ArticleBiophysical journal2026
Quantifying interleaflet coupling of phase behavior and observing anti-registered phases in asymmetric lipid bilayers.
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Biological membranes are compositionally asymmetric, with distinct lipid mixtures in each leaflet, yet how this asymmetry influences lateral membrane organization remains poorly understood. Here, we use calcium-induced hemifusion to generate asymmetric giant unilamellar vesicles (aGUVs) and investigate how lipid composition modulates interleaflet coupling of liquid-liquid phase separation. Symmetric GUVs composed of cholesterol, the high-melting lipid DPPC, and a low-melting phosphatidylcholine (either 14:1-PC or 16:1-PC) were prepared at compositions exhibiting coexisting liquid-ordered (Lo) and liquid-disordered (Ld) phases. Hemifusion with a uniformly mixed supported lipid bilayer selectively altered the outer leaflet composition, producing aGUVs with controlled but variable asymmetry. Fluorescence measurements of outer leaflet exchange revealed substantial vesicle-to-vesicle variability, resulting in overlapping populations of phase-separated and uniformly mixed aGUVs. To account for this variability, we developed a statistical framework that jointly models the distribution of exchange fractions and the location of a phase boundary in asymmetric composition space, allowing all observed vesicles to contribute to the analysis. We find that aGUVs containing 14:1-PC require significantly greater outer leaflet exchange to abolish phase separation than those containing 16:1-PC. Only in the 14:1-PC system do we observe vesicles exhibiting coexistence of distinct anti-registered phases, a theoretically predicted but rarely observed regime consistent with large hydrophobic mismatch. By expressing symmetric and asymmetric miscibility boundaries in a common compositional framework, we introduce a phenomenological parameter, Δ
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