title: Packing behaviour of two predominant anionic phospholipids of bacterial cytoplasmic membranes.
abstract: Phosphatidylglycerol and cardiolipin represent the most abundant anionic phospholipid components of cytoplasmic bacterial membranes and thus are used as constituents for membrane mimetic systems. In this study, we have characterized the temperature dependent phase behaviour of the binary system dipalmitoyl-phosphatidylglycerol (DPPG) and tetramyristoyl-cardiolipin (TMCL) using microcalorimetry and X-ray scattering techniques. Both lipids exhibited a very similar main transition temperature ( approximately 41 degrees C), showing a minimum (39.4 degrees C) for the binary mixtures at X(DPPG)=0.8, and exhibited low-temperature phase transitions, which were abolished by incorporation of small amounts (<or=10mol%) of the other lipid component. Therefore, over a wide temperature and composition range a lamellar L(beta) gel phase is the predominant structure below the chain melting transition, characterized by a relatively broad wide-angle peak for X(DPPG)<or=0.8. This observation suggests the existence of packing inconsistencies of the TMCL/DPPG hydrocarbon lattices in the gel phase, supported by the small average size of lipid clusters ( approximately 50 lipids) within this composition range. The bilayer thickness for the lamellar-gel phase showed a monotonic increase (56A for TMCL to about 58A for X(DPPG)=0.8 at 30 degrees C), which may be explained by different degrees of partial interdigitation of the acyl chains to compensate for the differences in the hydrocarbon lengths of DPPG and TMCL in the L(beta) phase.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Schmiedlstrasse 6, A-8042 Graz, Austria.
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Prossnigg
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hickel
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pabst
authors.forename: Karl
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lohner
mesh_terms: D002152:Calorimetry, Differential Scanning; D002308:Cardiolipins / Q000737:chemistry*; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000737:chemistry*; D006094:Gram-Positive Bacteria / Q000737:chemistry*; D044367:Phase Transition; D010715:Phosphatidylglycerols / Q000737:chemistry*; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
chemical_list: D002308:Cardiolipins; D010715:Phosphatidylglycerols; C529176:tetramyristoyl cardiolipin; C030345:1,2-dipalmitoylphosphatidylglycerol
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