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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 111, Issue 14, Pages 3665-3673Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp068685y
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The current work makes use of different fluorescent reporter molecules and fluorescent spectroscopic techniques to characterize the thermotropic, physical, and dynamical properties of large unilamellar liposomes formed from either 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) or 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-[phospho-rac-glycerol] (DMPG) encapsulated in sol-gel matrixes. In particular, cooperativity of the phase transition is analyzed from steady-state fluorescence anisotropy of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH), the interfacial properties are studied by measuring the spectral shift of Laurdan, and the structural organization (heterogeneity) of the lipid bilayer is determined from the fluorescence lifetime of trans-parinaric acid (t-PnA). In addition, information regarding order and dynamical properties in the bulk hydrophobic core is obtained from time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy of t-PnA and 3-(4-(6-phenyl)-1,3,5-hexatrienyl)-phenylpropionic acid (PA-DPH). The spectroscopic study reveals that upon encapsulation, the basic thermodynamic properties as well as the fluidity of the lipid bilayer practically remain intact for DMPG liposomes but not for DMPC liposomes, whose lipid bilayer exhibits large gel-fluid heterogeneity. On the basis of these experimental results, electrostatic interactions between phospholipid polar heads and the porous surface of the host matrix seem to play a capital role for the preservation of the structural integrity of encapsulated bilayer.
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