title: Orientational order and rotational diffusion of the head group in the bilayer membrane. A nuclear magnetic resonance study.
abstract: An order parameter-based interpretation is applied to the temperature dependence of the deuterium magnetic resonance splittings and the anisotropic contribution to the chemical shift for 31P from the head groups of 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC). It is shown that the rotational motion of the molecule about its long axis is not a free rotational motion as normally assumed, but instead a biased one. Changes in the degree of biasing appear to be primarily responsible for the variation of the NMR spectra with temperature. The degree of biasing is described by orientational order parameters. With the use of these order parameters, it is shown that the temperature dependence of the anisotropic contribution to the chemical shift for 31P can be predicted from that of the deuterium quadrupole splittings.
mesh_terms: D003903:Deuterium; D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008433:Mathematics; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D011663:Pulmonary Surfactants; D003903:Deuterium
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