Phospholipid head-group conformations; intermolecular interactions and cholesterol effects
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Phospholipid head-group conformations; intermolecular interactions and cholesterol effects
Abstract
The predominant orientation of the phosphorylcholine polar head group in phosphatidylcholine and sphingomyelin bilayers and cholesterol perturbations of that orientation have been identified by exploiting the 31P (1H) nuclear Overhauser effect (NOE) in the 31P NMR spectra of phospholipid bilayers. In pure egg phosphatidylcholine bilayers, a NOE of 40% is observed. The magnitude of the NOE has been measured as a function of continuous-wave proton-decoupler frequency in order to identify the proton source of the NOE. In pure egg phosphatidylcholine bilayers, the maximum NOE occurs at the N-methyl proton resonance position of the choline moiety. In a modified phosphatidylcholine in which all the N-methyl protons were replaced by deuterium, the NOE arose from methylene protons next to the phosphate. In mixed systems of phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine, and phosphatidylcholine and diphosphatidylglycerol, both phospholipid resonances attained maximum NOE at the position of the N-methyl proton resonance of phosphatidylcholine. An analogous result was obtained with pure sphingomyelin. These results are explained by orienting the phosphorylcholine portion of the molecule parallel to the surface of the bilayer so that the positively charged N-methyl moiety is located close to the negatively charged phosphate on a neighboring phospholipid in an intermolecular interaction. Addition of cholesterol is shown to disrupt the intermolecular interaction in phosphatidylcholine bilayers.
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