Gupta Ritika, Mitra Saheli, Chowdhury Subhadip, Das Gangadhar, Priyadarshini Richa, Mukhopadhyay Mrinmay K, Ghosh Sajal K
Department of Physics, School of Natural Sciences, Shiv Nadar University, NH 91, Tehsil Dadri, G.B. Nagar, Uttar Pradesh 201314, India.
Surface Physics and Material Science Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, AF Block, Bidhannagar Kolkata 700064, India.
Biochim Biophys Acta Biomembr. 2021 Sep 1;1863(9):183647. doi: 10.1016/j.bbamem.2021.183647. Epub 2021 May 11.
Violacein is a naturally found pigment that is used by some gram negative bacteria to defend themselves from various gram positive bacteria. As a result, this molecule has caught attention for its potential biomedical applications and has already shown promising outcomes as an antiviral, an antibacterial, and an anti-tumor agent. Understanding the interaction of this molecule with a cellular membrane is an essential step to extend its use in the pharmaceutical paradigm. Here, the interaction of violacein with a lipid monolayer formed at the air-water interface is found to depend on electrostatic nature of lipids. In presence of violacein, the two dimensional (2D) pressure-area isotherms of lipids have exhibited changes in their phase transition pressure and in-plane elasticity. To gain insights into the out-of-plane structural organization of lipids in a membrane, X-ray reflectivity (XRR) study on a solid supported lipid monolayer on a hydrophilic substrate has been performed. It has revealed that the increase in membrane thickness is more pronounced in the zwitterionic and positively charged lipids compared to the negatively charged one. Further, the lipid molecules are observed to decrease their tilt angle made with the normal of lipid membrane along with an alteration in their in-plane ordering. This has been quantified by grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXD) experiments on the multilayer membrane formed in an environment with controlled humidity. The structural reorganization of lipid molecules in presence of violacein can be utilized to provide a detailed mechanism of the interaction of this molecule with cellular membrane.
紫菌素是一种天然存在的色素,一些革兰氏阴性细菌用它来抵御各种革兰氏阳性细菌。因此,这种分子因其潜在的生物医学应用而受到关注,并且已经作为抗病毒、抗菌和抗肿瘤剂显示出有前景的结果。了解这种分子与细胞膜的相互作用是将其在药物领域的应用加以扩展的关键一步。在此,发现紫菌素与在空气-水界面形成的脂质单层的相互作用取决于脂质的静电性质。在有紫菌素存在的情况下,脂质的二维(2D)压力-面积等温线在其相变压力和平面内弹性方面都表现出变化。为了深入了解膜中脂质的平面外结构组织,对亲水性底物上的固体支持脂质单层进行了X射线反射率(XRR)研究。结果表明,与带负电荷的脂质相比,两性离子脂质和带正电荷的脂质中膜厚度的增加更为明显。此外,观察到脂质分子与脂质膜法线的倾斜角减小,同时其平面内有序性发生改变。这已通过在湿度可控环境中形成的多层膜上进行的掠入射X射线衍射(GIXD)实验进行了量化。紫菌素存在下脂质分子的结构重组可用于提供该分子与细胞膜相互作用的详细机制。
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