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Measuring chemical activity of cholesterol
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Space-filling model of b-cyclodextrin
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Cyclodextrin binds lipophilic drugs, including cholesterol
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Regular Solution Theory is a parameter that accounts for interactions between components (i.e., it accounts for non-ideality), μ c, μ l are standard chemical potentials, and x c, x l are the mole fractions of cholesterol and the phospholipid.
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DOPCPOPC SM DPPC Cholesterol Concentration, c Cholesterol Activity, a Θ, kTS, % DOPC1.1768 POPC-2.9364 SM-6.2785 DPPC-1.5679 Θ: Interaction Parameter S:Maximum Cholesterol Solubility
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Problems Develop theories that predict strength of pair-wise interactions from experimental activity-cholesterol relationships. Generalize mean field theories, such as RST, to account for limited solubilities.
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Fluorescence microscopy of planar bilayer membranes Objective Solvent- containing Torus
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Cholesterol/SM rafts form below the T m of the SM DOPC/DOPE (2:1), 15 mol % cholesterol and egg-SM (mostly 16:0,T m = 41 °C) Probe: 5 mol % rho-DOPE Scale bar: 50 μm for A and B; 4 μm for C
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Solid-gel domains are noncircular A.25 mol % DPPS (T m = 55 °C) and 25 mol % cholesterol B. 25 mol % DMPE (T m = 50 °C) and 25 mol % cholesterol Scale bar: 4 μm
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Rafts are fluid
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Rafts are deformable A. Pipette pulled 3-5 μm/s B. Pipette withdrawn, 5 frames after A C. Raft is circular, 9 frames after B Scale bar: 50 μm
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Lipids are more ordered in rafts than in a surrounding membrane raft
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Rafts dissolve at temperatures above T m of the SM Times after raising temperature: A. 1 min, B. 5 min, C. 7 min, D. 9 min, E. 23 min Membrane moved at D to show large dark domain (arrow). Large domains tended to accumulate at the Gibbs-Plateau border
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Question set # 1 Why are rafts liquid-ordered rather than solid-ordered even though the bilayer is at a temperature below the Tm of the SM? Is the dominant effect the intercalation of cholesterol between the acyl chains that prevents the lipid tilting of the gel phase?
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Raft formation requires saturated acyl chains and depends on headgroup Acyl chainDomains with cholesterol? 16:0 egg-SM Yes 18:0 SM or DSPCYes 18:1 SM or DOPCNo 18:0 DSPSNo 14:0 DMPENo 16:0 and 18:0 GM 1 No
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Question Set # 2 Why does either SM or PC phase separate with cholesterol? What are the relative roles of headgroup interactions and hydrogen bonding in raft formation? Are interactions between chains the primary determinant? Does SM or PC form stoichiometric complexes with cholesterol?
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Rafts extend through both monolayers of a bilayer membrane Torus
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Question set # 3 Why do SM/Cholesterol domains couple between the two monolayers? Is the cause interdigitation of the saturated acyl chains of SM of one monolayer with that of the other? Or do the side chains of cholesterol in the two monolayers interact? Are there other possibilities for coupling in a pure lipid bilayer?
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Coupling of rafts in outer leaflets to l o domains of inner leaflets
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Question set # 4 Why are rafts small in biological cell membranes but large in lipid bilayer membranes? Do membrane proteins serve as nucleating centers for raft formation, rather than passively partition into rafts?
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Surface vs. cross-section observation of rafts cross-section rafts in 3D NBD-DPPE Rho-DOPE GUV raft Composition: SM, Cholesterol, DOPC
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Large raft formation as a function of cholesterol content 10% Cholesterol40% Cholesterol20% Cholesterol 20% SM 40% DOPC60% DOPC70% DOPC
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Increasing cholesterol in a SM/DOPC GUV 0 sec 200 sec160 sec120 sec 80 sec 40 sec Add methyl beta-cyclodextrin/cholesterol
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Increasing Cholesterol
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0.1% NBD-DPPE 1% Rho-DOPE Small rafts are present at high cholesterol content in the absence of tension
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Question Set # 5 Why can’t large rafts exist at high Cholesterol content? Why don’t small rafts merge at high cholesterol content?
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0 sec 100 sec80 sec60 sec 40 sec 20 sec Tension promotes large rafts 20% Sphingomyelin, 40% cholesterol
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Large rafts appear after liposome swelling
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Swelling induces large rafts in cells at 37 o C unswollen swollen Cholera Toxin B – marker for GM1 Ouabain Cholera Toxin B Ouabain – marker for Na/K-ATPase
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in entropy B Raft merger is a competition between a reduction in boundary energy and a decrease in entropy
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Rafts are thicker than the surround raft
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Lateral tension increases line tension of rafts
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Question # 6 Does mechanical tension increase line tension of domains that have the same thickness as the surround?
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