2014
Stability of Bicelles: A Simulation Study
VÁCHA, Robert a D. FRENKELZákladní údaje
Originální název
Stability of Bicelles: A Simulation Study
Autoři
VÁCHA, Robert (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí) a D. FRENKEL (826 Velká Británie a Severní Irsko)
Vydání
Langmuir, WASHINGTON, AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 1155 16TH ST, NW, WASHINGTON, DC 20036 USA, 2014, 0743-7463
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Článek v odborném periodiku
Obor
10403 Physical chemistry
Stát vydavatele
Spojené státy
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Odkazy
Impakt faktor
Impact factor: 4.457
Kód RIV
RIV/00216224:14740/14:00077734
Organizační jednotka
Středoevropský technologický institut
UT WoS
000334991400005
Klíčová slova anglicky
SOLID-STATE NMR; MODEL MEMBRANE SYSTEM; CAPILLARY-ELECTROPHORESIS; ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS; PHOSPHOLIPID-BILAYERS; UNILAMELLAR VESICLES; PHOSPHORUS NMR; LIPID MIXTURES; TEMPERATURE; PROTEIN
Štítky
Příznaky
Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 11. 3. 2015 09:24, Martina Prášilová
Anotace
V originále
Aqueous mixtures of long-tailed lipids (e.g., dimyristoyl-phosphatidylcholine - DMPC) and detergents can sometimes form membrane disks called bicelles. Bicelles have found applications as an embedding medium for membrane proteins in the context of NMR studies and protein crystallization. However, the parameters that determine the thermodynamic stability of bicelles are not well understood. Here we report a coarse-grained simulation study of the relationship between lipid-aggregate morphology and the composition and temperature of the surfactant mixture. In agreement with experiments, we find that bicellar mixtures are destabilized at higher temperatures and detergents are present at membrane edges as well as in flat membranes with a strong preference for the edges. In addition, our results suggest that the free-energy difference between bicelles and the perforated lamellar phase is typically very small for molecules without intrinsic curvature and charge. Cone shaped surfactant molecules tend to favor the formation of bicelles; however, none of the systems that we have studied provide unambiguous evidence for the existence of thermodynamically stable bicelles in mixtures of uncharged lipids with long and short tails. We speculate that small changes in the properties of the system (charge, dopants) may make bicelles thermodynamically stable.
Návaznosti
ED1.1.00/02.0068, projekt VaV |
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286154, interní kód MU |
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