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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-3-1
pubmed:abstractText
Lateral organization of cholesterol in dioleoyl-phosphatidylcholine (DOPC) lipid bilayers at high cholesterol concentration (>45 mol%) was investigated using steady-state fluorescence anisotropy and fluorescent resonance energy transfer techniques. The recently devised Low Temperature Trap method was used to prepare compositionally uniform cholesterol/DOPC liposomes to avoid the problem of lipid demixing. The fluorescence anisotropy of diphenylhexatrience chain-labeled phosphatidylcholine (DPH-PC) in these liposomes exhibited local maxima at cholesterol mol fractions of 0.50 and 0.57, and a sharp drop at 0.67. For the liposomes labeled with both dehydroergosterol and DPH-PC, the fluorescent resonance energy transfer efficiency from dehydroergosterol to DPH-PC displayed a steep jump at cholesterol mol fraction of 0.5, and dips at 0.57 and 0.68. These results indicate the presence of highly ordered cholesterol regular distribution domains at those observed critical compositions. The observed critical mol fraction at 0.67 agreed favorably with the solubility limit of cholesterol in DOPC bilayers as independently measured by light scattering and optical microscopy. The regular distribution at 0.57 was previously predicted from a Monte Carlo simulation based on the Umbrella model. The results strongly support the hypothesis that the primary requirement for cholesterol-phospholipid mixing is that the polar phospholipid headgroups need to cover the nonpolar body of cholesterol to avoid the exposure of cholesterol to water.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Mar
pubmed:issn
0006-3495
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
86
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1532-44
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Lateral distribution of cholesterol in dioleoylphosphatidylcholine lipid bilayers: cholesterol-phospholipid interactions at high cholesterol limit.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Physics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas 79409, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't