title: Membrane orientation of MSI-78 measured by sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy.
abstract: Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) selectively disrupt bacterial cell membranes to kill bacteria whereas they either do not or weakly interact with mammalian cells. The orientations of AMPs in lipid bilayers mimicking bacterial and mammalian cell membranes are related to their antimicrobial activity and selectivity. To understand the role of AMP-lipid interactions in the functional properties of AMPs better, we determined the membrane orientation of an AMP (MSI-78 or pexiganan) in various model membranes using sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy. A solid-supported single 1,2-dipalmitoyl-an-glycero-3-[phospho-rac-(1-glycerol)] (DPPG) bilayer or 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-[phospho-rac-(1-glycerol)] (POPG) bilayer was used as a model bacterial cell membrane. A supported 1,2-dipalmitoyl-an-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) bilayer or a 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) bilayer was used as a model mammalian cell membrane. Our SFG results indicate that the helical MSI-78 molecules are associated with the bilayer surface with ∼70° deviation from the bilayer normal in the negatively charged gel-phase DPPG bilayer at 400 nM peptide concentration. However, when the concentration was increased to 600 nM, MSI-78 molecules changed their orientation to make a 25° tilt from the lipid bilayer normal whereas multiple orientations were observed for an even higher peptide concentration in agreement with toroidal-type pore formation as reported in a previous solid-state NMR study. In contrary, no interaction between MSI-78 and a zwitterionic DPPC bilayer was observed even at a much higher peptide concentration (∼12,000 nM). These results demonstrate that SFG can provide insights into the antibacterial activity and selectivity of MSI-78. Interestingly, the peptide exhibits a concentration-dependent membrane orientation in the lamellar-phase POPG bilayer and was also found to induce toroidal-type pore formation. The deduced lipid flip-flop from SFG signals observed from lipids also supports MSI-78-induced toroidal-type pore formation.
authors: Biophysics and Department of Chemistry, 930 North University Avenue, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
authors: Pei
authors: P
authors: Yang
authors: Ayyalusamy
authors: A
authors: Ramamoorthy
authors: Zhan
authors: Z
authors: Chen
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