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Monolayer properties of 1,3-diamidophospholipids
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Fedotenko, lllya A.
Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland
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Stefaniu, Cristina
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Research Campus, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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Brezesinski, Gerald
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Research Campus, Potsdam-Golm, Germany
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Zumbuehl, Andreas
Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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- Langmuir. - 2013, vol. 29, no. 30, p. 9428–9435
English
While nature provides an endless variety of phospholipids presenting hydrolyzable ester linkages for the 1,2-positioned hydrocarbon tails, we designed and synthesized 1,3-diamidophospholipids which contain stable fatty acid amides. These new phospholipids form faceted unilamellar vesicles with mechanosensitive properties. Aiming to understand the mechanism responsible for this behavior at a molecular level, we investigated the 1,3-diamidophospholipid family in monolayers, a simplified model membrane system. Langmuir isotherms combined with in situ grazing incidence X-ray diffraction (GIXD), specular X-ray reflectivity (XR), and infrared reflection–absorption spectroscopy (IRRAS) allowed the characterization of the monolayers from a structural and thermodynamical point of view. The existence of strong headgroup interactions due to the formation of a hydrogen-bonding network was clearly revealed by IRRAS and by the high rigidity of the monolayers. GIXD showed that only the longer chain compounds of the series (Pad-PC-Pad (1,3-dipalmitamidopropan-2-phosphocholine) and Sad-PC-Sad (1,3-distearamidopropan-2-phosphocholine) were able to form ordered monolayers. The chains are strongly tilted in a rigid lattice formed due to these hydrogen-bonding interactions between the headgroups. The thermodynamical analysis leads to a critical temperature of the monolayer which is clearly different from the main phase transition temperature in bulk, indicating that there must be a different structural arrangement of the 1,3-diamidophospholipids in monolayers and in bilayers.
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Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
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- Département de Chimie
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Chemistry
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https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/303235
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