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Critical micellar concentration determination of pure phospholipids and lipid-raft and their mixtures with cholesterol.

Sofia Serravalle, Martina Pisano, Michele F M Sciacca, Nancy Salamone, Luciano Sicali, Giuseppe Mazzara, Luca Costa, Carmelo La Rosa

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Article in Proteins, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Sofia SerravalleDepartment of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Martina PisanoDepartment of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Michele F M SciaccaIstituto di Cristallografia, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Catania, Italy.
Nancy SalamoneDepartment of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Luciano SicaliDepartment of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Giuseppe MazzaraDepartment of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.
Luca CostaCentre de Biologie Structurale, University of Montpellier, CNRS, INSERM, Montpellier, France.
Carmelo La RosaDepartment of Chemical Sciences, University of Catania, Catania, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-7123-5347
University of Catania · ITCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRConsorzio Roma Ricerche · IT

Funding

French National Research Agency ANR-10-INBS-04-01Università di Catania
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Phospholipids in biological membranes establish a chemical equilibrium between free phospholipids in the aqueous phase (CMC) and self-assembled phospholipids in vesicles, keeping the CMC constant. The CMC is different for each phospholipid, depends on the amount of cholesterol, and, according to the lipid-chaperone hypothesis, controls the interaction between free phospholipids and amyloidogenic proteins (such as amylin, amyloid-β, and α-synuclein, all of which are, respectively, associated with a different proteinopathy), which governs the formation of a toxic complex between free lipids and proteins that leads to membrane destruction. Here, we provide quantitative measurements of CMCs and bilayer stability of pure phospholipids, lipid rafts, and their mixture with cholesterol by fluorescence methods (using pyrene as a probe) and light scattering techniques (resonance Rayleigh scattering and fixed-angle light scattering) performed on LUVs, as well as AFM to measure LUV dimensions. Also, we test the lipid-chaperone hypothesis on human IAPP interacting with different mixture of POPC cholesterol. Stated the importance of CMC in membrane stability and protein aggregation processes, these results could be a starting point for the development of a quantitative kinetic model for the lipid chaperone hypothesis.

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CholesterolIslet Amyloid PolypeptideLipid BilayersMembrane MicrodomainsMicellesPhosphatidylcholinesPhospholipidsHumansMicroscopy, Atomic Force1-palmitoyl-2-oleoylphosphatidylcholineCholesterolIslet Amyloid PolypeptideLipid BilayersMicellesPhosphatidylcholinesPhospholipidscholesterolCMCfixed‐angle light scatteringfluorescencelipid chaperone hypothesislipid‐raftmodel membraneresonance Rayleigh scattering

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PMID38234101
PMCPMC12260274
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