Abstract
A model approach is developed to study intermediate steps and transientstructures in a course of the membrane self-assembly. The approach isbased on investigation of mixed lipid/protein-detergent systems capable ofthe temperature induced transformation from a solubilized micellar stateto closed membrane vesicles. We performed a theoretical analysis ofself-assembling molecular structures formed in binary mixtures ofdimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) and sodium cholate (NaC). Thetheoretical model is based on the Helfrich theory of curvature elasticity,which relates geometrical shapes of the structures to their free energy inthe Ginzburg-Landau approximation. The driving force for the shapetransformation is spontaneous curvature of amphiphilic aggregates which isnonlinearly dependent on the lipid/detergent composition. An analysis ofthe free energy in the regular solution approximation shows that theformation of mixed structures of different shapes (discoidal micelles,rod-like micelles, multilayer membrane structures and vesicles) ispossible in a certain range of detergent/lipid ratios. A transition fromthe flat discoidal micelles to the rod-like cylindrical micelles isinduced by curvature instabilities resulting from acyl chain melting andinsertion of detergent molecules into the lipid phase. Nonideal mixing ofthe NaC and DMPC molecules results in formation of nonideal cylindricalaggregates with elliptical cross section. Further dissolution of NaCmolecules in DMPC may be accompanied with a change of their orientation inthe lipid phase and leads to temperature-induced curvature instabilitiesin the highly curved cylindrical geometry. As a result the rod-likemicelles fuse into less curved bilayer structures which transformeventually to the unilamellar and multilamellar membrane vesicles. Thetheoretical analysis performed shows that a sequence of shapetransformations in the DMPC/NaC mixed systems is determined by thesynergism of four major factors: detergent/lipid ratio, temperature (acylchain melting), DMPC and NaC mixing, and reorientation of NaC molecules inmixed aggregates.
Keywords: Micelle-to-vesicle transition, mixed lipid-detergent systems, Membrane self-assembly, solubilization and reconstitution of membranes
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