Abstract：
:Intramolecular excimerization of 1,3-di-1-pyrenylpropane [Py(3)Py] was used to assess the fluidity of sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes (SR); on the basis of the spectral data, the probe incorporates completely inside the membrane probably somewhere close to the polar head groups of phospholipid molecules, however not in the very hydrophobic core. The excimerization rate is very sensitive to lipid phase transitions, as revealed by thermal profiles of dimyristoyl-phosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) bilayers. Cholesterol abolishes pretransitions and broadens the thermal profiles of the main transitions which vanish completely at 50 mol % sterol. Excimer formation in liposomes of SR total lipid extracts does not show any sharp transitions, as in the case of DMPC and DPPC. However, the plots display discontinuities at about 20 degrees C which are broadened by cholesterol and not observed at 50 mol % sterol. Also cholesterol has been incorporated in native SR membranes by an exchange technique allowing progressive enrichment without changing the phospholipid/protein molar ratio. As in liposomes, discontinuities of excimer formation at 20 degrees C are broadened by cholesterol enrichment. The full activity of uncoupled Ca2+-ATPase is only affected by cholesterol above a molar ratio to phospholipid of 0.4. However, a significant decrease in activity (about 20%) is only noticed at a ratio of 0.6 (the highest technically achieved); at this ratio, about 28 lipid molecules per Ca2+-ATPase are expected to be relatively free from cholesterol interaction. The vesicle structure is still intact at this high ratio, as judged from the absence of basal activity (not Ca2+ stimulated).(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Biochemistryjournal_title
Biochemistryauthors
Almeida LM,Vaz WL,Zachariasse KA,Madeira VMdoi
10.1021/bi00315a029subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1984-09-25 00:00:00pages
4714-20issue
20eissn
0006-2960issn
1520-4995journal_volume
23pub_type
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