The effects of bilirubin on the thermal properties of phosphatidylcholine bilayers.
AUTOR(ES)
Ali, S
RESUMO
The thermotropic properties of multilamellar vesicles of dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC), dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC), and distearoylphosphatidylcholine (DSPC), as a function of the concentration of bilirubin in the range of 0.1 to 1 mol%, were measured. The exact effects of bilirubin depended on the chain length of the polymethylene chains. But the general effects of bilirubin were the same in all systems. At the lowest concentrations tested (0.1 mol bilirubin/100 mol phospholipid (0.1 mol%)), bilirubin broadened and shifted to higher temperatures the main phase transitions of all bilayers. For DPPC and DSPC, but not DMPC, this concentration of bilirubin was associated with a new transition at 25 degrees C (DPPC) or 34 degrees C (DSPC). Bilirubin at 0.2 mol% was required for the detection of a similar transition (at 13.7 degrees C) in DMPC. Higher concentrations of bilirubin (> 0.2 mol%) suppressed completely the main phase transitions in all bilayers but increased the enthalpy of the new transition. Maximal values of delta H for these transitions were reached at 0.5, 0.25, and 0.2 mol% bilirubin in DMPC, DPPC, and DSPC, respectively. Values of delta H and delta S for these transitions were far larger than for the corresponding gel-to-liquid crystal transitions in pure lipid bilayers but were equal to those expected for a transition between crystalline and liquid crystalline phases.
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