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. 1995 Feb;68(2):525–535. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(95)80214-6

Poly(ethylene glycol)-induced and temperature-dependent phase separation in fluid binary phospholipid membranes.

J Y Lehtonen 1, P K Kinnunen 1
PMCID: PMC1281717  PMID: 7696506

Abstract

Exclusion of the strongly hygroscopic polymer, poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), from the surface of phosphatidylcholine liposomes results in an osmotic imbalance between the hydration layer of the liposome surface and the bulk polymer solution, thus causing a partial dehydration of the phospholipid polar headgroups. PEG (average molecular weight of 6000 and in concentrations ranging from 5 to 20%, w/w) was added to the outside of large unilamellar liposomes (LUVs). This leads to, in addition to the dehydration of the outer monolayer, an osmotically driven water outflow and shrinkage of liposomes. Under these conditions phase separation of the fluorescent lipid 1-palmitoyl-2[6-(pyren-1-yl)]decanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (PPDPC) embedded in various phosphatidylcholine matrices was observed, evident as an increase in the excimer-to-monomer fluorescence intensity ratio (IE/IM). Enhanced segregation of the fluorescent lipid was seen upon increasing and equal concentrations of PEG both inside and outside of the LUVs, revealing that osmotic gradient across the membrane is not required, and phase separation results from the dehydration of the lipid. Importantly, phase separation of PPDPC could be induced by PEG also in binary mixtures with 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC), 1-stearoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (SOPC), and 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC), for which temperature-induced phase segregation of the fluorescent lipid below Tm was otherwise not achieved. In the different lipid matrices the segregation of PPDPC caused by PEG was abolished above characteristic temperatures T0 well above their respective main phase transition temperatures Tm. For 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC), DMPC, SOPC, and POPC, T0 was observed at approximately 50, 32, 24, and 20 degrees C, respectively. Notably, the observed phase separation of PPDPC cannot be accounted for the 1 degree C increase in Tm for DMPC or for the increase by 0.5 degrees C for DPPC observed in the presence of 20% (w/w) PEG. At a given PEG concentration maximal increase in IE/IM (correlating to the extent of segregation of PPDPC in the different lipid matrices) decreased in the sequence 1,2-dihexadecyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DHPC) > DPPC > DMPC > SOPC > POPC, whereas no evidence for phase separation in 1,2-dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) LUV was observed (Lehtonen and Kinnunen, 1994, Biophys. J. 66: 1981-1990). Our results indicate that PEG-induced dehydration of liposomal membranes provides the driving force for the segregation of the pyrene lipid. In brief, phase separation of PPDPC from the matrix lipid could be attributed to the diminishing effective size of the phosphatidylcholine polar headgroup resulting from its partial dehydration by PEG. This in turn would allow for enhanced van der Waals interactions between the acyl chains of the matrix lipid, which then caused the exclusion of PPDPC due to the perturbing bulky pyrene moiety. Phase separation in DMPC/PPDPC liposomes was abolished by the inclusion of 25 mol % cholesterol and to a lesser extent by epicholesterol.

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