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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1979-4-25
pubmed:abstractText
Raman spectroscopic data indicate that the conformations of the two hydrocarbon chains of dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine in aqueous dispersions of the lipid differ signficantly. The compounds 1-palmitoyl, 2-palmitoyl-d31-3-sn-phosphatidylcholine and 1-palmitoyl-d31, 2-palmitoyl-3-sn-phosphatidylcholine were synthesized. Aqueous dispersions of these phospholipids display very similar phase behavior, with both premelting and melting transitions at nearly identical temperatures, midway between the comparable transition temperatures of undeuterated and completely deuterated dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine. We have monitored the state of chains 1 and 2 of these molecules simultaneously and independently by Raman spectroscopy. Raman difference spectra taken between samples of the two compounds under identical conditions show significant features. We attribute these spectral differences to nonequivalent conformations of the fatty acyl chains attached at positions 1 and 2 on the glycerol backbone. Below the pretransition the conformation of chain 2 is, on average, slightly less all-trans than is the chain at position 1. There is some evidence that the conformations of the terminal methyl group of the two chains are significantly different at low temperatures.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0006-3495
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
677-88
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1978
pubmed:articleTitle
Conformational nonequivalence of chains 1 and 2 of dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine as observed by Raman spectroscopy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article