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. 1990 Dec;58(6):1527–1537. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(90)82497-8

Effects of lateral diffusion on the fluorescence anisotropy in hexagonal lipid phases. II. An experimental study.

S Y Chen 1, K H Cheng 1, B W Van der Meer 1, J M Beechem 1
PMCID: PMC1281104  PMID: 2275967

Abstract

The polymorphic phase behavior of unsaturated phosphatidylethanolamine (PE)/diacylglycerol (DG) binary lipid mixtures was investigated by the use of time-resolved fluorescence anisotropy. Using a fluorescent lipid, 1-palmitoyl-2-[[2-[4-(6-phenyl-trans-1,3,5-hexatrienyl)phenylethyl] carbonyl]3-sn-phosphatidyl-choline (DPH-PC), the orientational order and rotational dynamics of the above lipid mixtures in the liquid crystalline lamellar (L alpha) and inverted hexagonal (HII) phases were studied. By employing a one-exponential model (Cheng, K.H. 1989: Biophys. J. 55:1025-1031) to fit the anisotropy decay data, abrupt decreases in the normalized initial anisotropy decay slope and the residual anisotropy of DPH-PC were observed at approximately 6-8% DG, signifying a L alpha/HII phase transition. Using our new theoretical WOBHOP and P2P4HOP models as described in a preceding paper (Van Der Meer, B.W., K.H. Cheng, and S.Y. Chen. 1990. Biophys. J. 58:000-000), two or more rotational correlation times were required to describe the anisotropy decay behavior of DPH-PC in the HII phase. These rotation correlation times were further related to the second and fourth rank order parameters, and the wobbling and hopping diffusion constants of the fluorescent probe in the highly curved lipid cylindrical tubes of the HII phase. The hopping diffusion constant (DH) equals the lateral diffusion constant (DL) divided by R2 (R = radius of the lipid cylindrical tubes). The value of DL was estimated by measuring the excimer formation rate of 1-palmitoyl-2-[10-(1-pyrenl)decanoyl] phosphatidyl choline (py-PC) in the same PE/DG mixtures. Upon comparing the values of DH and DL, the value of R was determined to be approximately 10-15 A, and agreed with that derived from x-ray diffraction (Tate, M.W., and S.M. Gruner, 1989, Biochemistry. 28:4245-4253; Rand, R.P., N.L. Fuller, S.M. Gruner, and V.A. Parsegian. 1990. Biochemistry. 29:76-87).

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