title: The interaction of various cholesterol 'ancestors' with lipid membranes: a 2H-NMR study on oriented bilayers.
abstract: The effect of putative cholesterol 'precursors' on model membranes has been studied by deuterium nuclear, magnetic resonance (2H-NMR) spectroscopy. Oriented bilayers were prepared from 1-myristoyl-2-[2H27 myristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC-d27) and tricyclohexaprenols or octaprenediols. Order parameter profiles were determined and showed that tricyclohexaprenols and octaprenediols increase the acyl chain order in DMPC bilayers, but to a smaller extent than cholesterol. The order parameter increases, depending on the chain position, from 5% to 7% in the presence of ditertiary octaprenediol, and from 16% to 21% in the presence of tricyclohexaprenol-Z,Z. Aqueous multilamellar dispersions of DMPC-d27 and of DMPC-d27 containing 30 mol% tricyclohexaprenol-E,E were prepared, and the first moments calculated from 2H-NMR spectra over the temperature range 5-55 degrees C. Tricyclohexaprenol-E,E almost abolishes the phase transition of DMPC. Thus, as predicted, tricyclohexaprenols and octaprenediols have a cholesterol-like behaviour in lipid membranes; however their effect on the model DMPC system is weak. On the contrary, isoarborinol has no effect on the lipid chain order in the liquid-crystalline phase of DMPC bilayers. 2H-NMR spectra of aqueous dispersions of DMPC-d27 and 30 mol% isoarborinol between 25 and 60 degrees C showed the coexistence of two lamellar phases over a wide temperature range, which was confirmed by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and 31P-NMR spectroscopy. This absence of ordering effect of isoarborinol might be related to some inherent structural features.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Chimie Organique des Substances Naturelles, associé au CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Krajewski-Bertrand
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Milon
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakatani
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Ourisson
mesh_terms: D000438:Alcohols / Q000737:chemistry; D002784:Cholesterol / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D004134:Dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine; D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008956:Models, Chemical; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D000438:Alcohols; D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D002784:Cholesterol; D004134:Dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine