Phase behavior of the major lipids of Tetrahymena ciliary membranes |
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Authors: | KA Ferguson SW Hui TP Stewart PL Yeagle |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Biochemistry, SUNY/Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14214 U.S.A.;2. Department of Biophysics, Roswell Park Memorial Institute, Buffalo, NY 14263 U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | The major lipids of Tetrahymena membranes have been purified by thin-layer and high pressure liquid chromatography and the phosphatidylethanolamine and aminoethylphosphonate lipids were examined in detail. 31P-NMR, X-ray diffraction and freeze-fracture electron microscopy were employed to describe the phase behavior of these lipids. The phosphatidylethanolamine was found to form a hexagonal phase above 10°C. The aminoethylphosphonate formed a lamellar phase up to 20°C, but converted to a hexagonal phase structure at 40°C. Small amounts of phosphatidylcholine stabilized the lamellar phase for the aminoethylphosphonate. 31P-NMR spectra of the intact ciliary membranes were consistent with a phospholipid bilayer at 30°C, suggesting that phosphatidylcholine in the membrane stabilized the lamellar form, even though most of the lipid of that membrane prefers a hexagonal phase in pure form at 30°C. 31P-NMR spectra also showed a distinctive difference in the chemical shift tensor of the aminoethylphosphonolipid, when compared to that of phosphatidylethanolamine, due to the difference in chemical structure of the polar headgroups of the two lipids. |
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Keywords: | Membrane lipid Phosphatidylethanolamine Aminoethylphosphonolipid Phase behavior NMR PC phosphatidylcholine PE phosphatidylethanolamine PnE aminoethylphosphonolipid |
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