Fluorine-19 nuclear magnetic resonance studies of lipid phase transitions in model and biological membranes
- 25 July 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Biochemistry
- Vol. 17 (15) , 3023-3038
- https://doi.org/10.1021/bi00608a014
Abstract
Fluorinated fatty acids of the general formula CH3(CH2)13-mCF2(CH2)m-2COOH are informative spectroscopic probes of the gel to liquid-crystalline phase transitions in phospholipid dispersions and in biological membranes. Theoretical considerations were presented to suggest that the 19F NMR line shapes are very different for frozen and fluid lipid regions. Studies confirm this expectation for mixed phospholipid multilamellar dispersions containing a trace of difluoromyristate. The method correctly measures the onset and completion temperatures of the transition in the well-studied dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine-distearoylphosphatidylcholine system and also describes the motional behavior of the solid and fluid phases within the transition. Lipids extracted from Escherichia coli membranes show similar motional phenomena through the transition-temperature range according to 19F NMR studies of difluoromyristate biosynthetically incorporated into the K1060B5 strain, an unsaturated fatty acid auxotroph. Intact cells or membrane vesicles show substantially different behavior from extracted lipids, indicating that membrane proteins significantly perturb the phase transition. Evidence presented in this paper also shows that the 19F resonance from E. coli phospholipids is sensitive to various intramembrane interactions. There is a general decrease in restriction of motion due to neutral lipids and an opposite effect due to the architecture of the native membrane. Neither effect is temperature sensitive. There are interactions in the intact membrane, affecting the 19F resonance, that are temperature dependent both due to the phase-transition process and due to processes occurring at high temperatures.This publication has 19 references indexed in Scilit:
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