Freeze fracture electron microscopy of lyotropic lipid systems: quantitative analysis of the inverse micellar cubic phase of space group Fd3m (Q227)

Journal of Molecular Biology
H DelacroixJ M Seddon

Abstract

An inverse micellar cubic phase of cubic aspect 15 formed by dioleoylglycerol/dioleoylphosphatidylcholine mixtures has been studied by freeze fracture electron microscopy. The structure was well preserved after freezing samples which had been hydrated either in pure water or in 30 vol% aqueous glycerol solutions. Electron microscopy images of high quality and resolution have been obtained. Four types of fracture planes, perpendicular to the [111], [110], [311] and [100] crystallographic axes, were identified by optical diffraction of the images from selected areas of the replicas. This is the largest number of different fracture planes yet observed in any lipid mesophase by electron microscopy. These planes are also perpendicular to the directions of the lowest order, and most intense reflections in the X-ray patterns from this cubic phase. The images were filtered using correlation averaging techniques, and they revealed the presence of mirror planes, which establishes that the space group is Fd3m (Q227) rather than Fd3. The interpretation of the images was aided by the novel use of standard deviation (s.d.) information obtained from the averaging procedures. The results are easily interpreted with the structure model deduced ...Continue Reading

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