Konyakhina Tatyana M, Wu Jing, Mastroianni James D, Heberle Frederick A, Feigenson Gerald W
Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
Biochim Biophys Acta. 2013 Sep;1828(9):2204-14. doi: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2013.05.020. Epub 2013 Jun 7.
We report the first 4-component phase diagram for the lipid bilayer mixture, DSPC/DOPC/POPC/chol (distearoylphosphatidylcholine/dioleoylphosphatidylcholine/1-palmitoyl, 2-oleoylphosphatidylcholine/cholesterol). This phase diagram, which has macroscopic Ld+Lo phase domains, clearly shows that all phase boundaries determined for the 3-component mixture containing DOPC transition smoothly into the boundaries for the 3-component mixture containing POPC, which has nanoscopic phase domains of Ld+Lo. Our studies start from two published ternary phase diagrams, and show how these can be combined into a quaternary phase diagram by study of a few hundred samples of intermediate compositions.
我们报告了脂质双层混合物DSPC/DOPC/POPC/chol(二硬脂酰磷脂酰胆碱/二油酰磷脂酰胆碱/1-棕榈酰-2-油酰磷脂酰胆碱/胆固醇)的首个四组分相图。该相图具有宏观的Ld+Lo相域,清楚地表明,针对含有DOPC的三组分混合物确定的所有相界都能平滑地过渡到含有POPC的三组分混合物的相界,后者具有纳米级的Ld+Lo相域。我们的研究从两个已发表的三元相图出发,展示了如何通过研究几百个中间组成的样品将它们合并成一个四元相图。