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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
卷 390, 期 3, 页码 728-732出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2009.10.037
关键词
Structural transition; Pyrene fluorescence; Rod-shaped micelles; SDS; Ionic strength; Dielectric constant
资金
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (Government of India) [NWP0035]
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Structural transitions involving shape changes play an important role in cellular physiology. Such transition can be induced in charged micelles at a given temperature by increasing ionic strength of the medium. We have monitored the change in organization and dynamics associated with sphere-to-rod transition of SDS micelles utilizing pyrene fluorescence. We report here, utilizing changes in the ratio of pyrene vibronic peak intensities (I-1/I-3), the apparent dielectric constant experienced by pyrene in spherical SDS micelles (in absence of salt) to be similar to 32. Interestingly, the apparent micellar dielectric constant exhibits a reduction with increasing NaCl concentration. The dielectric constant in rod-shaped micelles of SDS (in presence of 0.5 M NaCl) turns out to be similar to 22. To the best of our knowledge, these results constitute one of the early reports on polarity estimates in rod-shaped micelles. In addition, pyrene excimer/monomer ratio shows increase in SDS micelles with increasing NaCl concentration. We interpret this increase due to an increase in average number of pyrene molecules per micelle associated with the sphere-to-rod structural transition. These results could be significant in micellar drug solubilization and delivery, and in membrane morphology changes. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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