School of Chemistry and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
School of Food Science and Nutrition, School of Chemistry and Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
Small. 2023 Jun;19(22):e2206267. doi: 10.1002/smll.202206267. Epub 2023 Mar 3.
Hybrid vesicles consisting of phospholipids and block-copolymers are increasingly finding applications in science and technology. Herein, small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) are used to obtain detailed structural information about hybrid vesicles with different ratios of 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) and poly(1,2-butadiene-block-ethylene oxide) (PBd -PEO , M = 1800 g mol ). Using single particle analysis (SPA) the authors are able to further interpret the information gained from SAXS and cryo-ET experiments, showing that increasing PBd -PEO mole fraction increases the membrane thickness from 52 Å for a pure lipid system to 97 Å for pure PBd -PEO vesicles. Two vesicle populations with different membrane thicknesses in hybrid vesicle samples are found. As these lipids and polymers are reported to homogeneously mix, bistability is inferred between weak and strong interdigitation regimes of PBd -PEO within the hybrid membranes. It is hypothesized that membranes of intermediate structure are not energetically favorable. Therefore, each vesicle exists in one of these two membrane structures, which are assumed to have comparable free energies. The authors conclude that, by combining biophysical methods, accurate determination of the influence of composition on the structural properties of hybrid membranes is achieved, revealing that two distinct membranes structures can coexist in homogeneously mixed lipid-polymer hybrid vesicles.
由磷脂和嵌段共聚物组成的混合囊泡在科学和技术中越来越多地得到应用。本文使用小角 X 射线散射(SAXS)和冷冻电子断层扫描(cryo-ET)来获得不同比例 1-棕榈酰基-2-油酰基-sn-甘油-3-磷酸胆碱(POPC)和聚(1,2-丁二烯-嵌段-环氧乙烷)(PBd-PEO,M = 1800 g mol)的混合囊泡的详细结构信息。通过单颗粒分析(SPA),作者能够进一步解释从 SAXS 和 cryo-ET 实验中获得的信息,表明随着 PBd-PEO 摩尔分数的增加,膜厚度从纯脂质体系的 52 Å增加到纯 PBd-PEO 囊泡的 97 Å。在混合囊泡样品中发现了两种具有不同膜厚度的囊泡群体。由于这些脂质和聚合物被报道均匀混合,因此推断在混合膜中 PBd-PEO 的弱和强交错区域之间存在双稳性。假设中间结构的膜在能量上是不利的。因此,每个囊泡存在于这两种膜结构中的一种中,这两种膜结构被认为具有可比的自由能。作者得出结论,通过结合生物物理方法,可以准确确定组成对混合膜结构性质的影响,揭示出均匀混合的脂质-聚合物混合囊泡中可以共存两种不同的膜结构。
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