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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry. B2008

Structure and thermotropic phase behavior of fluorinated phospholipid bilayers: a combined attenuated total reflection FTIR spectroscopy and imaging ellipsometry study.

Steffen Schuy, Simon Faiss, Nicholas C Yoder, Venkateshwarlu Kalsani, Krishna Kumar, Andreas Janshoff, Reiner Vogel

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Steffen SchuyInstitute for Physical Chemistry, University of Mainz, 55128 Mainz, Germany.
Simon Faiss
Nicholas C Yoder
Venkateshwarlu Kalsani
Krishna Kumar
Andreas Janshoff
Reiner Vogel

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Protein Design Using Unnatural Amino AcidsR01GM065500 · NIGMS · TUFTS UNIVERSITY MEDFORD · PI KUMAR, KRISHNA · 2002 to 2010
$2.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM065500
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Abstract

Lipid bilayers consisting of lipids with terminally perfluoroalkylated chains have remarkable properties. They exhibit increased stability and phase-separated nanoscale patterns in mixtures with nonfluorinated lipids. In order to understand the bilayer properties that are responsible for this behavior, we have analyzed the structure of solid-supported bilayers composed of 1,2-dipalmitoyl- sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) and of a DPPC analogue with 6 terminal perfluorinated methylene units (F6-DPPC). Polarized attenuated total reflection Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy indicates that for F6-DPPC, the tilt of the lipid acyl chains to the bilayer normal is increased to 39 degrees as compared to 21 degrees for native DPPC, for both lipids in the gel phase. This substantial increase of the tilt angle is responsible for a decrease of the bilayer thickness from 5.4 nm for DPPC to 4.5 nm for F6-DPPC, as revealed by temperature-controlled imaging ellipsometry on microstructured lipid bilayers and solution atomic force microscopy. During the main phase transition from the gel to the fluid phase, both the relative bilayer thickness change and the relative area change are substantially smaller for F6-DPPC than for DPPC. In light of these structural and thermotropic data, we propose a model in which the higher acyl-chain tilt angle in F6-DPPC is the result of a conformational rearrangement to minimize unfavorable fluorocarbon-hydrocarbon interactions in the center of the bilayer due to chain staggering.

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Temperature1,2-DipalmitoylphosphatidylcholineFluorine CompoundsLipid BilayersMicroscopy, Atomic ForceMolecular StructureSpectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared1,2-DipalmitoylphosphatidylcholineFluorine CompoundsLipid Bilayers

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PMID18563929
PMCPMC2518959

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