Characterization of the ternary mixture of sphingomyelin, POPC, and cholesterol: support for an inhomogeneous lipid distribution at high temperatures

Biophysical Journal
Andreas BungeDaniel Huster

Abstract

A ternary lipid mixture of palmitoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine (POPC), palmitoyl-erythro-sphingosylphosphorylcholine (PSM), and cholesterol at a mixing ratio of 37.5:37.5:25 mol/mol/mol was characterized using fluorescence microscopy, (2)H NMR, and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. The synthetic PSM provides an excellent molecule for studying the molecular properties of raft phases. It shows a narrow phase transition at a temperature of 311 K and is commercially available with a perdeuterated sn-2 chain. Fluorescence microscopy shows that large inhomogeneities in the mixed membranes are observed in the coexistence region of liquid-ordered and liquid-disordered lipid phases. Above 310 K, no optically detectable phase separation was shown. Upon decrease in temperature, a redistribution of the cholesterol into large liquid-ordered PSM/cholesterol domains and depletion of cholesterol from liquid-disordered POPC domains was observed by (2)H NMR and electron paramagnetic resonance experiments. However, there is no complete segregation of the cholesterol into the liquid-ordered phase and also POPC-rich domains contain the sterol in the phase coexistence region. We further compared order parameters and packing properties o...Continue Reading

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