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. 1989 Apr;55(4):677–682. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(89)82866-8

Influence of proteins on the reorganization of phospholipid bilayers into large domains.

D M Haverstick 1, M Glaser 1
PMCID: PMC1330551  PMID: 2470427

Abstract

Using large (5-10 microns) vesicles formed in the presence of phospholipids fluorescently labeled on the acyl chain and visualized using a fluorescence microscope, charge-coupled-device camera, and digital image processor, we examined the effects of membrane proteins on phospholipid domain formation. In vesicles composed of phosphatidic acid and phosphatidylcholine, incubation with cytochrome c induced the reorganization of phospholipids into large phosphatidic acid-enriched domains with the exclusion of phosphatidylcholine. Cytochrome c binding was demonstrated to be highest in the phosphatidic acid-enriched domain of the vesicle using the absorbance of the heme moiety for visualization. Both binding of cytochrome c and phospholipid reorganization were blocked by pretreatment of the vesicles with 0.1 M NaCl. The pore forming peptide gramicidin was examined for the effects of an integral protein on domain formation. Initially, gramicidin distributed randomly within the vesicle and showed no phospholipid specificity. Phosphatidic acid domain formation in the presence of 2.0 mM CaCl2 or 100 microM cytochrome c was not affected by the presence of 5 mol % gramicidin within the vesicles. In both cases, gramicidin was preferentially excluded from the phosphatidic acid-enriched domain and became associated with phosphatidylcholine-enriched areas of the vesicle. Thus, cytochrome c caused a major reorganization of both the phospholipids and the proteins in the bilayer.

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