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. 1989 Nov;56(5):877–885. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(89)82734-1

Slow motions in oriented phospholipid bilayers and effects of cholesterol or gramicidin. A 19F-NMR T1 rho study.

Z Y Peng 1, N Tjandra 1, V Simplaceanu 1, C Ho 1
PMCID: PMC1280587  PMID: 2481513

Abstract

In an extension of our earlier work (Peng, Z.-y., V. Simplaceanu, I. J. Lowe, and C. Ho. 1988. Biophys. J. 54:81-95), the rotating-frame nuclear spin-lattice relaxation (T1 rho) technique has been used to investigate the slow molecular motions (10(-4) - 10(-6) s) in lipid bilayers prepared from protonated or perdeuterated 19F-labeled phospholipids in the absence and presence of cholesterol or gramicidin as membrane-interacting molecules. Complications caused by the 19F-1H cross-polarization observed previously can be removed by the substitution of 2H for 1H in the acyl chains. Only a weak dependence of the T-1(1 rho) on the locking field strength is found for a phospholipid molecule with perdeuterated acyl chains, indicating that there are no slow motions with a single, well-defined correlation time between 5 x 10(-6) and 4 x 10(-5) s. However, the orientation dependences of the T-1(1 rho) can be well fitted by motional models with either one slow motion having an unspecified geometry or with a superposition of two specific types of slow motions. Cholesterol and gramicidin show distinct effects in altering either the geometry or the weighting of slow motions in phospholipid bilayers, as reflected by changes in the orientation dependence. These two additives also exhibit quite different label-position specificities. A qualitative understanding of the induced effects of cholesterol and gramicidin on the dynamics of phospholipid bilayers will be discussed.

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