Akyüz, Sevim and Davies, J. Eric D. (1993) Temperature-dependent Fourier transform infrared spectra of phospholipid bilayers: melittin- and cholesterol-induced effects on molecular organization. Vibrational Spectroscopy, 4 (2). pp. 199-206.
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The perturbations induced by melittin and cholesterol on the molecular organization of dimyristoyl- -α-phosphatidylcholine (DMPC) bilayers, depending on the temperature and concentrations of both melittin and cholesterol, were studied using FT-IR spectrometry. Analysis of the amide I and amide II bands of melittin indicates that melittin exists as a monomer at all temperatures in the DMPC-melittin system (lipid:protein molar ratio R = 14:1) and in DMPC-cholesterol-melittin dispersions (R = 14 and 25) for low cholesterol concentrations (10 mol%). However in the DMPC-cholesterol-melittin systems with high cholesterol (20 mol%) and high melittin (R = 14) concentrations, melittin is found to be in a tetrameric form at T > Tm. The melittin-induced effects in DMPC bilayers containing a low melittin concentration (R = 25) are found to decrease on addition of cholesterol (10 or 20 mol%). Cholesterol, however, has the opposite effect in DMPC-cholesterol-melittin systems containing high cholesterol (20 mol%) and high melittin concentrations (R = 14), i.e., and increased lipid-protein interaction. Cholesterol- and melittin-induced effects on the spectral features of the phospholipid are discussed.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Journal or Publication Title: | Vibrational Spectroscopy |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Infrared spectrometry ; Cholesterol ; Fourier transform ; Melittin ; Molecular organization ; Phospholipid bilayers |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences |
| Departments: | UNSPECIFIED |
| ID Code: | 22568 |
| Deposited By: | ep_ss_importer |
| Deposited On: | 23 Jan 2009 11:32 |
| Refereed?: | Yes |
| Published?: | Published |
| Last Modified: | 26 Jul 2012 16:02 |
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| URI: | http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/22568 |
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