the electrostatic interactions for lipid like-pairs are much stronger than that for mixed pairs and temperature has only a slight influence on these interactions. On the contrary, the entropic component increases strongly with increasing temperature, due to the freeing of rotation of acyl chains. Therefore, the miscibility of phospholipids with different saturations of acyl chains is an entropy-driven process.
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- Agata Żak
- Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 2, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 2, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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- Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, P.O. Box 64, FI-00014 Helsinki, Finland
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- Faculty of Chemistry, Jagiellonian University, Gronostajowa 2, 30-387 Kraków, Poland
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Pro-inflammatory protein S100A9 alters membrane organization by dispersing ordered domains. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA. BIOMEMBRANES 2023; 1865:184113. [PMID: 36567033 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2022.184113] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2022] [Revised: 12/06/2022] [Accepted: 12/16/2022] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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Pro-inflammatory, calcium-binding protein S100A9 is localized in the cytoplasm of many cells and regulates several intracellular and extracellular processes. S100A9 is involved in neuroinflammation associated with the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease (AD). The number of studies on the impact of S100A9 in co-aggregation processes with amyloid-like proteins is increasing. However, there is still a lack of data on how this protein interacts with lipid membranes. We employed atomic force microscopy (AFM), dynamic light scattering (DLS), and fluorescence measurements (Laurdan and Thioflavin-T) to study the interaction between protein and the membrane surface. We used lipid vesicles in bulk and planar tethered lipid bilayers as biomimetic membrane models. We demonstrated that the protein accumulates on negatively charged lipid bilayers but with no further loss of the bilayer's integrity. The most important result is that the initial adsorption and accumulation of apo-form of S100A9 on the lipid membrane surface is lipid phase-sensitive. The breaking down of raft-like and disappearance of gel-like domains indicate that protein incorporates into the hydrophobic part of the lipid bilayer. We observed the most noticeable loss of integrity in lipid bilayers constructed from a lipid mixture (brain total lipid extract). Understanding the function and interactions of these proteins in cellular environments might expand the development of new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for AD or other related diseases.
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Stability of supported hybrid lipid bilayers on chemically and topographically-modified surfaces. Colloids Surf A Physicochem Eng Asp 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.colsurfa.2023.131125] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/12/2023]
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Park J, Jin S, Jang J, Seo D. Single-Molecule Imaging of Membrane Proteins on Vascular Endothelial Cells. J Lipid Atheroscler 2023; 12:58-72. [PMID: 36761059 PMCID: PMC9884557 DOI: 10.12997/jla.2023.12.1.58] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/19/2022] [Revised: 09/19/2022] [Accepted: 09/22/2022] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Transporting substances such as gases, nutrients, waste, and cells is the primary function of blood vessels. Vascular cells use membrane proteins to perform crucial endothelial functions, including molecular transport, immune cell infiltration, and angiogenesis. A thorough understanding of these membrane receptors from a clinical perspective is warranted to gain insights into the pathogenesis of vascular diseases and to develop effective methods for drug delivery through the vascular endothelium. This review summarizes state-of-the-art single-molecule imaging techniques, such as super-resolution microscopy, single-molecule tracking, and protein-protein interaction analysis, for observing and studying membrane proteins. Furthermore, recent single-molecule studies of membrane proteins such as cadherins, integrins, caveolins, transferrin receptors, vesicle-associated protein-1, and vascular endothelial growth factor receptor are discussed.
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- Jiseong Park
- Department of Physics and Chemistry, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), Daegu, Korea
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- Department of Physics and Chemistry, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), Daegu, Korea
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- Department of Physics and Chemistry, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), Daegu, Korea
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- Department of Physics and Chemistry, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), Daegu, Korea
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Zykova VA, Surovtsev NV. Brillouin Spectroscopy of Binary Phospholipid-Cholesterol Bilayers. APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY 2022; 76:1206-1215. [PMID: 35712869 DOI: 10.1177/00037028221111147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Multicomponent lipid bilayers are used as models for searching the origin of spatial heterogeneities in biomembranes called lipid rafts, implying the coexistence of domains of different phases and compositions within the lipid bilayer. The spatial organization of multicomponent lipid bilayers on a scale of a hundred nanometers remains unknown. Brillouin spectroscopy providing information about the acoustic phonons with the wavelength of several hundred nanometers has an unexplored potential for this problem. Here, we applied Brillouin spectroscopy for three binary bilayers composed of 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC), 1,2-palmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC), and cholesterol. The Brillouin experiment for the oriented planar multibilayers was realized for two scattering geometries involving phonons for the lateral and normal directions of the propagation. The DPPC-DOPC mixtures known for the coexistence of the solid-ordered and liquid-disordered phases had bimodal Brillouin peaks, revealing the phase domains with sizes more than a hundred nanometers. Analysis of the Brillouin data for the binary mixtures concluded that the lateral phonons are preferable for testing the lateral homogeneity of the bilayers, while the phonons spreading across the bilayers are sensitive to the layered packing at the mesoscopic scale.
