Detection of membrane packing defects by time-resolved fluorescence depolarization.
AUTOR(ES)
Chen, S Y
RESUMO
Packing defects in lipid bilayer play a significant role in the biological activities of cell membranes. Time-resolved fluorescence depolarization has been used to detect and characterize the onset of packing defects in binary mixtures of dilinoleoylphosphatidylethanolamine/1-palmitoyl-2- oleoylphosphatidylcholine (PE/PC). These PE/PC mixtures exhibit mesoscopic packing defect state (D), as well as one-dimensional lambellar liquid crystalline (L alpha) and two-dimensional inverted hexagonal (HII) ordered phases. Based on previous electron microscopic investigations, this D state is characterized by the presence of interlamellar attachments and precursors of HII phase between the lipid layers. Using a rotational diffusion model for rod-shaped fluorophore in a curved matrix, rotational dynamics parameters, second rank order parameter, localized wobbling diffusion, and curvature-dependent rotational diffusion constants of dipyenylhexatriene (DPH)-labeled PC (DPH-PC) in the host PE/PC matrix were recovered from the measured fluorescence depolarization decays of DPH fluorescence. At approximately 60% PE, abrupt increases in these rotational dynamics parameters were observed, reflecting the onset of packing defects in the host PE/PC matrix. We have demonstrated that rotational dynamics parameters are very sensitive in detecting the onset of curvature-associating packing defects in lipid membranes. In addition, the presence of the D state can be characterized by the enhanced wobbling diffusional motion and order packing of lipid molecules, and by the presence of localized curvatures in the lipid layers.
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