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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 96, Issue 12, Pages 4916-4924Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2009.03.033
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- National Institutes of Health
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The widely used hydrophobic cannabinoid ligand CP-55,940 partitions with high efficiency into biomembranes. We studied the location, orientation, and dynamics of CP-55,940 in POPC bilayers by solid-state NMR. Chemical-shift perturbation of POPC protons from the aromatic ring-current effect, as well as H-1 NMR cross-relaxation rates, locate the hydroxyphenyl ring of the ligand near the lipid glycerol, carbonyls, and upper acyl-chain methylenes. Order parameters of the hydroxyphenyl ring determined by the H-1-C-13 DIPSHIFT experiment indicate that the bond between the hydroxyphenyl and hydroxycyclohexyl rings is oriented perpendicular to the bilayer normal. H-2 NMR order parameters of the nonyl tail are very low, indicating that the hydrophobic chain maintains a high level of conformational flexibility in the membrane. Lateral diffusion rates of CP-55,940 and POPC were measured by H-1 magic-angle spinning NMR with pulsed magnetic field gradients. The rate of CP-55,940 diffusion is comparable to the rate of lipid diffusion. The magnitude of cross-relaxation and diffusion rates suggests that associations between CP-55,940 and lipids are with lifetimes of a fraction of a microsecond. With its flexible hydrophobic tail, CP-55,940 may efficiently approach the binding site of the cannabinoid receptor from the lipid-water interface by lateral diffusion.
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