Ruggiero A, Hudson B
Department of Chemistry, University of Oregon, Eugene 97403.
Biophys J. 1989 Jun;55(6):1111-24. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(89)82908-X.
The heterogeneity of the decay of the fluorescence of transparinaric acid in single-component lipid bilayers at temperatures above their gel/liquid crystalline phase transition is shown to be due to the presence of regions of higher local density and higher acyl chain order than the predominant fluid regions. This conclusion is based on selective excitation behavior and the observation of time-resolved fluorescence anisotropies that increase at long times. The fractional amplitude of the long lifetime component of the fluorescence shows a temperature variation that conforms to conventional descriptions of critical behavior. The critical exponent extracted from this variation is 1.1, close to the value of 1.0 that describes ultrasonic data. We therefore conclude that liquid crystalline lipid bilayers exhibit critical behavior with significant density and order fluctuations. This behavior must be taken into account in the interpretation of fluorescence and other spectroscopic measurements of the properties of bilayers.
在高于其凝胶/液晶相转变温度的单组分脂质双层中,透明质酸荧光衰减的异质性被证明是由于存在比主要流体区域具有更高局部密度和更高酰基链有序度的区域。这一结论基于选择性激发行为以及对长时间增加的时间分辨荧光各向异性的观察。荧光长寿命组分的分数振幅显示出符合临界行为传统描述的温度变化。从这种变化中提取的临界指数为1.1,接近描述超声数据的1.0值。因此,我们得出结论,液晶脂质双层表现出具有显著密度和有序波动的临界行为。在解释双层性质的荧光和其他光谱测量时,必须考虑这种行为。