Differential lipid packing abilities and dynamics in giant unilamellar vesicles composed of short-chain saturated glycerol-phospholipids, sphingomyelin and cholesterol. 2005

Nicoletta Kahya, and Dag Scherfeld, and Petra Schwille
Dresden University of Technology, c/o Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Pftotenhauerstrasse 108, 01307 Dresden, Germany.

The ability of membrane components to arrange themselves heterogeneously within the bilayer induces the formation of microdomains. Much work has been devoted to mimicking domain-assembly in artificial bilayers and characterizing their physico-chemical properties. Ternary lipid mixtures composed of unsaturated phospholipids, sphingomyelin and cholesterol give rise to large, round domains. Here, we replaced the unsaturated phospholipid in the ternary mixture with sphingomyelin and cholesterol by saturated glycero-phospholipids of different chain length and characterized the critical role of cholesterol in sorting these lipids by confocal imaging and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS). More cholesterol is needed to obtain phase segregation in ternary mixtures, in which the unsaturated phospholipid is replaced by a saturated one. Finally, lipid dynamics in distinct phases is very low and astonishingly similar, thereby suggesting the poor ability of cholesterol in sorting short-chain saturated glycero-phospholipids and sphingomyelin.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008055 Lipids A generic term for fats and lipoids, the alcohol-ether-soluble constituents of protoplasm, which are insoluble in water. They comprise the fats, fatty oils, essential oils, waxes, phospholipids, glycolipids, sulfolipids, aminolipids, chromolipids (lipochromes), and fatty acids. (Grant & Hackh's Chemical Dictionary, 5th ed) Lipid
D008081 Liposomes Artificial, single or multilaminar vesicles (made from lecithins or other lipids) that are used for the delivery of a variety of biological molecules or molecular complexes to cells, for example, drug delivery and gene transfer. They are also used to study membranes and membrane proteins. Niosomes,Transferosomes,Ultradeformable Liposomes,Liposomes, Ultra-deformable,Liposome,Liposome, Ultra-deformable,Liposome, Ultradeformable,Liposomes, Ultra deformable,Liposomes, Ultradeformable,Niosome,Transferosome,Ultra-deformable Liposome,Ultra-deformable Liposomes,Ultradeformable Liposome
D008856 Microscopy, Fluorescence Microscopy of specimens stained with fluorescent dye (usually fluorescein isothiocyanate) or of naturally fluorescent materials, which emit light when exposed to ultraviolet or blue light. Immunofluorescence microscopy utilizes antibodies that are labeled with fluorescent dye. Fluorescence Microscopy,Immunofluorescence Microscopy,Microscopy, Immunofluorescence,Fluorescence Microscopies,Immunofluorescence Microscopies,Microscopies, Fluorescence,Microscopies, Immunofluorescence
D002784 Cholesterol The principal sterol of all higher animals, distributed in body tissues, especially the brain and spinal cord, and in animal fats and oils. Epicholesterol
D013109 Sphingomyelins A class of sphingolipids found largely in the brain and other nervous tissue. They contain phosphocholine or phosphoethanolamine as their polar head group so therefore are the only sphingolipids classified as PHOSPHOLIPIDS. Sphingomyelin
D020404 Glycerophospholipids Derivatives of phosphatidic acid in which the hydrophobic regions are composed of two fatty acids and a polar alcohol is joined to the C-3 position of glycerol through a phosphodiester bond. They are named according to their polar head groups, such as phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine. Glycerophospholipid,Phosphoglyceride,Phosphoglycerides
D021962 Membrane Microdomains Detergent-insoluble CELL MEMBRANE components. They are enriched in SPHINGOLIPIDS and CHOLESTEROL and clustered with glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored proteins. Lipid Rafts, Cell Membrane,Sphingolipid Microdomains,Sphingolipid-Cholesterol Rafts,Membrane Microdomain,Microdomain, Membrane,Microdomain, Sphingolipid,Microdomains, Membrane,Microdomains, Sphingolipid,Sphingolipid Cholesterol Rafts,Sphingolipid Microdomain,Sphingolipid-Cholesterol Raft

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