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- Valeria A Zykova
- 104673Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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- 104673Institute of Automation and Electrometry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
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Mescola A, Ragazzini G, Facci P, Alessandrini A. The potential of AFM in studying the role of the nanoscale amphipathic nature of (lipo)-peptides interacting with lipid bilayers. NANOTECHNOLOGY 2022; 33:432001. [PMID: 35830770 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/ac80c9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2021] [Accepted: 07/13/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) and lipopeptides (LPs) represent very promising molecules to fight resistant bacterial infections due to their broad-spectrum of activity, their first target, i.e. the bacterial membrane, and the rapid bactericidal action. For both types of molecules, the action mechanism starts from the membrane of the pathogen agents, producing a disorganization of their phase structure or the formation of pores of different size altering their permeability. This mechanism of action is based on physical interactions more than on a lock-and-key recognition event and it is difficult for the pathogens to rapidly develop an effective resistance. Very small differences in the sequence of both AMPs and LPs might lead to very different effects on the target membrane. Therefore, a correct understanding of their mechanism of action is required with the aim of developing new synthetic peptides, analogues of the natural ones, with specific and more powerful bactericidal activity. Atomic force microscopy (AFM), with its high resolution and the associated force spectroscopy resource, provides a valuable technique to investigate the reorganization of lipid bilayers exposed to antimicrobial or lipopeptides. Here, we present AFM results obtained by ours and other groups on the action of AMPs and LPs on supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) of different composition. We also consider data obtained by fluorescence microscopy to compare the AFM data with another technique which can be used on different lipid bilayer model systems such as SLBs and giant unilamellar vesicles. The outcomes here presented highlight the powerful of AFM-based techniques in detecting nanoscale peptide-membrane interactions and strengthen their use as an exceptional complementary tool toin vivoinvestigations. Indeed, the combination of these approaches can help decipher the mechanisms of action of different antimicrobials and lipopeptides at both the micro and nanoscale levels, and to design new and more efficient antimicrobial compounds.
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- Andrea Mescola
- CNR-Nanoscience Institute-S3, Via Campi 213/A, I-41125, Modena, Italy
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- Department of Physics, Informatics and Mathematics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213/A, I-41125, Modena, Italy
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- CNR-Ibf, Via De Marini 6, I-16149, Genova, Italy
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- CNR-Nanoscience Institute-S3, Via Campi 213/A, I-41125, Modena, Italy
- Department of Physics, Informatics and Mathematics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213/A, I-41125, Modena, Italy
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Czerniak T, Saenz JP. Lipid membranes modulate the activity of RNA through sequence-dependent interactions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2022; 119:e2119235119. [PMID: 35042820 PMCID: PMC8794826 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2119235119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/02/2021] [Accepted: 12/02/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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RNA is a ubiquitous biomolecule that can serve as both catalyst and information carrier. Understanding how RNA bioactivity is controlled is crucial for elucidating its physiological roles and potential applications in synthetic biology. Here, we show that lipid membranes can act as RNA organization platforms, introducing a mechanism for riboregulation. The activity of R3C ribozyme can be modified by the presence of lipid membranes, with direct RNA-lipid interactions dependent on RNA nucleotide content, base pairing, and length. In particular, the presence of guanine in short RNAs is crucial for RNA-lipid interactions, and G-quadruplex formation further promotes lipid binding. Lastly, by artificially modifying the R3C substrate sequence to enhance membrane binding, we generated a lipid-sensitive ribozyme reaction with riboswitch-like behavior. These findings introduce RNA-lipid interactions as a tool for developing synthetic riboswitches and RNA-based lipid biosensors and bear significant implications for RNA world scenarios for the origin of life.
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- Tomasz Czerniak
- B CUBE Center for Molecular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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- B CUBE Center for Molecular Bioengineering, Technische Universität Dresden, 01307 Dresden, Germany
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Paloncýová M, Čechová P, Šrejber M, Kührová P, Otyepka M. Role of Ionizable Lipids in SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines As Revealed by Molecular Dynamics Simulations: From Membrane Structure to Interaction with mRNA Fragments. J Phys Chem Lett 2021; 12:11199-11205. [PMID: 34761943 PMCID: PMC8609914 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.1c03109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/22/2021] [Accepted: 11/01/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Recent advances in RNA-based medicine have provided new opportunities for the global current challenge, i.e., the COVID-19 pandemic. Novel vaccines are based on a messenger RNA (mRNA) motif with a lipid nanoparticle (LNP) vector, consisting of high content of unique pH-sensitive ionizable lipids (ILs). Here we provide molecular insights into the role of the ILs and lipid mixtures used in current mRNA vaccines. We observed that the lipid mixtures adopted a nonlamellar organization, with ILs separating into a very disordered, pH-sensitive phase. We describe structural differences of the two ILs leading to their different congregation, with implications for the vaccine stability. Finally, as RNA interacts preferentially with IL-rich phases located at the regions with high curvature of lipid phase, local changes in RNA flexibility and base pairing are induced by lipids. A proper atomistic understanding of RNA-lipid interactions may enable rational tailoring of LNP composition for efficient RNA delivery.
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- Markéta Paloncýová
- Regional
Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Advanced Technology
and Research Institute (CATRIN), Palacký
University Olomouc, Šlechtitelů 27, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Regional
Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Advanced Technology
and Research Institute (CATRIN), Palacký
University Olomouc, Šlechtitelů 27, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Regional
Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Advanced Technology
and Research Institute (CATRIN), Palacký
University Olomouc, Šlechtitelů 27, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Regional
Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Advanced Technology
and Research Institute (CATRIN), Palacký
University Olomouc, Šlechtitelů 27, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
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- Regional
Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Czech Advanced Technology
and Research Institute (CATRIN), Palacký
University Olomouc, Šlechtitelů 27, 779 00 Olomouc, Czech Republic
- IT4Innovations, VSB—Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 2172/15, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic
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Xin W, Wu H, Grason GM, Santore MM. Switchable positioning of plate-like inclusions in lipid membranes: Elastically mediated interactions of planar colloids in 2D fluids. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2021; 7:eabf1943. [PMID: 33811075 PMCID: PMC11057706 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abf1943] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2020] [Accepted: 02/17/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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We demonstrate how manipulating curvature in an elastic fluid lamella enables the reversible relative positioning of flat, rigid, plate-like micrometer-scale inclusions, with spacings from about a micrometer to tens of micrometers. In an experimental model comprising giant unilamellar vesicles containing solid domain pairs coexisting in a fluid membrane, we adjusted vesicle inflation to manipulate membrane curvature and mapped the interdomain separation. A two-dimensional model of the pair potential predicts the salient experimental observations and reveals both attractions and repulsions, producing a potential minimum entirely a result of the solid domain rigidity and bending energy in the fluid membrane. The impact of vesicle inflation on domain separation in vesicles containing two solid domains was qualitatively consistent with observations in vesicles containing many domains. The behavior differs qualitatively from the pure repulsions between fluid membrane domains or interactions between nanoscopic inclusions whose repulsive or attractive character is not switchable.
