The role of sphingomyelin in regulating phase coexistence in complex lipid model membranes: competition between ceramide and cholesterol |
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Authors: | Staneva Galya Chachaty Claude Wolf Claude Koumanov Kamen Quinn Peter J |
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Institution: | Institute of Biophysics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str., Bl.21, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria. gstaneva@obzor.bio21.bas.bg |
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Abstract: | The structure, thermotropic phase behavior, dynamic motion and order parameters of bilayer dispersions of egg phosphatidylcholine, egg sphingomyelin, egg ceramide and cholesterol have been determined. The coexistence of gel, liquid-ordered and liquid-disordered structure has been determined by peak fitting analysis of synchrotron X-ray powder patterns. Order parameters and extent of distribution of 16-doxyl-stearic acid spin probe between ordered and disordered environments has been estimated by ESR spectral simulation methods. The presence of ceramide in proportions up to 20 mol% in phosphatidylcholine is characterized by gel-fluid phase coexistence at temperatures up to 46 degrees C depending on the amount of ceramide. Cholesterol tends to destabilize the ceramide-rich domains formed in phosphatidylcholine while sphingomyelin, by formation of stable complexes with ceramide, tends to stabilize these domains. The stability of sphingomyelin-ceramide complexes is evident from the persistence of highly ordered structure probed by ESR spectroscopy and appearance of a sharp wide-angle X-ray reflection at temperatures higher than the gel-fluid transition of ceramide alone in egg phosphatidylcholine bilayers. The competition between ceramide and cholesterol for interaction with sphingomyelin is discussed in terms of control of lipid-mediated signaling pathways by sphingomyelinase and phospholipase A2. |
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