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Spectroscopy Study of Albumin Interaction with Negatively Charged Liposome Membranes: Mutual Structural Effects of the Protein and the Bilayers

Journal

MEMBRANES
Volume 12, Issue 11, Pages -

Publisher

MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/membranes12111031

Keywords

protein adsorption; albumin; liposome-protein complexes; fluorescence spectroscopy; ATR-FTIR

Funding

  1. Russian Science Foundation [21-74-20177]

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This study examined the mutual effects of albumin and liposomal membrane in terms of quantity of bound protein, its structure, liposome membrane permeability, and changes in physicochemical characteristics of the liposomes. The results showed that a small amount of tightly bound protein had a detectable impact on the liposome, and the composition of the liposome bilayer and its microhydrophobicity were partially related to albumin conformational changes. Ganglioside GM(1) showed preferable features for evading undesirable structural changes.
Liposomes as drug carriers are usually injected into the systemic circulation where they are instantly exposed to plasma proteins. Liposome-protein interactions can affect both the stability of liposomes and the conformation of the associated protein leading to the altered biodistribution of the carrier. In this work, mutual effects of albumin and liposomal membrane in the course of the protein's adsorption were examined in terms of quantity of bound protein, its structure, liposome membrane permeability, and changes in physicochemical characteristics of the liposomes. Fluorescence spectroscopy methods and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), which provides information about specific groups in lipids involved in interaction with the protein, were used to monitor adsorption of albumin with liposomes based on egg phosphatidylcholine with various additives of negatively charged lipidic components, such as phosphatidylinositol, ganglioside GM(1), or the acidic lipopeptide. Less than a dozen of the protein molecules were tightly bound to a liposome independently of bilayer composition, yet they had a detectable impact on the bilayer. Albumin conformational changes during adsorption were partially related to bilayer microhydrophobicity. Ganglioside GM(1) showed preferable features for evading undesirable structural changes.

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