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- Weiyue Xin
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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- Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, USA.
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Morandi MI, Kluzek M, Wolff J, Schroder A, Thalmann F, Marques CM. Accumulation of styrene oligomers alters lipid membrane phase order and miscibility. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:e2016037118. [PMID: 33468682 PMCID: PMC7848699 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2016037118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Growth of plastic waste in the natural environment, and in particular in the oceans, has raised the accumulation of polystyrene and other polymeric species in eukyarotic cells to the level of a credible and systemic threat. Oligomers, the smallest products of polymer degradation or incomplete polymerization reactions, are the first species to leach out of macroscopic or nanoscopic plastic materials. However, the fundamental mechanisms of interaction between oligomers and polymers with the different cell components are yet to be elucidated. Simulations performed on lipid bilayers showed changes in membrane mechanical properties induced by polystyrene, but experimental results performed on cell membranes or on cell membrane models are still missing. We focus here on understanding how embedded styrene oligomers affect the phase behavior of model membranes using a combination of scattering, fluorescence, and calorimetric techniques. Our results show that styrene oligomers disrupt the phase behavior of lipid membranes, modifying the thermodynamics of the transition through a spatial modulation of lipid composition.
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- Mattia I Morandi
- Institut Charles Sadron, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, UPR022, 67034 Strasbourg Cedex, France
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- Institut Charles Sadron, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, UPR022, 67034 Strasbourg Cedex, France
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- Institut Charles Sadron, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, UPR022, 67034 Strasbourg Cedex, France
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- Institut Charles Sadron, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, UPR022, 67034 Strasbourg Cedex, France
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- Institut Charles Sadron, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, UPR022, 67034 Strasbourg Cedex, France
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- Institut Charles Sadron, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, UPR022, 67034 Strasbourg Cedex, France
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Hamada N, Gakhar S, Longo ML. Hybrid lipid/block copolymer vesicles display broad phase coexistence region. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2021; 1863:183552. [PMID: 33444620 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2021.183552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2020] [Revised: 12/29/2020] [Accepted: 01/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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The fluidity and polar environment of ~100 nm hybrid vesicles combining dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and poly(1,2-butadiene)-block-polyethylene oxide (PBd-PEO, average molecular weight 950 g/mol) were studied upon vesicle heating using the fluorescence spectroscopy techniques of DPH anisotropy and laurdan generalized polarization (GP). These techniques indicated PBd-PEO membranes are less ordered than solid DPPC, but slightly more ordered than fluid DPPC or dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC) membranes. We find the DPH anisotropy values are less than expected from additivity of the components' anisotropies in the fluid phase mixture of DPPC and PBd-PEO, inferring that DPPC strongly fluidizes the PBd-PEO. We use transitions in DPH anisotropy and laurdan GP to create a temperature/composition phase diagram for DPPC/PBd-PEO which we find displays a significantly broader solid/fluid phase coexistence region than DPPC/DOPC, showing that DPPC partitions less readily into fluid PBd-PEO than into fluid DOPC. The existence of a broad solid/fluid phase coexistence region in DPPC/PBd-PEO vesicles is verified by Förster resonance energy transfer results and the visualization of phase separation in giant unilamellar vesicles containing up to 95% PBd-PEO and a single phase in 100% PBd-PEO vesicles at room temperature. These results add to the limited knowledge of phase behavior and phase diagrams of hybrid vesicles, and should be useful in understanding and tailoring membrane surface architecture toward biomedical applications such as drug delivery or membrane protein reconstitution.
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- Naomi Hamada
- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, United States.
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Mei N, Robinson M, Davis JH, Leonenko Z. Melatonin Alters Fluid Phase Coexistence in POPC/DPPC/Cholesterol Membranes. Biophys J 2020; 119:2391-2402. [PMID: 33157120 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2020.10.030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2020] [Revised: 08/30/2020] [Accepted: 10/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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The structure and biophysical properties of lipid membranes are important for cellular functions in health and disease. In Alzheimer's disease, the neuronal membrane is a target for toxic amyloid-β (Aβ). Melatonin is an important pineal gland hormone that has been shown to protect against Aβ toxicity in cellular and animal studies, but the molecular mechanism of this protection is not fully understood. Melatonin is a small membrane-active molecule that has been shown to interact with model lipid membranes and alter the membrane biophysical properties, such as membrane molecular order and dynamics. This effect of melatonin has been previously studied in simple model bilayers with one or two lipid components. To make it more relevant to neuronal membranes, we used a more complex ternary lipid mixture as our membrane model. In this study, we used 2H-NMR to investigate the effect of melatonin on the phase behavior of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC), 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC), and cholesterol lipid membranes. We used deuterium-labeled POPC-d31 and DPPC-d62,separately to probe the changes in hydrocarbon chain order as a function of temperature and melatonin concentration. We find that POPC/DPPC/cholesterol at molar proportions of 3:3:2 is close to liquid-disordered/liquid-ordered phase separation and that melatonin can induce phase separation in these ternary mixtures by preferentially incorporating into the disordered phase and increasing its level of disorder. At 5 mol% melatonin, we observed phase separation in samples with POPC-d31, but not with DPPC-d62, whereas at 10 mol% melatonin, phase separation was observed in both samples with either POPC-d31 or DPPC-d62. These results indicate that melatonin can have a strong effect on membrane structure and physical properties, which may provide some clues to understanding how melatonin protects against Aβ, and that choice of chain perdeuteration is an important consideration from a technical point of view.
