Membrane鈥揝ugar Interactions Probed by Pulsed Electron Paramagnetic Resonance of Spin Labels

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• 作者：Konstantin B. Konov ; Dmitry V. Leonov ; Nikolay P. Isaev ; Kirill Yu. Fedotov ; Violeta K. Voronkova ; Sergei A. Dzuba
• 刊名：Journal of Physical Chemistry B
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：August 13, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：119
• 期：32
• 页码：10261-10266
• 全文大小：312K
• ISSN：1520-5207

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Sugars can stabilize biological systems under extreme desiccation and freezing conditions. Hypothetical molecular mechanisms suggest that the stabilization effect may be determined either by specific interactions of sugars with biological molecules or by the influence of sugars on the solvating shell of the biomolecule. To explore membrane鈥搒ugar interactions, we applied electron spin echo envelope modulation (ESEEM) spectroscopy, a pulsed version of electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), to phospholipid bilayers with spin-labeled lipids added and solvated by aqueous deuterated sucrose and trehalose solutions. The phospholipids were 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC). The spin-labeled lipids were 1,2-dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phospho(TEMPO)choline (T-PCSL), with spin-label TEMPO at the lipid polar headgroup. The deuterium ESEEM amplitude was calibrated using known concentrations of glassy deuterated sugar solvents. The data obtained indicated that the sugar concentration near the membrane surface obeyed a simple Langmuir model of monolayer adsorption, which assumes direct sugar-molecule bonding to the bilayer surface.