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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
卷 17, 期 41, 页码 27534-27547出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c5cp04191k
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- FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal [N. SFRH/BD/65375/2009, PTDC/BBB-BQB/2661/2012, UID/QUI/00313/2013]
- PRACE-2IP project [FP7 RI-283493]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [SFRH/BD/65375/2009, PTDC/BBB-BQB/2661/2012] Funding Source: FCT
A complete homologous series of fluorescent 7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-yl-(NBD) labelled fatty amines of varying alkyl chain lengths, NBD-C-n, inserted in 1-palmitoyl, 2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) or N-palmitoyl sphingomyelin (SpM) bilayers, with 50 mol% and 40 mol% cholesterol (Chol), respectively, was studied using atomistic molecular dynamics simulations. For all amphiphiles in both bilayers, the NBD fluorophore locates at the interface, in a more external position than that previously observed for pure POPC bilayers. This shallower location of the NBD group agrees with the lower fluorescent quantum yield, shorter fluorescence lifetime, and higher ionisation constants (smaller pK(a)) determined experimentally. The more external location is also consistent with the changes measured in steady-state fluorescence anisotropy from POPC to POPC/Chol (1:1) vesicles. Accordingly, the equilibrium location of the NBD group within the various bilayers is mainly dictated by bilayer compositions, and is mostly unaffected by the length of the attached alkyl chain. Similarly to the behaviour observed in POPC bilayers, the longer-chained NBD-Cn amphiphiles show significant mass density near the mixed bilayers' midplanes, and the alkyl chains of the longer derivatives, mainly NBD-C-16, penetrate the opposite bilayer leaflet to some extent. However, this effect is quantitatively less pronounced in these ordered bilayers than in POPC. Similarly to POPC bilayers, the effects of these amphiphiles on the structure and dynamics of the host lipid were found to be relatively mild, in comparison with acyl-chain phospholipid analogues.
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