The influence of polymer molecular weight in lamellar gels based on PEG-lipids

Biophysical Journal
H E WarrinerC R Safinya

Abstract

We report x-ray scattering, rheological, and freeze-fracture and polarizing microscopy studies of a liquid crystalline hydrogel called Lalpha,g. The hydrogel, found in DMPC, pentanol, water, and PEG-DMPE mixtures, differs from traditional hydrogels, which require high MW polymer, are disordered, and gel only at polymer concentrations exceeding an "overlap" concentration. In contrast, the Lalpha,g uses very low-molecular-weight polymer-lipids (1212, 2689, and 5817 g/mole), shows lamellar order, and requires a lower PEG-DMPE concentration to gel as water concentration increases. Significantly, the Lalpha,g contains fluid membranes, unlike Lbeta' gels, which gel via chain ordering. A recent model of gelation in Lalpha phases predicts that polymer-lipids both promote and stabilize defects; these defects, resisting shear in all directions, then produce elasticity. We compare our observations to this model, with particular attention to the dependence of gelation on the PEG MW used. We also use x-ray lineshape analysis of scattering from samples spanning the fluid-gel transition to obtain the elasticity coefficients kappa and B; this analysis demonstrates that although B in particular depends strongly on PEG-DMPE concentration, gelati...Continue Reading

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