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- Nanqin Mei
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; Department of Biology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; Waterloo Institute of Nanotechnology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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Gu RX, Baoukina S, Tieleman DP. Phase Separation in Atomistic Simulations of Model Membranes. J Am Chem Soc 2020; 142:2844-2856. [DOI: 10.1021/jacs.9b11057] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Ruo-Xu Gu
- Centre for Molecular Simulation and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive, N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Centre for Molecular Simulation and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive, N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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- Centre for Molecular Simulation and Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive, N.W., Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada
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Goodchild JA, Walsh DL, Connell SD. Nanoscale Substrate Roughness Hinders Domain Formation in Supported Lipid Bilayers. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2019; 35:15352-15363. [PMID: 31626551 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b01990] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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Supported lipid bilayers are model membranes formed at solid substrate surfaces. This architecture renders the membrane experimentally accessible to surface-sensitive techniques used to study their properties, including atomic force microscopy, optical fluorescence microscopy, quartz crystal microbalance, and X-ray/neutron reflectometry, and allows integration with technology for potential biotechnological applications such as drug screening devices. The experimental technique often dictates substrate choice or treatment, and it is anecdotally recognized that certain substrates are suitable for a particular experiment, but the exact influence of the substrate has not been comprehensively investigated. Here, we study the behavior of a simple model bilayer, phase-separating on a variety of commonly used substrates, including glass, mica, silicon, and quartz, with drastically different results. The distinct micron-scale domains observed on mica, identical to those seen in free-floating giant unilamellar vesicles, are reduced to nanometer-scale domains on glass and quartz. The mechanism for the arrest of domain formation is investigated, and the most likely candidate is nanoscale surface roughness, acting as a drag on the hydrodynamic motion of small domains during phase separation. Evidence was found that the physicochemical properties of the surface have a mediating effect, most likely because of the changes in the lubricating interstitial water layer between the surface and bilayer.
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- James A Goodchild
- School of Physics and Astronomy , University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT , U.K
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- School of Physics and Astronomy , University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT , U.K
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- School of Physics and Astronomy , University of Leeds , Leeds LS2 9JT , U.K
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Baoukina S, Rozmanov D, Tieleman DP. Composition Fluctuations in Lipid Bilayers. Biophys J 2018; 113:2750-2761. [PMID: 29262367 PMCID: PMC5770567 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.10.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2017] [Revised: 10/09/2017] [Accepted: 10/10/2017] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Cell membranes contain multiple lipid and protein components having heterogeneous in-plane (lateral) distribution. Nanoscale rafts are believed to play an important functional role, but their phase state—domains of coexisting phases or composition fluctuations—is unknown. As a step toward understanding lateral organization of cell membranes, we investigate the difference between nanoscale domains of coexisting phases and composition fluctuations in lipid bilayers. We simulate model lipid bilayers with the MARTINI coarse-grained force field on length scales of tens of nanometers and timescales of tens of microseconds. We use a binary and a ternary mixture: a saturated and an unsaturated lipid, or a saturated lipid, an unsaturated lipid, and cholesterol, respectively. In these mixtures, the phase behavior can be tuned from a mixed state to a coexistence of a liquid-crystalline and a gel, or a liquid-ordered and a liquid-disordered phase. Transition from a two-phase to a one-phase state is achieved by raising the temperature and adding a hybrid lipid (with a saturated and an unsaturated chain). We analyze the evolution of bilayer properties along this transition: domains of two phases transform to fluctuations with local ordering and compositional demixing. Nanoscale domains and fluctuations differ in several properties, including interleaflet overlap and boundary length. Hybrid lipids show no enrichment at the boundary, but decrease the difference between the coexisting phases by ordering the disordered phase, which could explain their role in cell membranes.
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- Svetlana Baoukina
- Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Molecular Simulation, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Information Technologies, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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- Department of Biological Sciences and Centre for Molecular Simulation, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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Watanabe N, Suga K, Umakoshi H. Comparison of Physicochemical Membrane Properties of Vesicles Modified with Guanidinium Derivatives. J Phys Chem B 2017; 121:9213-9222. [PMID: 28820256 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.7b04007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Bilayer vesicles have garnered considerable research attention as molecular vehicles capable of noncovalent interaction with biomolecules via electrostatic and hydrophobic bonds and van der Waals interactions. Guanidinium strongly interacts with phosphate groups. Thus, guanidinium modification of vesicles helps intensify the interaction between lipid membranes and nucleic acids. Here, two kinds of guanidinium derivatives, stearylguanidinium (SG) and myristoylarginine (MA), were synthesized and incorporated into 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidylcholine (POPC) vesicles. Differences in their membrane properties were evaluated using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and the fluorescent probes 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH), 6-lauroyl-2-dimethylaminonaphthalene (Laurdan), and 2-p-toluidinylnaphthalene-6-sulfonate (TNS). The increased SG ratio increased overall hydrophobicity and lipid packing density compared to POPC vesicles, and SG-modified vesicles successfully attracted and then denatured negatively charged tRNAs (tRNAs). In contrast, MA-modified vesicles did not affect the stiffness of POPC membranes, wherein no conformational change in tRNAs was observed in the presence of POPC/MA vesicles. Analyses of the pH-dependent fluorescence emission of TNS suggested that SG and MA molecules render the membrane surfaces cationic and anionic, respectively, which was also revealed by zeta potential measurements. Our results enabled the construction of a model of the headgroup orientation of zwitterionic POPC molecules controlled by modification with guanidinium derivatives. The results also indicate the possibility to regulate the interaction and conformation of biological molecules, such as nucleic acid.
