Journal
CHEMPHYSCHEM
Volume 20, Issue 11, Pages 1521-1526Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.201900126
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [RTG 1947]
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Cardiolipin (CL) plays an important role in administering the structural organization of biological membranes and therefore helps maintaining the integer membrane functionality. CL has a dimeric structure consisting of four acyl chains and two phosphate groups. With its unusual structure, the phospholipid is responsible for curvature formation in CL containing biological membranes. The acidic properties of the phosphate head groups are still not sufficiently investigated since there are controversial results in literature. The main aim of this work was to gain deeper insights into the influence of the pH on the ionization degree of CL. During the experiments, it became clear that the used ultrapure water contained traces of calcium. These unexpected calcium ions had a major impact on the behavior of CL monolayers. Therefore, the focus was put on the analysis of CL layers without and with EDTA in the subphase used to complex divalent calcium ions. For the analyses, traditional surface pressure (pi) - molecular area (A) isotherm experiments combined with total reflection x-ray fluorescence (TRXF) and grazing incidence x-ray diffraction (GIXD) have been used.
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