Phase behaviour of dehydrated phosphatidylcholines

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• 作者：Samuel K. Owusu-Ware ; Babur Z. Chowdhry…
• 关键词：Phospholipids ; Dehydrated phosphatidylcholines ; DSC ; Phase transitions
• 刊名：Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：127
• 期：1
• 页码：415-421
• 全文大小：938KB
• 刊物类别：Chemistry and Materials Science
• 刊物主题：Physical Chemistry; Analytical Chemistry; Polymer Sciences; Inorganic Chemistry; Measurement Science and Instrumentation;
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1588-2926
• 卷排序：127

文摘

Dehydrated DLPC, DMPC, DPPC and DSPC have been characterised at temperatures below the diacyl carbon chain-melting transition (T_m), using DSC. For the first time, the existence of pre-Tm transition processes, which are, usually, only observed in the colloidal/liposomal state of saturated phospholipids, has been detected for the dehydrated phosphatidylcholines. Temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry was used to characterise the several complexes, overlapping pre-T_m transition processes. Kinetic studies of the chain-melting (T_m) transition show the activation energy dependence on α (conversion rate), i.e. activation energy decreases as the transition progresses, pointing to the importance of initial cooperative (intra- and inter-molecular) mobility. Furthermore, the activation energy increases with increase in diacyl chain length of the phosphatidylcholines which supports the finding that greater molecular interactions of the polymer chain and its head groups in the dehydrated solid state lead to enhanced stability of dehydrated phosphatidylcholines.