The interaction of cytochrome c with monolayers of phosphatidylethanolamine.
1. The interaction between [(14)C]carboxymethylated cytochrome c and monolayers of egg phosphatidylethanolamine at the air/water interface has been investigated by measurements of surface radioactivity, pressure and potential. 2. On adding (14)C-labelled cytochrome c to the subphase under monolayers with a surface pressure below 24dynes/cm. there was an initial surface pressure increment as the protein penetrated, followed by an adsorption that could be detected only by a continued increase in the surface radioactivity. 3. Above film pressures of 24dynes/cm. only adsorption was observed, i.e. an increment in surface radioactivity with none in surface pressure. 4. The changes in surface parameters with penetration of cytochrome c added to the subphase were indirectly proportional to the initial pressure of the monolayer. With hydrogenated phosphatidylethanolamine the constant of proportionality was increased but penetration again ceased at 24dynes/cm. 5. On compressing a phosphatidylethanolamine film containing penetrated cytochrome c to 40dynes/cm. only a proportion of the protein was ejected on a subphase of 10mm-sodium chloride, whereas on a subphase of m-sodium chloride nearly all the protein was lost. 6. With both penetration and adsorption only a small proportion of the added cytochrome c interacted with the phospholipid films, and initially the amount bound was proportional to the added protein concentration. There was no evidence of a stoicheiometric relationship between the protein and phospholipid or the build-up of multilayers. The bonded protein was not released by removing cytochrome c from the subphase. 7. The addition of m-sodium chloride to the subphase delays the rate of protein penetration into low-pressure films, but the final surface-pressure increment is not appreciably decreased. In contrast, m-sodium chloride almost completely stops adsorption on to films at all pressures. 8. When sodium chloride is added to the subphase below cytochrome c adsorbed to monolayers at high pressures, so that the final concentration is 1m, only a proportion of the protein is desorbed and this decreases as the time of the interaction increases. This indicates that adsorption is initially electrostatic, followed by the formation of non-ionic bonds. 9. Alteration of the subphase pH under a high-pressure film leads to a steady increase in adsorption from pH3 to 8.5 followed by a rapid fall to zero adsorption at pH11. 10. The penetration into phospholipid monolayers at 10dynes/cm. shows a rate that is consistent with the relative electrostatic status of the two components of the interaction as the subphase pH is varied between 3 and 10.5. The final equilibrium penetration shows a pronounced peak in the increments of surface pressure at pH9.0 although a similar peak is not observed in the surface radioactivity. This indicates that more residues of the protein are penetrating into the film at about this pH. 11. Determinations were made of the electrophoretic mobilities of phosphatidylethanolamine particles both alone and after interaction with cytochrome c. 12. The electrophoretic mobilities of cytochrome c adsorbed on lipid particles showed an isoelectric point below that of cytochrome c. This and the observations on the monolayers suggest that, with cytochrome c, protein-protein interactions are weak compared with other proteins.
D000327:Adsorption; D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D003580:Cytochromes; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008074:Lipoproteins; D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D010714:Phosphatidylethanolamines; D011199:Potentiometry; D011312:Pressure; D012965:Sodium Chloride
D002247:Carbon Isotopes; D003580:Cytochromes; D008074:Lipoproteins; D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D010714:Phosphatidylethanolamines; D012965:Sodium Chloride
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