Molecular order and dynamics in planar lipid bilayers: effects of unsaturation and sterols

Angle-resolved fluorescence depolarization experiments were carried out on 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH) and 1-[4-(trimethylammonio)phenyl]-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (TMA-DPH) molecules embedded in macroscopically oriented multilayers of saturated [dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC)] and un...

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Published in:Biochemistry (Easton) 1988-02, Vol.27 (3), p.852-860
Main Authors: Deinum, Geurt, Van Langen, Herman, Van Ginkel, Gijs, Levine, Yehudi K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial membranes and reconstituted systems
Biological and medical sciences
Fatty Acids, Unsaturated
fluorescence
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Lipid Bilayers
Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy - methods
Mathematics
membrane fluidity
Membrane physicochemistry
Models, Biological
Molecular biophysics
Phosphatidylcholines
Spectrometry, Fluorescence
Sterols
Structure-Activity Relationship
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Summary:Angle-resolved fluorescence depolarization experiments were carried out on 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH) and 1-[4-(trimethylammonio)phenyl]-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (TMA-DPH) molecules embedded in macroscopically oriented multilayers of saturated [dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC)] and unsaturated [palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine (POPC), dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC), dilineoylphosphatidylcholine (DLPC), plant digalactosyldiglyceride (DGDG)] lipids with and without cholesterol. In all the lipid systems studied the order parameter (P2) of TMA-DPH molecules was found to be higher than that for DPH. Considerations of the order parameter (P4), however, indicate that DPH molecules have a heterogeneous distribution in bilayers of unsaturated lipids, with a significant fraction of the molecules lying with their long axes parallel to the bilayer planes. Both the DPH and TMA-DPH molecules exhibit a decrease in the molecular order as well as a decrease in their rates of motion on increasing the unsaturation of the hydrocarbon chains. The addition of cholesterol tends to reverse this effect, with an increase in both the order and dynamics. Bilayers of DOPC, however, exhibit a somewhat different result. It is suggested that the discrepancies between these observations and findings with lipid vesicle systems simply reflect the effects of curvature on the behavior of the probe molecules. The results indicate that the concept of membrane fluidity must be used with great caution.
ISSN:0006-2960
1520-4995
DOI:10.1021/bi00403a003