期刊
BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-BIOMEMBRANES
卷 1858, 期 11, 页码 2647-2661出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2016.07.013
关键词
Diphenylhexatriene; Fluorescence; Lipid bilayer; Membrane probe; Molecular dynamics simulation
资金
- FEDER, through the COMPETE program
- FCT (Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia, Portugal) [FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-010787 (FCT PTDC/QUI-QUI/098198/2008)]
- Fundacao para a Ciencia e Tecnologia (Portugal) [UID/QUI/00313/2013]
- Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia [UID/QUI/00313/2013] Funding Source: FCT
Fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopy have been utilized as tools in membrane biophysics for decades now. Because phospholipids are non-fluorescent, the use of extrinsic membrane probes in this context is commonplace. Among the latter, 1,6-diphenylhexatriene (DPH) and its trimethylammonium derivative (TMA-DPH) have been extensively used. It is widely believed that, owing to its additional charged group, TMA-DPH is anchored at the lipid/water interface and reports on a bilayer region that is distinct from that of the hydrophobic DPH. In this study, we employ atomistic MD simulations to characterize the behavior of DPH and TMA-DPH in 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) and POPC/cholesterol (4:1) bilayers. We show that although the dynamics of TMA-DPH in these membranes is noticeably more hindered than that of DPH, the location of the average fluorophore of TMA-DPH is only similar to 3-4 angstrom more shallow than that of DPH. The hindrance observed in the translational and rotational motions of TMA-DPH compared to DPH is mainly not due to significant differences in depth, but to the favorable electrostatic interactions of the former with electronegative lipid atoms instead. By revealing detailed insights on the behavior of these two probes, our results are useful both in the interpretation of past work and in the planning of future experiments using them as membrane reporters. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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