title: Interaction of choline salts with artificial biological membranes: DSC studies elucidating cellular interactions.
abstract: To better understand the relationship between the relative cytotoxicity of diluted ionic liquids and their specific interaction with biological membranes, the thermotropic behavior of model lipid membrane systems formulated in a series of choline based organic salts was investigated. Unilamellar vesicles prepared from dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine were exposed to a series of choline phosphate salts at a concentration of 10mM at pH7.40, and the gel to liquid-crystalline state transition was examined using differential scanning calorimetry. The choline salts that were observed to have a low relative toxicity in previous studies induced minimal changes in the lipid phase transition behavior of these model membranes. In contrast, the salts choline bis(2,4,4-trimethylpentyl)phosphinate and choline bis(2-ethylhexyl)phosphate, both of which were observed to have high relative toxicity, caused distinct disruptions in the lipid phase transition behavior, consistent with penetration of the salts into the acyl chains of the phospholipids. choline bis(2,4,4-trimethylpentyl)phosphinate reduced the Tm and enthalpy of the main transition of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine while choline bis(2-ethylhexyl)phosphate induced the equilibration of alternate phases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Science, The University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC 28223, USA.
authors.forename: Katherine D
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Weaver
authors.forename: Matthew P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Van Vorst
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vijayaraghavan
authors.forename: Douglas R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Macfarlane
authors.forename: Gloria D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Elliott
mesh_terms: D002152:Calorimetry, Differential Scanning; D002794:Choline / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D008051:Lipid Bilayers / Q000378:metabolism*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008563:Membrane Lipids / Q000378:metabolism*; D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D044367:Phase Transition; D012492:Salts / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D013696:Temperature; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D008051:Lipid Bilayers; D008563:Membrane Lipids; D008567:Membranes, Artificial; D012492:Salts; D002794:Choline
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