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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-8-27
pubmed:abstractText
The first study of enzymatic hydrolysis of phospholipid tubules is reported. Phosphatidylcholines with acyl chains containing diacetylene groups are known to form tubular microstructures in which the lipids are tightly packed and crystalline. These tubules can be used to probe the role of microstructural form in the mechanics of interfacial enzymatic degradation by such enzymes as phospholipase A2 (PLA2). Hydrolysis by PLA2 may occur most rapidly in regions having the greatest number of bilayer packing defects, such as those that must be found at tubule ends. A microstructure that degrades primarily from its ends should exhibit zero-order kinetics, because the area of the degrading tubule and remains constant as the length of the microstructure decreases. Free fatty acid concentration was measured to follow the generation of PLA2 hydrolysis products in suspensions of diacetylenic phospholipid tubules. The kinetics of tubule hydrolysis were essentially zero-order until conversion was complete, as predicted. However, microscopy of partially hydrolyzed tubules revealed the formation of multiple discrete anionic product domains along the length of degrading tubules as well as in insoluble reaction product microstructures. Furthermore, the rate of tubule hydrolysis was only moderately enhanced by increasing the number of tubule ends, which is consistent with the conclusion that tubule ends are not the only sites of hydrolysis. A model that reconciles the overall kinetics with the morphological evidence is proposed.
pubmed:grant
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0006-3495
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
73
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
230-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-13
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Zero-order interfacial enzymatic degradation of phospholipid tubules.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington, Seattle 98195, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't