title: Lipid-phase structure in epithelial cell membranes: comparison of renal brush border and basolateral membranes.
abstract: The lipid-phase structures of brush border membrane vesicles (BBMV) and basolateral membrane vesicles (BLMV) isolated from rabbit renal cortex were compared by steady-state and phase-modulation measurements of diphenylhexatriene (DPH) and trans- and cis-parinaric acid (tPnA and cPnA) fluorescence. A temperature-scanning system was used which gave reproducible temperature profiles of steady-state and dynamic fluorescence parameters with a resolution of 0.1 degrees C. Steady-state anisotropy of DPH showed a triphasic dependence on temperature with slope discontinuities at 22 +/- 4 and 47 +/- 3 degrees C (BBMV) and at 23 +/- 2 and 48 +/- 1 degrees C (BLMV). At all temperatures, DPH anisotropy in BBMV was greater than that in BLMV. Ground-state heterogeneity analysis of tPnA and cPnA fluorescence lifetime data demonstrated the presence of long (greater than 12 ns) and short (less than 5 ns) lifetime components, interpreted in terms of solid-phase and fluid-phase lipid domains. The fraction of solid-phase phospholipid decreased from 0.9 to 0.1 for BBMV and from 0.7 to 0.3 in BLMV with increasing temperature (10-50 degrees C). In both membranes, tryptophan-PnA fluorescence energy-transfer measurements showed that membrane proteins were surrounded by a fluidlike phospholipid phase. These results demonstrate the inadequacy of steady-state DPH anisotropy data in defining the structural characteristics of complex biological membranes. Results obtained with the phase-sensitive parinaric acid probes demonstrate major differences in the phase structure of the two opposing cell membranes in both the bulk lipid and the lipid microenvironment around membrane proteins.
authors: Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco 94143.
authors: N P
authors: NP
authors: Illsley
authors: H Y
authors: HY
authors: Lin
authors: A S
authors: AS
authors: Verkman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002458:Cell Fractionation; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000032:analysis* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D004848:Epithelium / Q000032:analysis; D007672:Kidney Cortex / Q000032:analysis; D008563:Membrane Lipids / Q000032:analysis*; D008871:Microvilli / Q000032:analysis* / Q000648:ultrastructure; D011817:Rabbits; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D008563:Membrane Lipids