title: Oriented confined water induced by cationic lipids.
abstract: We report on attenuated total reflection Fourier-transform infrared (ATR FTIR) spectroscopic measurements on oriented lipid multilayers of N,N-dimethyl-N,N-dioctadecyl-ammonium halides (DODAX, X = F, Cl, Br, I). The main goal of this study is the investigation of the structure and spectroscopic properties of water absorbed to these model membranes. Intensities of the water stretch absorptions were used to determine the amount of bound water. At high water activity, DODAF membranes bind ~11 water molecules/lipid while DODAC and DODAB adsorb 1-2 water/lipid and DODAI was hydrophobic. By adjustment of DODAF hydration to ~2 water molecules, stretching absorptions from water of the first hydration shell were accessible for the fluoride, chloride, and bromide analogs. The polarized measurements demonstrate highly confined and oriented water with infrared (IR) order parameters ranging from 0.2 to -0.4. Resolved IR water band components are attributed to different hydrogen-bonded populations. Complementary molecular dynamics simulations of DODAB strongly support the existence of differently hydrogen-bonded and oriented water within DODAB multilayers. A combination of both techniques was used for an assignment of water stretch band components to structures. The described cationic lipid systems are a prototype for a bottom-up approach to understand the IR spectroscopy of structured water at biological interfaces since they permit a defined increase of hydrophilic water-anionic interactions leading to extended water networks at membranes.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Experimentelle Physik I, Abteilung Physik Weicher Materie, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany. lydia.woiterski@uni-leipzig.de
authors.forename: Lydia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Woiterski
authors.forename: David W
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Britt
authors.forename: Josef A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Käs
authors.forename: Carsten
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Selle
mesh_terms: D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D002412:Cations; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D057927:Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions; D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000737:chemistry*; D008958:Models, Molecular; D056004:Molecular Dynamics Simulation; D044367:Phase Transition; D000644:Quaternary Ammonium Compounds / Q000737:chemistry; D017550:Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared; D014867:Water / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D002412:Cations; D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D000644:Quaternary Ammonium Compounds; D014867:Water; C015831:dimethyldioctadecylammonium