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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES
Volume 1467, Issue 2, Pages 307-325Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0005-2736(00)00228-5
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dihydrosphingomyelin; human lens phospholipid; H-bonding; nuclear magnetic resonance; conformation; lipid-lipid interaction
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- NEI NIH HHS [EY11657] Funding Source: Medline
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The conformational features of dihydrosphingomyelin (DHSM), the major phospholipid of human lens membranes, were investigated by H-1 and P-31 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Several postulates emerge from the observed trends: (a) in partially hydrated samples of DHSM in CDCl3 above 13 mM, at which lipid-lipid interactions prevail, the amide proton is mostly involved in intermolecular H-bonds that link neighboring phospholipids through bridging water molecules. In the absence of water, the NH group is involved in an intramolecular H-bond that restricts the mobility of the phosphate group. (b) In the monomeric form of the lipid molecule, the amide proton of the major conformer is bound intramolecularly with one of the anionic and/or ester oxygens of the phosphate group. A minor conformer may also be present in which the NH proton participates in an intramolecular H-bond linking to the OH group of the sphingoid base. (c) Complete hydration leads to an extension of the head group as water molecules bind to the phosphate and NH groups via H-bonds, thus disrupting the intramolecular H-bonds prevalent at low concentrations. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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