PMID: 3754153Feb 11, 1986Paper

Phospholipid lateral organization in synthetic membranes as monitored by pyrene-labeled phospholipids: effects of temperature and prothrombin fragment 1 binding

Biochemistry
M E Jones, B R Lentz

Abstract

Pyrene-labeled phospholipids have been used to test for the existence of lateral domains due to temperature-induced phase separations and binding of prothrombin fragment 1 to charged lipid vesicles. When in close proximity, pyrene-containing probes can exchange excited-state energy to form excimers; the ratio of the excimer to monomer fluorescence intensity (E/M) is proportional to the local concentration of probe in the membranes, as well as to the excimer lifetime and the probe's lateral diffusion coefficient. The ability of the pyrene-labeled phospholipids to quantitatively report the coexistence of multiple environments was demonstrated in dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine/palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine multilamellar vesicle preparations of varying compositions, each of which contained coexisting fluid and gel phases. In this system, pyrene-labeled phosphatidylcholine was found to favor the fluid relative to the gel phase with a partition coefficient of 7. At 37 degrees C, in dioleoylphosphatidylglycerol (DOPG)/palmitoyloleoylphosphatidylcholine (POPC) large, unilamellar vesicles containing either pyrene-labeled phosphatidylglycerol (py-PG) or pyrene-labeled phosphatidylcholine (py-PC), the excimer lifetime (37 ns) and the...Continue Reading

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