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. 1994 Jun;66(6):1981–1990. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(94)80991-9

Changes in the lipid dynamics of liposomal membranes induced by poly(ethylene glycol): free volume alterations revealed by inter- and intramolecular excimer-forming phospholipid analogs.

J Y Lehtonen 1, P K Kinnunen 1
PMCID: PMC1275923  PMID: 8075332

Abstract

Influence of osmotic shrinkage, swelling, and dehydration on large unilamellar liposomes (LUVs) of 1,2-dioleoylsn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) was investigated using the fluorescent lipid probes 1-palmitoyl-2-[10-(pyren-1-yl)]-decanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholi ne (PPDPC) and 1,2-bis[10-(pyren-1-yl)]decanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (bisPDPC). Increasing concentrations of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG, average molecular weight of 6000) producing osmotic gradients delta omega up to 250 mOsm/kg were first added to the outside of LUV labeled with 0.1 mol% of either of the above fluorescent phospholipids. The resulting osmotic shrinkage was accompanied by a progressive reduction in the lateral diffusion of the membrane-incorporated PPDPC, evident as a decrease in the rate of its intermolecular excimer formation. In contrast, under the same conditions the rate of intramolecular excimer formation by bisPDPC increased. Notably, signals opposite to those described above were observed for both of the fluorescent probes upon osmotic swelling of DOPC liposomes with encapsulated PEG. The lateral diffusion of PPDPC became progressively reduced upon membrane dehydration due to increasing concentrations of symmetrically distributed PEG (with equal polymer concentrations inside and outside of the liposomes) when neither shrinkage nor swelling occurs while enhanced excimer formation by bisPDPC was evident. The later results were interpreted in terms of osmotically induced changes in the hydration of lipids. In brief, the removal of water from the phospholipid hydration shell diminishes the effective size of the polar headgroup, which subsequently allows for an enhanced lateral packing of the phospholipid acyl chains. Our findings are readily compatible with membrane free volume Vf changes due to osmotic forces under three different kinds of stress (shrinkage, swelling, and dehydration) applied on the lipid bilayers.

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