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SOFT MATTER
卷 6, 期 23, 页码 5882-5890出版社
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c0sm00373e
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- UW
- National Science Foundation [MCB-0133484, MCB-0744852]
- NIH [5 T32 GM08268-20]
- NSF [MCB-0744852, DGE-0504573]
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [T32GM008268] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Here we use nuclear magnetic resonance to measure the solubility limit of several biologically relevant sterols in electroformed giant unilamellar vesicle membranes containing phosphatidylcholine (PC) lipids in ratios of 1 : 1 : X of DOPC : DPPC : sterol. We find solubility limits of cholesterol, lanosterol, ergosterol, stigmasterol, and beta-sitosterol to be 65-70 mol%, similar to 35 mol%, 30-35 mol%, 20-25 mol%, and similar to 40 mol%, respectively. The low solubilities of stigmasterol and beta-sitosterol, which differ from cholesterol only in their alkyl tails, show that subtle differences in tail structure can strongly affect sterol solubility. Below the solubility limits, the fraction of sterol to PC-lipid in electroformed vesicles linearly reflects the fraction in the original stock solutions used in the electroformation process.
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