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Lipid bilayer structure determined by the simultaneous analysis of neutron and X-ray scattering data |
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| Authors: | Kucerka Norbert Nagle John F Sachs Jonathan N Feller Scott E Pencer Jeremy Jackson Andrew Katsaras John |
| Institution: | * Canadian Neutron Beam Centre, National Research Council, Chalk River, Ontario K0J 1J0, Canada † Department of Physical Chemistry of Drugs, Faculty of Pharmacy, Comenius University, 832 32 Bratislava, Slovakia ‡ Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 § Biomedical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455 ¶ Department of Chemistry, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana 47933 ‖ Atomic Energy of Canada, Chalk River Laboratories, Chalk River, Ontario K0J 1J0, Canada ** National Institute of Standards and Technology, Center for Neutron Research, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899 †† Guelph-Waterloo Physics Institute and Biophysics Interdepartmental Group, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada ‡‡ Department of Physics, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1, Canada |
| Abstract: | Quantitative structures were obtained for the fully hydrated fluid phases of dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC) and dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) bilayers by simultaneously analyzing x-ray and neutron scattering data. The neutron data for DOPC included two solvent contrasts, 50% and 100% D2O. For DPPC, additional contrast data were obtained with deuterated analogs DPPC_d62, DPPC_d13, and DPPC_d9. For the analysis, we developed a model that is based on volume probability distributions and their spatial conservation. The model's design was guided and tested by a DOPC molecular dynamics simulation. The model consistently captures the salient features found in both electron and neutron scattering density profiles. A key result of the analysis is the molecular surface area, A. For DPPC at 50°C A = 63.0 Å2, whereas for DOPC at 30°C A = 67.4 Å2, with estimated uncertainties of 1 Å2. Although A for DPPC agrees with a recently reported value obtained solely from the analysis of x-ray scattering data, A for DOPC is almost 10% smaller. This improved method for determining lipid areas helps to reconcile long-standing differences in the values of lipid areas obtained from stand-alone x-ray and neutron scattering experiments and poses new challenges for molecular dynamics simulations. |
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