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Biophysical Journal 38: 243-249 (1982)
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Orientation of gramicidin A transmembrane channel. Infrared dichroism study of gramicidin in vesicles.

E Nabedryk, M P Gingold and J Breton

ABSTRACT

Polarized infrared spectroscopy has been used to investigate the orientation of gramicidin A incorporated in dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine liposomes. Dichroism measurements of the major lipid (C = O ester, PO2-, CH2) and peptide (amide A, I, II) bands were performed on liposomes (with or without gramicidin) oriented by air-drying. The mean orientation of the lipid groups and of the pi LD helix chain in the gramicidin has been determined. It can be inferred from infrared frequencies of gramicidin that the dominant conformation of the peptide in liposomes cannot be identified to the antiparallel double-helical dimer found in organic solution. No shift in lipid frequencies was observed upon incorporation of gramicidin in the liposomes. However, a slight reorganization of the lipid hydrocarbon chains which become oriented more closely to the normal to the bilayer is evidenced by a change in the dichroism of the CH2 vibrations. The infrared dichroism results of gramicidin imply a perpendicular orientation of the gramicidin transmembrane channel with the pi LD helix axis at less than 15 degrees with respect to the normal to the bilayer.




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