通过自组装两亲嵌段共聚物模拟脂质双层膜中的胆固醇效应。
Mimicking effects of cholesterol in lipid bilayer membranes by self-assembled amphiphilic block copolymers.
机构信息
School of Mathematics and Statistics, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China.
Zu Chongzhi Center for Mathematics and Computational Sciences (CMCS), Global Health Research Center (GHRC), Duke Kunshan University, 8 Duke Ave, Kunshan, Jiangsu, China.
出版信息
Soft Matter. 2023 Jul 26;19(29):5487-5501. doi: 10.1039/d3sm00804e.
The effect of cholesterol on biological membranes is important in biochemistry. In this study, a polymer system is used to simulate the consequences of varying cholesterol content in membranes. The system consists of an AB-diblock copolymer, a hydrophilic homopolymer hA, and a hydrophobic rigid homopolymer C, corresponding to phospholipid, water, and cholesterol, respectively. The effect of the C-polymer content on the membrane is studied within the framework of a self-consistent field model. The results show that the liquid-crystal behavior of B and C has a great influence on the chemical potential of cholesterol in bilayer membranes. The effects of the interaction strength between components, characterized by the Flory-Huggins parameters and the Maier-Saupe parameter, were studied. Some consequences of adding a coil headgroup to the C-rod are presented. Results of our model are compared to experimental findings for cholesterol-containing lipid bilayer membranes.
胆固醇对生物膜的影响在生物化学中很重要。在这项研究中,使用聚合物体系来模拟膜中胆固醇含量变化的后果。该体系由 AB 两亲嵌段共聚物、亲水性均聚物 hA 和疏水性刚性均聚物 C 组成,分别对应于磷脂、水和胆固醇。在自洽场模型的框架内研究了 C-聚合物含量对膜的影响。结果表明,B 和 C 的液晶行为对双层膜中胆固醇的化学势有很大影响。研究了组分之间相互作用强度的影响,用 Flory-Huggins 参数和 Maier-Saupe 参数来表征。还介绍了在 C-棒中添加一个线圈头基的一些后果。我们模型的结果与含有胆固醇的脂质双层膜的实验结果进行了比较。