ArticleBiophysical journal2013
Effects of sphingomyelin headgroup size on interactions with ceramide.
Article in Biophysical journal, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- The Effect of Ceramide Ratio on the Membrane Curvature of Mimetic Models of Matrix Vesicles.ACS physical chemistry Au · 2025Article
- Structural diversity of photoswitchable sphingolipids for optodynamic control of lipid microdomains.Biophysical journal · 2023Article
- Sphingomyelinase-Mediated Multitimescale Clustering of Ganglioside GM1 in Heterogeneous Lipid Membranes.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2021Article
- Current Methods for Detecting Cell Membrane Transient Interactions.Frontiers in chemistry · 2020Review
- Natural Ceramides and Lysophospholipids Cosegregate in Fluid Phosphatidylcholine Bilayers.Biophysical journal · 2019Article
- Bilayer Interactions among Unsaturated Phospholipids, Sterols, and Ceramide.Biophysical journal · 2017Article
- The Influence of Hydrogen Bonding on Sphingomyelin/Colipid Interactions in Bilayer Membranes.Biophysical journal · 2016Article
- Influence of Hydroxylation, Chain Length, and Chain Unsaturation on Bilayer Properties of Ceramides.Biophysical journal · 2015Article
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Abstract
Sphingomyelins (SMs) and ceramides are known to interact favorably in bilayer membranes. Because ceramide lacks a headgroup that could shield its hydrophobic body from unfavorable interactions with water, accommodation of ceramide under the larger phosphocholine headgroup of SM could contribute to their favorable interactions. To elucidate the role of SM headgroup for SM/ceramide interactions, we explored the effects of reducing the size of the phosphocholine headgroup (removing one, two, or three methyls on the choline moiety, or the choline moiety itself). Using differential scanning calorimetry and fluorescence spectroscopy, we found that the size of the SM headgroup had no marked effect on the thermal stability of ordered domains formed by SM analog/palmitoyl ceramide (PCer) interactions. In more complex bilayers composed of a fluid glycerophospholipid, SM analog, and PCer, the thermal stability and molecular order of the laterally segregated gel domains were roughly identical despite variation in SM headgroup size. We suggest that that the association between PCer and SM analogs was stabilized by ceramide's aversion for disordered phospholipids, by interfacial hydrogen bonding between PCer and the SM analogs, and by attractive van der Waals' forces between saturated chains of PCer and SM analogs.
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