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- Nozomi Watanabe
- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University , 1-3 Machikaneyamacho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University , 1-3 Machikaneyamacho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University , 1-3 Machikaneyamacho, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-8531, Japan
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Schmidt ML, Davis JH. Liquid Disordered-Liquid Ordered Phase Coexistence in Lipid/Cholesterol Mixtures: A Deuterium 2D NMR Exchange Study. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2017; 33:1881-1890. [PMID: 28165749 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b02834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Model membranes composed of two types of long chain phospholipids, one unsaturated and one saturated, along with cholesterol can exhibit two coexisting fluid phases (liquid disordered ([Formula: see text]) and liquid ordered ([Formula: see text])) at various temperatures and compositions. Here we used 1D and 2D 2H NMR to compare the behavior of multilamellar dispersions, magnetically oriented bicelles, and mechanically aligned bilayers on glass plates, all of which contain the same proportions of dipalmitoleoylphosphatidylcholine (DPoPC), dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC), and cholesterol. We found that multilamellar dispersions and bilayers aligned on glass plates behave very similarly. These samples were close to a critical composition and exhibit exchange of the lipids between the two fluid phases at temperatures near the [Formula: see text] to [Formula: see text]-[Formula: see text] phase boundary. On the other hand, when a short chain lipid is added to the ternary long chain lipid/cholesterol mixture to form bicelles, the phase behavior is changed significantly and the [Formula: see text] phase occurs at a higher than expected temperature. In addition, there was no evidence of exchange of lipids between the [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] phases or critical fluctuations at the temperature where the bulk of the sample enters the two-phase region for these bicelles. It appears that the addition of the short chain lipid results in these samples no longer being near a critical composition.
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- Miranda L Schmidt
- University of Guelph , Department of Physics, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario, Canada , N1G 2W1
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- University of Guelph , Department of Physics, 50 Stone Road East, Guelph, Ontario, Canada , N1G 2W1
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Al Sazzad MA, Slotte JP. Effect of Phosphatidylcholine Unsaturation on the Lateral Segregation of Palmitoyl Ceramide and Palmitoyl Dihydroceramide in Bilayer Membranes. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2016; 32:5973-5980. [PMID: 27218704 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b00859] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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To better understand the interactions of saturated ceramides with unsaturated glycerophospholipids in bilayer membranes, we measured how palmitoyl ceramide (PCer) and dihydroceramide (dihydro-PCer, lacking the trans 4 double bond of the sphingoid base of ceramide) can interact with phosphatidylcholines (PCs) with palmitic acid in the sn-1 position and increasingly unsaturated acyl chains in the sn-2 position. The PCs were 16:0/18:1 (POPC), 16:0/18:2 (PLPC), 16:0/20:4 (PAPC), and 16:0(22:6 (PDPC). We also included di-18:1-PC (DOPC) to compare it with POPC. Because the ceramides were expected to segregate laterally to an ordered ceramide-rich phase, we determined the formation of the ordered phase using lifetime analysis of trans-parinaric acid (tPA) fluorescence. The presence of ordered domains, as indicated by tPA lifetime analysis, was verified by an analysis of tPA anisotropy as a function of temperature. The interaction between PCer and POPC was clearly more favored than interactions with DOPC, as seen from a more thermostable gel phase in POPC than in DOPC at equal ceramide content. The concentration needed for PCer gel phase formation was also lower in POPC than in the DOPC bilayers, suggesting that POPC had better miscibility in the ordered phase. The increased unsaturation of the sn-2 acyl chains of the PCs had more clear effects of dihydro-PCer segregation than on PCer segregation, and the dihydro-PCer gel phase became more thermostable as the unsaturation in the PC increased. We conclude that the interactions between ceramides and PCs were complex and affected both by the trans 4 double bond of PCer by the palmitoyl acyl in the sn-1 position and by the overall degree of unsaturation of the sn-2 acyl chain of the PCs.
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- Md Abdullah Al Sazzad
- Biochemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University , Turku, Finland
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- Biochemistry, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University , Turku, Finland
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Onuki Y, Obata Y, Kawano K, Sano H, Matsumoto R, Hayashi Y, Takayama K. Membrane Microdomain Structures of Liposomes and Their Contribution to the Cellular Uptake Efficiency into HeLa Cells. Mol Pharm 2016; 13:369-78. [PMID: 26709741 DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.5b00601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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The purpose of this study is to obtain a comprehensive relationship between membrane microdomain structures of liposomes and their cellular uptake efficiency. Model liposomes consisting of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC)/1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC)/cholesterol (Ch) were prepared with various lipid compositions. To detect distinct membrane microdomains in the liposomes, fluorescence-quenching assays were performed at temperatures ranging from 25 to 60 °C using 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene-labeled liposomes and (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-1-yl)oxyl. From the data analysis using the response surface method, we gained a better understanding of the conditions for forming distinct domains (Lo, Ld, and gel phase membranes) as a function of lipid composition. We further performed self-organizing maps (SOM) clustering to simplify the complicated behavior of the domain formation to obtain its essence. As a result, DPPC/DOPC/Ch liposomes in any lipid composition were integrated into five distinct clusters in terms of similarity of the domain structure. In addition, the findings from synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering analysis offered further insight into the domain structures. As a last phase of this study, an in vitro cellular uptake study using HeLa cells was conducted using SOM clusters' liposomes with/without PEGylation. As a consequence of this study, higher cellular uptake was observed from liposomes having Ch-rich ordered domains.
