1. Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Science, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606 Japan;2. The Research Institute for Food Science, Kyoto University, Uji 611 Japan
Abstract:
Interaction of CDP-diglyceride with B membrane was studied by ESR spectroscopy. The results showed that the micelles of CDP-diglyceride molecules associate with membrane surface in the presence of Mg2+, whereas, when Mg2+ was omitted from the system, CDP-diglyceride molecules diffuse rapidly into membrane bilayer. The latter condition was shown to be more preferable for phosphatidylglycerol biosynthesis.