The affinity of cholesterol for phosphatidylcholine and sphingomyelin |
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Authors: | Yvonne Lange,Josephine S. D Alessandro,Donald M. Small |
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Affiliation: | Biophysics Division, Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118 U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Erythrocyte ghosts were incubated with sonicated vesicles and the uptake of cholesterol by vesicles allowed to proceed to equilibrium. The experiments were carried out for a series of phospholipids at different temperatures. The equilibrium partition of cholesterol between ghosts and single shelled vesicles provided a measure of the relative affinities of cholesterol for the different phospholipids studied. It was found that the affinity of cholesterol for dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine was the same as that for sphingomyelin both at temperatures above and below the gel to liquid crystalline transition temperature of these phospholipids. |
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Keywords: | Cholesterol Sphingomyelin Phosphatidylcholine Phase transition |
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