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- Yoshinori Onuki
- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Science, Unversity of Toyama , Sugitani 2630, Toyama-shi, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutics and §Department of Drug Delivery Research, Hoshi University , Ebara 2-4-41, Shinagawa, Tokyo 142-8501, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutics and §Department of Drug Delivery Research, Hoshi University , Ebara 2-4-41, Shinagawa, Tokyo 142-8501, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutics and §Department of Drug Delivery Research, Hoshi University , Ebara 2-4-41, Shinagawa, Tokyo 142-8501, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Graduate School of Medical and Pharmaceutical Science, Unversity of Toyama , Sugitani 2630, Toyama-shi, Toyama 930-0194, Japan
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- Department of Pharmaceutics and §Department of Drug Delivery Research, Hoshi University , Ebara 2-4-41, Shinagawa, Tokyo 142-8501, Japan
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Lateral Distribution of Membrane Components and Transient Lipid-Protein Structures. MEMBRANE PROTEIN – LIPID INTERACTIONS: PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY IN THE BILAYER 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-30277-5_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Lor C, Hirst LS. Effects of Low Concentrations of Docosahexaenoic Acid on the Structure and Phase Behavior of Model Lipid Membranes. MEMBRANES 2015; 5:857-74. [PMID: 26690231 PMCID: PMC4704016 DOI: 10.3390/membranes5040857] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/15/2015] [Accepted: 11/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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In this paper we report an X-ray diffraction study on the phase behavior of binary lipid mixtures of 1-palmitoyl-2-docosahexaenoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (DHA-PE) and 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) at low concentrations below 5.0 mol% DHA-PE. Our results show that DHA-PE induces phase separation into a DHA rich liquid crystalline (Lα) phase and a DHA poor gel (Lβ') phase at overall DHA-PE concentrations as low as 0.1 mol%. In addition, we find that the structure of the Lβ' phase, from which the DHA-PE molecules are largely excluded, is modified in the phase-separated state at low DHA-PE concentrations, with a decrease in bilayer thickness of 1.34 nm for 0.1 mol% at room temperature, compared to pure DPPC bilayers. This result is contrary to that seen in similar studies on mono-unsaturated lipids where an increase in bilayer thickness is observed. The surprising effect of such low DHA-PE concentrations on membrane structure may be important in understanding the role of highly polyunsaturated lipids in biological membrane-based structures and similar artificial surfactant systems.
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- Chai Lor
- Bioengineering and Small Scale Technologies, School of Engineering, University of California, Merced, CA 95343, USA.
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- Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences, University of California, Merced, CA 95343, USA.
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Chen D, Santore MM. Hybrid copolymer-phospholipid vesicles: phase separation resembling mixed phospholipid lamellae, but with mechanical stability and control. SOFT MATTER 2015; 11:2617-26. [PMID: 25687473 DOI: 10.1039/c4sm02502d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Vesicles whose bilayer membranes contain phospholipids mixed with co-polymers or surfactants comprise new hybrid materials having potential applications in drug delivery, sensors, and biomaterials. Here we describe a model polymer-phospholipid hybrid membrane system exhibiting strong similarities to binary phospholipid mixtures, but with more robust membrane mechanics. A lamella-forming graft copolymer, PDMS-co-PEO (polydimethylsiloxane-co-polyethylene oxide) was blended with a high melting temperature phospholipid, DPPC (1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine), over a broad compositional range. The resulting giant hybrid unilamellar vesicles were compared qualitatively and quantitatively to analogous mixed phospholipid membranes in which a low melting temperature phospholipid, DOPC (1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine), was blended with DPPC. The mechanical properties of the hybrid vesicles, even when phase separated, were robust with high lysis stresses and strains approaching those of the pure copolymer vesicles. The temperature-composition phase diagram of the hybrid vesicles closely resembled that of the mixed phospholipids; with only slightly greater nonidealities in the hybrid compared with DOPC/DPPC mixed membranes. In both systems, it was demonstrated that tension could be used to manipulate DPPC solidification into domains of patchy or striped morphologies that exhibited different tracer incorporation. The patch and stripe-shaped domains are thought to be different solid DPPC polymorphys: ripple and tilt (or gel). This work demonstrates that in mixed-phospholipid bilayers where a high-melting phospholipid solidifies on cooling, the lower-melting phospholipid may be substituted by an appropriate copolymer to improve mechanical properties while retaining the underlying membrane physics.
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- Dong Chen
- Department of Physics, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 120 Governors Drive, Amherst, MA 01003, USA
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Wu FG, Sun HY, Zhou Y, Deng G, Yu ZW. Molecular-level pictures of the phase transitions of saturated and unsaturated phospholipid binary mixtures. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c4ra07569b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Saturated and unsaturated lipids change nonsynchronously upon heating-induced phase transitions.
