Molecular order and dynamics of phosphatidylcholine bilayer membranes in the presence of cholesterol, ergosterol and lanosterol: a comparative study using 2H-, 13C- and 31P-NMR spectroscopy
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Molecular order and dynamics of phosphatidylcholine bilayer membranes in the presence of cholesterol, ergosterol and lanosterol: a comparative study using 2H-, 13C- and 31P-NMR spectroscopy
Abstract
We report the results of a comparative study of the molecular order and dynamics of phosphatidylcholine (PC) bilayer membranes in the absence and presence of cholesterol, ergosterol and lanosterol, using deuterium (2H) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) of deuterated phospholipid molecules, in addition to solid state 13C and 31P-NMR. Using dimyristoylphosphatidylcholines (DMPCs) specifically labeled at positions 2', 3', 4', 6', 8', 10' and 12' of the sn-2 chain together with the perdeuterated 2-[2H27]DMPC derivative, the order profile for 9 of the 13 methylene groups of the sn-2 chain was established at 25 degrees C for DMPC, DMPC/cholesterol, DMPC/ergosterol and DMPC/lanosterol membranes, at a fixed sterol/phospholipid mol ratio of 30%, and in the presence of excess water. The overall ordering effects were found to be ergosterol > cholesterol >> lanosterol. Transverse relaxation (T2e) studies of these systems indicated that while for DMPC, DMPC/cholesterol and DMPC/ergosterol the relative relaxation rates were in qualitative agreement with models which assume cooperative motions of the bilayer molecules as the main relaxation mechanism, those in DMPC/lanosterol were anomalously high, suggesting alterations of lipid packing. Using dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) deuterated at the trimethylammonium group of the choline moiety, we found that the differential ordering and motional effects induced by the sterols in the acyl chains were also reflected in the headgroup, both in the gel (L beta) and liquid-crystalline phases. 13C and 1H spin dynamics studies of these systems, including cross-polarization, rotating frame longitudinal relaxation and dipolar echo relaxation rates showed that the mobility of the different regions of the phospholipid molecules in the binary lipid systems were inversely correlated with the ordering effects induced by the sterols. A novel combination of C-D bond order parameters (obtained by 2H-NMR) and 13C-1H cross polarization rates confirmed these results. The effects of the same sterols at the same molar proportion on the unsaturated lipid 1-[2H31]palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphatidylcholine (2H31-POPC) at 25 and 35 degrees C were different from those observed on DMPC and showed ordering effects which are largest for cholesterol, while ergosterol and lanosterol produced significantly smaller effects. Transverse relaxation studies indicate that while cholesterol does not perturb cooperative motions in POPC, both ergosterol and lanosterol do. Again, high-resolution solid state 13C-NMR studies support the conclusions of the 2H-NMR experiments.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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