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. 1979 Sep;27(3):325–337. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(79)85221-2

Phase behavior of ganglioside-lecithin mixtures. Relation to dispersion of gangliosides in membranes.

M R Bunow, B Bunow
PMCID: PMC1328592  PMID: 263689

Abstract

Ganglioside GM1 and mixed brain gangliosides were mixed with 1-stearoyl-2-oleoyl lecithin (SOPC) and examined by differential scanning calorimetry as a function of ganglioside content and temperature. Low mole fractions of ganglioside GM1 and of mixed brain gangliosides are shown to be miscible with SOPC in the gel phase up to X = 0.3, with the possible exception of a small region of immiscibility for the mixed brain gangliosides system centered around X = 0.05. Above X = 0.3, the low-temperature phases demix into a (gel) phase of composition X = 0.3 and a (micellar) phase of composition X = 1.0. Above the endothermic phase transition temperature, no phase boundaries are discerned. It is pointed out that phase structures need to be determined in each domain delineated in the phase diagrams, and that cylindrical phases may exist at higher temperatures and intermediate compositions. The effects of addition of wheat germ agglutinin, which binds to ganglioside GM1, on a ganglioside GM1-SOPC mixture (X = 0.5), are described and interpreted in terms of partial demixing of ganglioside and lecithin. Behavior of the ganglioside-SOPC system is discussed with respect to the kinetics of cholera toxin action in lymphocytes, as well as to other physiological roles of gangliosides in membranes.

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