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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 114, 期 8, 页码 1921-1935出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.03.014
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [MCB-1410926]
- National Institutes of Health [GM105684]
- Sao Paulo Research Foundation [2013/00473-6]
- National Council for Scientific and Technological Development [201124/2015-7]
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience [1410926] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM105684] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
Biomembranes with as few as three lipid components can form coexisting liquid-disordered (Ld) and liquid-ordered (Lo) phases. In the coexistence region of Ld and Lo phases, the lipid mixtures 1,2-distearoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DSPC)/1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC)/chol or brain sphingomyelin (bSM)/DOPC/chol form micron-scale domains that are easily visualized with light microscopy. Although large domains are not observed in the mixtures DSPC/1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC)/chol and bSM/POPC/chol, lateral heterogeneity is nevertheless detected using techniques with nanometer-scale spatial resolution. We propose a simple and accessible method to measure domain sizes below optical resolution (similar to 200 nm). We measured nanodomain size for the latter two mixtures by combining experimental Forster resonance energy transfer data with a Monte-Carlo-based analysis. We found a domain radius of 7.5-10 nm for DSPC/POPC/chol, similar to values obtained previously by neutron scattering, and similar to 5 nm for bSM/POPC/chol, slightly smaller than measurable by neutron scattering. These analyses also detect the domain-size transition that is observed by fluorescence microscopy in the four-component lipid mixture bSM/DOPC/POPC/chol. Accurate measurements of fluorescent-probe partition coefficients are especially important for the analysis; therefore, we exploit three different methods to measure the partition coefficient of fluorescent molecules between Ld and Lo phases.
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