Molecular order and dynamics in bilayers consisting of highly polyunsaturated phospholipids

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 2 I, 1998, Pages 879-891

  Mitchell, Drake C ^a   Litman, Burton J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; FLUORESCENCE POLARIZATION; LIPID BILAYER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHOSPHOLIPID MEMBRANE; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0031881028     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(98)74011-1     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. Alcala, J. R., E. Gratton, and F. G. Prendergast. 1987. Resolvability of lifetime distributions using phase fluorometry. Biophys. J. 51:587-596.
2. Ameloot, M., H. Hendrickx, W. Herreman, H. Pottel, F. van Cauwelaert, and W. van der Meer. 1984. Effect of orientational order on the decay of the fluorescence anisotropy in membrane suspensions. Experimental verification on unilamellar vesicles, and lipid/alpha-lactalbumin complexes. Biophys. J. 46:525-539.
3. Beechem, J. M., E. Gratton, M. Ameloot, J. R. Knutson, and L. Brand. 1991. The global analysis of fluorescence intensity and anisotropy decay data. In Second Generation Theory and Programs. Topics in Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Vol. 2, Principles. J. R. Lakowicz, editor. Plenum Press, New York. 241-305.
4. Bernsdorff, C., A. Wolf, R. Winter, and E. Gratton. 1997. Effect of hydrostatic pressure on water penetration and rotational dynamics in phospholipid-cholesterol bilayers. Biophys. J. 72:1264-1277.
5. Best, L., E. John, and F. Jahnig. 1987. Order and fluidity of lipid membranes as determined by fluorescence anisotropy decay. Eur. Biophys. J. 15:87-102.
6. Caffrey, M. 1993. LIPIDAT. A Database of Thermodynamic Data and Associated Information on Lipid Mesomorphic and Polymorphic Transitions. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.
7. Chen, L. A., R. E. Dale, S. Roth, and L. Brand. 1977. Nanosecond time-dependent fluorescence depolarization of diphenylhexatriene in dimyristoyl-lecithin vesicles and the determination of "microviscosity." J. Biol. Chem. 252:2163-2169.
8. Deinum, G., H. van Langen, G. van Ginkel, and Y. K. Levine. 1988. Molecular order and dynamics in planar lipid bilayers: effects of unsaturation and sterols. Biochemistry. 27:852-860.
9. Grell, E. 1981. Membrane Spectroscopy. Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
10. Hernandez-Borrell, J., and K. M. W. Keough. 1993. Heteroacid phosphatidylcholines with different amounts of unsaturation respond differently to cholesterol. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1153:277-282.
11. 2H nuclear magnetic resonance order profiles suggest a change of molecular shape for phosphatidylcholines containing a polyunsaturated acyl chain. Biophys. J. 68:2396-2403.
12. 17O NMR. Biophys. J. 73:855-864.
13. Itoh, T., and B. E. Kohler. 1987. Dual fluorescence of diphenylpolyenes. J. Phys. Chem. 91:1760-1764.
14. Johnson, M. L., and L. M. Faunt. 1992. Parameter estimation by least squares methods. Methods Enzymol. 210:1-37.
15. Kariel, N., E. Davidson, and K. Keough. 1991. Cholesterol does not remove the gel liquid crystalline phase transition of phosphatidylcholines containing two polyenoic acyl chains. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1062:70-76.
16. Kinosita, K., Jr., S. Kawato, and A. Ikegami. 1977. A theory of fluorescence depolarization decay in membranes. Biophys. J. 20:289-305.
17. Lakowicz, J. R., H. Cherek, and A. Balter. 1981. Correction of timing errors in photomultiplier tubes used n phase modulation fluorometry. J. Biochem. Biophys. Methods. 5:131-146.
18. 2H nuclear magnetic resonance. Biophys. J. 56:1037-1041.
19. Lentz, B. R. 1993. Use of fluorescence probes to monitor molecular order and motions within liposome bilayers. Chem. Phys. Lipids. 64:99-116.
20. Levine, Y. K., and G. van Ginkel. 1994. Molecular dynamics in liquid-crystalline systems studied by fluorescence depolarization techniques. In The Molecular Dynamics of Liquid Crystals. G. R. Luckhurst and C. A. Veracini, editors. Kluwer Academic, Amsterdam. 537-571.
21. Lipari, G., and A. Szabo. 1981. Pade approximants to correlation functions for restricted rotational diffusion. J. Chem. Phys. 75:2971-2976.
22. Litman, B. J., E. N. Lewis, and I. W. Levine. 1991. Packing characteristics of highly unsaturated bilayer lipids: Raman spectroscopic studies of multilamellar phosphatidylcholine dispersions. Biochemistry. 30: 313-319.
23. Litman, B. J., and D. C. Mitchell. 1996. A role for phospholipid polyunsaturation in modulating membrane protein function. Lipids. 31: s193-s197.
24. Miljanich, G. P., L. A. Sklar, D. L. White, and E. A. Dratz. 1979. Disaturated and dipolyunsaturated phospholipids in the bovine retinal rod outer segment disk membrane. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 552: 294-306.
25. Mitchell, D. C., M. Straume, and B. J. Litman. 1992. Role of sn-1 saturated, sn-2 polyunsaturated phospholipids in control of membrane receptor conformational equilibrium: effects of cholesterol and acyl chain unsaturation on the metarhodopsin I:metarhodopsin II equilibrium. Biochemistry. 31:662-670.
