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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-2-25
pubmed:abstractText
There is a marked hysteresis between the heating and cooling polymorphic phase transition of anhydrous cholesterol. At a scan rate of 0.05 degrees C/min the difference in transition temperatures between heating and cooling scans is approximately 10 degrees C. This phenomenon also occurs with mixtures of cholesterol with phosphatidylserine and can result in an underestimation of the amount of crystalline cholesterol in a sample that has not been cooled sufficiently. With 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl phosphatidylserine and 1-stearoyl-2-oleoyl phosphatidylserine the cholesterol crystallites form while the lipid remains in the L(alpha) phase. Sonication of dimyristoyl phosphatidylserine with a 0.4 mol fraction cholesterol results in the loss of cholesterol crystallite diffraction, but only a partial loss of the polymorphic transition detected by calorimetry. We therefore conclude that the thermal history of the sample can have profound effects on the appearance of the polymorphic phase transition of cholesterol by differential scanning calorimetry. Depending on the morphology of the vesicles, diffraction methods may underevaluate the amount of cholesterol crystallites present.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0006-3495
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
78
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
866-73
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Cholesterol crystalline polymorphism and the solubility of cholesterol in phosphatidylserine.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5, Canada. epand@fhs.csu.mcmaster.ca
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't