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Gramicidin Increases Lipid Flip-Flop in Symmetric and Asymmetric Lipid Vesicles.

Abstract：

:Unlike most transmembrane proteins, phospholipids can migrate from one leaflet of the membrane to the other. Because this spontaneous lipid translocation (flip-flop) tends to be very slow, cells facilitate the process with enzymes that catalyze the transmembrane movement and thereby regulate the transbilayer lipid distribution. Nonenzymatic membrane-spanning proteins with unrelated primary functions have also been found to accelerate lipid flip-flop in a nonspecific manner and by various hypothesized mechanisms. Using deuterated phospholipids, we examined the acceleration of flip-flop by gramicidin channels, which have well-defined structures and known functions, features that make them ideal candidates for probing the protein-membrane interactions underlying lipid flip-flop. To study compositionally and isotopically asymmetric proteoliposomes containing gramicidin, we expanded a recently developed protocol for the preparation and characterization of lipid-only asymmetric vesicles. Channel incorporation, conformation, and function were examined with small angle x-ray scattering, circular dichroism, and a stopped-flow spectrofluorometric assay, respectively. As a measure of lipid scrambling, we used differential scanning calorimetry to monitor the effect of gramicidin on the melting transition temperatures of the two bilayer leaflets. The two calorimetric peaks of the individual leaflets merged into a single peak over time, suggestive of scrambling, and the effect of the channel on the transbilayer lipid distribution in both symmetric 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine and asymmetric 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine/1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine vesicles was quantified from proton NMR measurements. Our results show that gramicidin increases lipid flip-flop in a complex, concentration-dependent manner. To determine the molecular mechanism of the process, we used molecular dynamics simulations and further computational analysis of the trajectories to estimate the extent of membrane deformation. Together, the experimental and computational approaches were found to constitute an effective means for studying the effects of transmembrane proteins on lipid distribution in both symmetric and asymmetric model membranes.

journal_name

Biophys J

journal_title

Biophysical journal

authors

Doktorova M,Heberle FA,Marquardt D,Rusinova R,Sanford RL,Peyear TA,Katsaras J,Feigenson GW,Weinstein H,Andersen OS

doi

10.1016/j.bpj.2019.01.016

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2019-03-05 00:00:00

pages

860-873

issue

eissn

0006-3495

issn

1542-0086

pii

S0006-3495(19)30051-7

journal_volume

116

pub_type

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Gramicidin Increases Lipid Flip-Flop in Symmetric and Asymmetric Lipid Vesicles.