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Lateral diffusion of lipids and glycophorin in solid phosphatidylcholine bilayers. The role of structural defects.

Abstract：

:The lateral mobility of the lipid analog N-4-nitrobenzo-2-oxa-1,3 diazole phosphatidylethanolamine and of the integral protein glycophorin in giant dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles was studied by the photobleaching technique. Above the temperature of the chain-melting transition (Tm = 23 degrees C), the diffusion coefficient, Dp, of the protein [Dp = (4 +/- 2) X 10(-8) cm2/s at 30 degrees C] was within the experimental errors equal to the corresponding values DL of the lipid analog. In the P beta 1 phase the diffusion of lipid and glycophorin was studied as a function of the probe and the protein concentration. (a) At low lipid-probe content (cL less than 5 mmol/mol of total lipid), approximately 20% of the probe diffuses fast (D approximately equal to 10(-8) - 10(-9) cm2/s), while the mobility of the rest is strongly reduced (D less than 10(-10) cm2/s). At a higher concentration (cp approximately 20 mmol), all probe is immobilized (D less than 10(-10) cm2/s). (b) Incorporation of glycophorin up to cp = 0.4 mmol/mol of total lipid leads to a gradual increase of the fraction of mobile lipid probe due to the lateral-phase separation into a pure P beta 1 phase and a fraction of lipid that is fluidized by strong hydrophilic lipid-protein interaction. (c) The diffusion of the glycophorin molecules is characterized by a slow and a fast fraction. The latter increases with increasing protein content, which is again due to the lateral-phase separation caused by the hydrophilic lipid-protein interaction. The results are interpreted in terms of a fast transport along linear defects in the P beta 1 phase, which form quasi-fluid paths for a nearly one dimensional and thus very effective transport. Evidence for this interpretation of the diffusion measurements is provided by freeze-fracture electron microscopy.

journal_name

Biophys J

journal_title

Biophysical journal

authors

Kapitza HG,Rüppel DA,Galla HJ,Sackmann E

doi

10.1016/S0006-3495(84)84195-8

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1984-03-01 00:00:00

pages

577-87

issue

eissn

0006-3495

issn

1542-0086

pii

S0006-3495(84)84195-8

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Lateral diffusion of lipids and glycophorin in solid phosphatidylcholine bilayers. The role of structural defects.