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- Fu-Gen Wu
- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorous Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education)
- Department of Chemistry
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
- P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorous Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education)
- Department of Chemistry
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
- P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorous Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education)
- Department of Chemistry
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
- P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorous Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education)
- Department of Chemistry
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
- P. R. China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioorganic Phosphorous Chemistry and Chemical Biology (Ministry of Education)
- Department of Chemistry
- Tsinghua University
- Beijing 100084
- P. R. China
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Three dimensional (temperature–tension–composition) phase map of mixed DOPC–DPPC vesicles: Two solid phases and a fluid phase coexist on three intersecting planes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2014; 1838:2788-97. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2014.07.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2014] [Revised: 06/23/2014] [Accepted: 07/16/2014] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Chen D, Santore MM. 1,2-Dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC)-rich domain formation in binary phospholipid vesicle membranes: two-dimensional nucleation and growth. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2014; 30:9484-9493. [PMID: 25084141 DOI: 10.1021/la502089t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/03/2023]
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Decades of study have probed phase transitions in model phospholipid bilayers and vesicles, especially in the context of the equilibrium phase diagram. Critical to the response of vesicles to environmental triggers, to the ultimate domain morphology, and to the approach to equilibrium (or not), we present here a study of domain formation in vesicles, focusing on a mechanism by which the cooling rate, tension, and composition affect the first appearance (nucleation) and subsequent growth of solid membrane domains. Employing a popular mixed membrane model based on DOPC and DPPC (1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine and 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine, respectively), we examined phase separation in giant two-component vesicles that were cooled from the one-phase fluid (Lα) region of the phase diagram into a region of fluid (Lα)-solid coexistence. At moderate and low membrane tensions, cooling produced solid DPPC-rich domains appearing as compact patches or irregular hexagons and likely with a Pβ' (ripple) arrangement. (The compact solid domains in this study differed distinctly from striped domains in vesicles of the same composition, in terms of molecular organization and conditions of first appearance during cooling.) The amounts of these solid domains were shown to adhere to the lever arm rule for a tie line on the phase diagram, with a solid composition near 95 mol % DPPC. The nucleation of the compact solid domains occurred in a short period, followed by rapid addition of ordered molecules to the nucleated domains, excluding tracer dye. The two-dimensional nucleation density of these compact solid domains (in the range of 10(-2)-10(-1) μm(-2)) was found to increase with the cooling rate (equivalent to the quench depth) with a greater than linear dependence. The 2-D nucleation density was also seen to decrease with membrane tension, presumably because membrane tension increases the line tension around a domain that opposes nucleation. A sigmoidal dependence of the nucleation density on the DPPC concentration was also found. With cooling rates in excess of ∼1 °C/min, solid domains persisted down to room temperature, likely passing from a preferred equilibrium to a local equilibrium with continued cooling. As a result of the persistence of the originally nucleated domains and the conservation of DPPC in the membrane, we observed an increasingly greater number of smaller domains with increased cooling rates. The domains in these vesicles were compact or hexagonal-shaped in contrast to flower-shaped dendritic domains in the same membrane system in a supported membrane configuration.
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- Dong Chen
- Department of Physics and ‡Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts , Amherst, Massachusetts 01003, United States
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Large effect of membrane tension on the fluid-solid phase transitions of two-component phosphatidylcholine vesicles. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2013; 111:179-84. [PMID: 24344297 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1314993111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Model phospholipid membranes and vesicles have long provided insight into the nature of confined materials and membranes while also providing a platform for drug delivery. The rich thermodynamic behavior and interesting domain shapes in these membranes have previously been mapped in extensive studies that vary temperature and composition; however, the thermodynamic impact of tension on bilayers has been restricted to recent reports of subtly reduced fluid-fluid transition temperatures. In two-component phosphatidylcholine unilamellar vesicles [1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC)/1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC)], we report a dramatic influence of tension on the fluid-solid transition and resulting phases: At fixed composition, systematic variations in tension produce differently shaped solid domains (striped or irregular hexagons), shift fluid-solid transition temperatures, and produce a triple-point-like intersection of coexistence curves at elevated tensions, about 3 mN/m for 30% DOPC/70% DPPC. Tension therefore represents a potential switch of microstructure in responsive engineered materials; it is an important morphology-determining variable in confined systems, and, in biological membranes, it may provide a means to regulate dynamic structure.
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Suga K, Umakoshi H. Detection of nanosized ordered domains in DOPC/DPPC and DOPC/Ch binary lipid mixture systems of large unilamellar vesicles using a TEMPO quenching method. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2013; 29:4830-8. [PMID: 23506052 DOI: 10.1021/la304768f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Nanosized ordered domains formed in 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine/1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC/DPPC) and DOPC/cholesterol (Ch) liposomes were characterized using a newly developed (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidin-1-yl)oxyl (TEMPO) quenching method. The membrane fluidity of the DOPC/DPPC liposomes, evaluated by the use of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH), increased significantly above their phase-transition temperature. The fluorescence spectra of 6-lauroyl-2-dimethylamino naphthalene (Laurdan) indicated the formation of an immiscible ordered phase in the DOPC/DPPC (50/50) liposomal membrane at 30 °C. The analysis of the membrane polarity indicated that the surface of the liquid-disordered phase was hydrated whereas that of the ordered phase was dehydrated. DOPC/DPPC and DOPC/Ch (70/30) liposomes exhibited heterogeneous membranes, indicating that nanosized ordered domains formed on the surface of the DOPC/DPPC liposomes. The size of these nanosized ordered domains was estimated using the TEMPO quenching method. Because TEMPO can quench DPH distributed in the disordered phases, the remaining fluorescence from DPH is proportional to the size of the ordered domain. The domain sizes calculated for DOPC/DPPC (50/50), DOPC/DPPC (25/75), DOPC/Ch (70/30), and DOPC/DPPC/Ch (40/40/20) were 13.9, 36.2, 13.2, and 35.5 Å, respectively.
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- Keishi Suga
- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
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Effects of surfactin on membrane models displaying lipid phase separation. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2013; 1828:801-15. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2012.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/20/2012] [Revised: 10/19/2012] [Accepted: 11/05/2012] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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UMAKOSHI H, SUGA K. Use Liposome as a Designable Platform for Molecular Recognition ~ from “Statistical Separation” to “Recognitive Separation” ~. SOLVENT EXTRACTION RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT-JAPAN 2013. [DOI: 10.15261/serdj.20.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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- Hiroshi UMAKOSHI
- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
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- Division of Chemical Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University
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Sarmento M, Prieto M, Fernandes F. Reorganization of lipid domain distribution in giant unilamellar vesicles upon immobilization with different membrane tethers. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2012; 1818:2605-15. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2012.05.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/21/2012] [Revised: 05/22/2012] [Accepted: 05/25/2012] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Pyrkova DV, Tarasova NK, Krylov NA, Nolde DE, Pentkovsky VM, Efremov RG. Dynamic clustering of lipids in hydrated two-component membranes: results of computer modeling and putative biological impact. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2012; 31:87-95. [PMID: 22804614 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2012.691365] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Delineation and analysis of lateral clustering of lipids in model bilayers is an important step toward understanding of the physical processes underlying formation of lipid domains and rafts in cell membranes. Computer modeling methods represent a powerful tool to address the problem since they can detect clusters of only few lipid molecules - this issue still resists easy characterization with modern experimental techniques. In this work, we propose a computational method to detect and analyze parts of membrane with different packing densities and hydrogen bonding patterns. A series of one- and two-component fluid systems containing lipids with the same polar heads and different acyl chains, dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (18:1) and dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (16:0), or with same acyl chains and different polar heads, dioleoylphosphatidylserine (18:1) and dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (18:1), were studied via molecular dynamics simulations. Four criteria of clustering were considered. It was shown that the water-lipid interface of biomembranes represents a highly dynamic and "mosaic" picture, whose parameters depend on the bilayer composition. Some systems (e.g. with 20-30% of the anionic lipid) demonstrate unusual clustering properties and demand further investigation at molecular level. Lateral microheterogeneities in fluid lipid bilayers seem to be among the most important factors determining the nature of the membrane-water interface in a cell.
