title: Dependence of Alamethicin Membrane Orientation on the Solution Concentration.
abstract: Alamethicin has been extensively studied as an antimicrobial peptide and is widely used as a simple model for ion channel proteins. It has been shown that the antimicrobial activity of peptides is related to their membrane orientation. In this study, we determined the relationship between the solution concentration of alamethicin and its membrane orientation in lipid bilayers using sum frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy. Our SFG results indicated that the alamethicin molecules more or less lay down on the surface of 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (POPC) lipid bilayers at a low peptide concentration of 0.84 μM; the α-helix segment tilts at about 88°, and 310-helix segment tilts at about 58° versus the surface normal. However, when the peptide concentration was increased to 15.6 μM, we observed that alamethicin molecules further inserted into the lipid bilayers: the α-helical component changes its orientation to make a 37° tilt from the lipid bilayer normal, and the 310-helical component tilts at about 50° versus the surface normal. This is in agreement with the barrel-stave mode for the alamethicin-cell membrane interaction as reported previously. Additionally, we have also studied membrane orientation of alamethicin as a function of peptide concentration with SFG. Our results showed that the membrane orientation of the alamethicin α-helical component changed substantially with the increase of the alamethicin concentration, while the membrane orientation of the 310-helical component remained more or less the same.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, 930 North University Avenue, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109.
authors.forename: Pei
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Fu-Gen
authors.initials: FG
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Zhan
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Chen
keywords: 310-helix; Sum frequency generation vibrational spectroscopy; antimicrobial peptide; supported lipid bilayer; α-helix
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