Effects of hydrostatic pressure on bilayer phase behavior and dynamics of dilauroylphosphatidylcholine.
AUTOR(ES)
Bonev, B
RESUMO
Deuterium nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy was used to study the thermotropic phase behavior of dilauroylphosphatidylcholine (DLPC) bilayers at pressures up to 221 MPa. Pressure was found to separate the liquid crystal to gel transition from the gel to ordered crystalline phase transition. The jump in chain order observed on cooling through the transition into the gel phase was found to be small and thus consistent with the trend in longer chain saturated diacyl phosphatidylcholines. On cooling, DLPC was observed to enter an unusual state above the transition into the gel phase. This unusual state displayed fluid-like conformational order but short transverse relaxation times. It was found to be much better pronounced and to span a broader temperature range at elevated pressure than at lower pressures. Transverse relaxation measurements of deuterons on the chain alpha-carbons revealed a substantial slowing of molecular motions within the temperature range of the unusual fluid phase. The observation of such a phase at high pressure appears to be consistent with recent reports of an unusual fluid phase, Lx, in DLPC at ambient pressure.
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