Poly(ethylene glycol)-lipid conjugates promote bilayer formation in mixtures of non-bilayer-forming lipids

Biochemistry
J W HollandT D Madden

Abstract

The influence of poly(ethylene glycol)-lipid conjugates on phospholipid polymorphism has been examined using 31P-NMR and freeze--fracture electron microscopy. An equimolar mixture of dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DOPE) and cholesterol adopts the hexagonal (HII) phase when hydrated under physiological conditions but can be stabilized in a bilayer conformation when a variety of PEG-lipid conjugates are included in the lipid mixture. These PEG conjugates produced an increase in the bilayer to hexagonal (HII) phase transition temperature and a broadening of the temperature range over which both phases coexisted. Further, the fraction of phospholipid adopting the bilayer phase increased with increasing mole fraction of PEG-lipid such that at 20 mole % DOPE--PEG2000 no HII phase phospholipid was observed up to a least 60 degrees C. Increasing the size of the PEG moiety from 2000 to 5000 Da (while maintaining the PEG--lipid molar ratio constant) increased the proportion of lipid in the bilayer phase. In contrast, varying the acyl chains of the PE anchor had no effect on polymorphic behavior. PEG--lipid conjugates in which ceramide provides the hydrophobic anchor also promoted bilayer formation in DOPE:cholesterol mixtures but at s...Continue Reading

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