26. Mitchell, D. C. M. Straume, J. L. Miller, and B. J. Litman. 1990. Modulation of metarhodopsin formation by cholesterol-induced ordering of bilayer lipids. Biochemistry. 29:9143-9149.
27. Muller, J. M., G. van Ginkel, and E. E. van Faassen. 1996. Effect of lipid molecular structure and gramacidin A on the core of lipid vesicle bilayers. A time-resolved fluorescence study. Biochemistry. 35: 488-497.
28. Needham, D., and R. S. Nunn. 1990. Elastic deformation and failure of lipid membranes containing cholesterol. Biophys. J. 58:997-1009.
29. Niebylski, C., and N. J. Salem. 1994. A calorimetric investigation of a series of mixed-chain polyunsaturated phosphatidylcholines: effect of sn-2 chain length and degree of unsaturation. Biophys. J. 67:2387-2393.
30. Pottel, H., W. Herreman, B. W. Van Der Meer, and M. Ameloot. 1986. On the significance of the fourth-rank orientational order parameter of fluorophores in membranes. Chem. Phys. 102:37-44.
31. Salem, N. Jr. 1986. Fatty acids: molecular and biochemical aspects. In New Protective Roles For Selected Nutrients, G. A. Spiller and J. Scala, editors. Alan R. Liss Inc., New York. 109-228.
32. Stinson, A. M., R. D. Wiegand, and R. E. Anderson. 1991. Fatty acid and molecular species compositions of phospholipids and diacylglycerols from art retina membranes. Exp. Eye Res. 52:213-218.
33. Straume, M., S. G. Frasier-Cadoret, and M. L. Johnson. 1991. Least-squares analysis of fluorescence data. In Topics in Fluorescence Spectroscopy, Vol. 2. J. Lakowicz, editor. Plenum Press, New York. 177-240.
34. Straume, M., and B. J. Litman. 1987a. Equilibrium and dynamic structure of large, unilamellar, unsaturated acyl chain phosphatidylcholine vesicles. Higher order analysis of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene and 1-[4-(trimethylammonio)phenyl]-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene anisotropy decay. Biochemistry. 26:5113-5120.
35. Straume, M., and B. J. Litman. 1987b. Influence of cholesterol on equilibrium and dynamic bilayer structure of unsaturated acyl chain phosphatidylcholine vesicles as determined from higher order analysis of fluorescence anisotropy decay. Biochemistry. 26:5121-5126.
36. Straume, M., and B. J. Litman. 1988. Equilibrium and dynamic bilayer structural properties of unsaturated acyl chain phosphatidylcholine-cholesterol-rhodopsin recombinant vesicles and rod outer segment disk membranes as determined from higher order analysis of fluorescence anisotropy decay. Biochemistry. 27:7723-7733.
37. Szabo, A. 1984. Theory of fluorescence depolarization in macromolecules and membranes. J. Chem. Phys. 81:150-167.
38. 2H NMR spectroscopy. Biochemistry. 33:13178-13188.
39. Toptygin, D., J. Svobodova, I. Konopasek, and L. Brand. 1992. Fluorescence decay and depolarization in membranes. J. Chem. Phys. 96: 7919-7930.
40. Toptygin, D., and L. Brand. 1993. Fluorescence decay of DPH in lipid membranes: influence of the external refractive index. Biophys. Chem. 48:205-220.
41. van der Meer, B. W., R. P. H. Kooyman, and Y. K. Levine. 1982. A theory of fluorescence depolarization in macroscopically ordered membrane systems. Chem. Phys. 66:39-46.
42. van der Meer, B. W., H. Pottel, W. Herreman, M. Ameloot, H. Hendrickx, and H. Schroder. 1984. Effect of orientational order on the decay of the fluorescence anisotropy in membrane suspensions. Biophys J. 46: 515-523.
43. van Ginkel, G., H. Van Langen, and Y. K. Levine. 1989. The membrane fluidity concept revisited by polarized fluorescence spectroscopy on different model membranes containing unsaturated lipids and sterols. Biochimie. 71:23-32.
44. van Gurp, M., T. van Heijnsbergen, G. van Ginkel, and Y. K. Levine. 1989. Determination of transition moment directions in molecules of symmetry using polarized fluorescence. II. Applications to pyranine, perylene, and DPH. J. Chem. Phys. 90:4103-4111.
45. van Langen, H., D. Engelen, G. van Ginkel, and Y. K. Levine. 1987a. Headgroup hydration in egg-lecithin multibilayers affects the behavior of DPH probes. Chem. Phys. Lett. 138:99-104.
46. van Langen, H., Y. K. Levine, M. Ameloot, and H. Pottel. 1987b. Ambiguities in the interpretation of time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy measurements on lipid vesicle systems. Chem. Phys. Lett. 140:394-400.
47. van Langen, H., G. van Ginkel, D. Shaw, and Y. K. Levine. 1989. The fidelity of response of 1-[4-(trimethylammonio)phenyl]-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene in time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy measurements on lipid vesicles. Eur. Biophys. J. 17:37-44.
48. Wang, S., J. M. Beechem, E. Gratton, and M. Glaser. 1991. Orientational distribution of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene in phospholipid vesicles as determined by global analysis of frequency domain fluorimetry data. Biochemistry. 30:5565-72.
49. Zerouga, M., L. J. Jenski, and W. Stillwell. 1995. Comparison of phosphatidylcholines containing one or two docosahexaenoic acyl chains on properties of phospholipid monolayers and bilayers. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1236:266-272.