Calorimetric detection of a sub-main transition in long-chain phosphatidylcholine lipid bilayers.
The existence of a sub-main transition in multilamellar bilayers composed of long-chain saturated diacyl phosphatidylcholine (DC17PC, DC18PC, DC19PC, and DC20PC) is reported for the first time using high-sensitivity differential scanning calorimetry. The highly cooperative sub-main transition which takes place over a narrow temperature range positioned between the well-known pre-transition and main-transition is characterized by a heat capacity curve with a half-height width of delta T1/2 congruent to 0.15 C degrees and an enthalpy change, delta H, which is a few percent of the transition enthalpy for the main-transition of the lipid bilayer.
Department of Physical Chemistry, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
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D002152:Calorimetry, Differential Scanning; D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000737:chemistry*; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines / Q000737:chemistry*
D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines