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. 1996 Apr;70(4):1753–1760. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(96)79738-2

Evidence for the formation of microdomains in liquid crystalline large unilamellar vesicles caused by hydrophobic mismatch of the constituent phospholipids.

J Y Lehtonen 1, J M Holopainen 1, P K Kinnunen 1
PMCID: PMC1225144  PMID: 8785334

Abstract

The excimer-to-monomer fluorescence emission intensity ratio (IE/IM) of the fluorescent probe 1-palmitoyl-2-[(pyren-1-yl)]decanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (PPDPC, 1 mol%) was measured at 30 degrees C as a function of the thickness of fluid liposomal membranes composed of phosphatidylcholines (PCs) with homologous monounsaturated acyl chains of varying lengths N (= number of carbon atoms). Upon decreasing N from di-24:1 PC to di-14:1 PC, the rate of excimer formation was sigmoidally augmented from 0.02 to 0.06. This increase in IE/IM can arise either from enhanced lateral mobility or from the lateral enrichment of PPDPC into domains, or both. Direct evidence for partial lateral segregation of PPDPC being involved is provided by experiments where 1.6 mol% of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamino-N- (5-fluoresceinthiocarbamoyl) (DPPF) was included together with PPDPC into the bilayers. Notably, because of spectral overlap DPPF can function as a resonance energy transfer acceptor for pyrene excimer. Fluorescence intensity ratio (F/Fo) measured at 480 nm for PPDPC/DPPF (yielding F) and PPDPC (yielding Fo) containing membranes as a function of N reveals a sharp maximum for di-20:1 PC, i.e., the quenching of pyrene excimer fluorescence by DPPF is least efficient in this lipid and is enhanced upon either decrease or increase in N. This is compatible with colocalization of DPPF in PPDPC enriched domains when N not equal to 20, whereas in di-20:1 PC these probes appear to be effectively dispersed. The driving force for the enrichment of PPDPC in thin (N < 20) and thick (N > 20) PC matrices is likely to be hydrophobic mismatch of the effective ¿lengths of the matrix phospholipids and the fluorescent probes. We also measured fluorescence polarization (P) for 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH) as well as the IE/IM for the intramolecular excimer forming probe 1,2-bis[(pyren-1-yl)]decanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (bisPDPC) as a function of N. In brief, neither the fluorescence polarization data and nor the measurements of intramolecular chain dynamics using bisPDPC concur with enhanced lateral diffusion as the sole cause for the increase in the IE/IM for PPDPC in thin membranes. Our findings suggest hydrophobic mismatch as the cause of microdomain formation of lipids in fluid, liquid crystalline bilayers, while simultaneously allowing for a high rates of lateral diffusion. Such hydrophobic mismatch-induced compositional fluctuations would also offer one plausible explanation for the chain length diversity observed for biological membranes.

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