Abstract
From the study of the kinetics of the fluorescence self-quenching of pyrene in multilamellar vesicles of 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) in the fluid phase we obtain the molecular diffusion parameters, diffusion coefficients, and activation energies for lateral diffusion for three probes: 1-palmitoyl-2-(1-pyrenedecanoyl)-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (py(10)-PC), pyrene, and 1-pyrenebutanoic acid (py-but). The experiments are done in a range of temperatures for which the reversibility of excimer formation is negligible and the probe/phospholipid ratios used are low, avoiding non-ideal mixing of the probe. The time-resolved fluorescence decays are, in all cases, accurately and consistently described by the two-dimensional (2D) formalism for bimolecular diffusion-controlled reactions. From the parameters obtained in this way we conclude that the primary step of the diffusion of the pyrene-labeled phospholipid involves the simultaneous jump of phospholipid and fluorophore moieties, and also that although in the case of py(10)-PC the pyrene from molecules pertaining to different layers may interact during the lifetime of the exited state, this is not the case for free pyrene.
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