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- Darya V Pyrkova
- M.M. Shemyakin & Yu.A. Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, ul. Miklukho-Maklaya, 16/10, Moscow, 117997, Russia
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Juhasz J, Davis JH, Sharom FJ. Fluorescent probe partitioning in GUVs of binary phospholipid mixtures: implications for interpreting phase behavior. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES 2011; 1818:19-26. [PMID: 21945563 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2011.09.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2011] [Revised: 08/25/2011] [Accepted: 09/08/2011] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The phase behavior of membrane lipids is known to influence the organization and function of many integral proteins. Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) provide a very useful model system in which to examine the details of lipid phase separation using fluorescence imaging. The visualization of domains in GUVs of binary and ternary lipid mixtures requires fluorescent probes with partitioning preference for one of the phases present. To avoid possible pitfalls when interpreting the phase behavior of these lipid mixtures, sufficiently thorough characterization of the fluorescent probes used in these studies is needed. It is now evident that fluorescent probes display different partitioning preferences between lipid phases, depending on the specific lipid host system. Here, we demonstrate the benefit of using a panel of fluorescent probes and confocal fluorescence microscopy to examine phase separation in GUVs of binary mixtures of 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC)/1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC). Patch and fibril gel phase domains were found to co-exist with liquid disordered (l(d)) domains on the surface of GUVs composed of 40:60 mol% DOPC/DPPC, over a wide range of temperatures (14-25°C). The fluorescent lipid, 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine-N-(7-nitro-2-1,3-benzoxadiazol-4-yl (NBD-DPPE), proved to be the most effective probe for visualization of fibril domains. In the presence of Lissamine(TM) rhodamine B 1,2-dihexadecanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine (Rh-DPPE) we were unable to detect fibril domains. This fluorophore also affected the partitioning behavior of other fluorescent probes. Overall, we show that the selection of different fluorescent probes as lipid phase reporters can result in very different interpretation of the phase behavior of DOPC/DPPC mixtures.
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- Janos Juhasz
- Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada
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Sub-diffraction optical imaging with nanometer resolution of lipid phase-separated regions is reported. Merocyanine 540, a probe whose fluorescence is sensitive to the lipid phase, is combined with super-resolution imaging to distinguish the liquid- and gel-phase nanoscale domains of lipid bilayers supported on glass. The monomer-dimer equilibrium of MC540 in membranes is deemed responsible for the population difference of single-molecule fluorescence bursts in the different phase regions. The extension of this method to other binary or ternary lipid models or natural systems provides a promising new super-resolution strategy.
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- Chinkuei Kuo
- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, 231 S. 34th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6323
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Wolff J, Marques CM, Thalmann F. Thermodynamic approach to phase coexistence in ternary phospholipid-cholesterol mixtures. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2011; 106:128104. [PMID: 21517355 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.106.128104] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2010] [Indexed: 05/30/2023]
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We introduce a simple and predictive model for determining the phase stability of ternary phospholipid-cholesterol mixtures. Assuming that competition between the liquid and gel order of the phospholipids is the main driving force behind lipid segregation, we derive a Gibbs free energy of mixing, based on the thermodynamic properties of the lipids main transition. A numerical approach was devised that enables the fast and efficient determination of the ternary diagrams associated with our Gibbs free energy. The computed phase coexistence diagram of DOPC/DPPC/cholesterol reproduces well-known features for this system at 10 °C, as well as its evolution with temperature.
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- J Wolff
- Institut Charles Sadron, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS UPR 22, 23 rue du Loess, Strasbourg Cedex, F-67037, France
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de Joannis J, Coppock PS, Yin F, Mori M, Zamorano A, Kindt JT. Atomistic Simulation of Cholesterol Effects on Miscibility of Saturated and Unsaturated Phospholipids: Implications for Liquid-Ordered/Liquid-Disordered Phase Coexistence. J Am Chem Soc 2011; 133:3625-34. [DOI: 10.1021/ja110425s] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Jason de Joannis
- Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation and Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
- Institutional Program of Molecular Biomedicine, ENMH-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation and Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
- Institutional Program of Molecular Biomedicine, ENMH-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation and Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
- Institutional Program of Molecular Biomedicine, ENMH-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation and Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
- Institutional Program of Molecular Biomedicine, ENMH-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation and Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
- Institutional Program of Molecular Biomedicine, ENMH-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Cherry L. Emerson Center for Scientific Computation and Department of Chemistry, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, United States
- Institutional Program of Molecular Biomedicine, ENMH-IPN, Mexico City, Mexico
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Kinoshita M, Ito K, Kato S. Kinetics for the subgel phase formation in DPPC/DOPC mixed bilayers. Chem Phys Lipids 2010; 163:712-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.chemphyslip.2010.06.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2010] [Revised: 06/11/2010] [Accepted: 06/18/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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