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Biophysical Journal 43: 167-174 (1983)
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Pair distribution functions of bacteriorhodopsin and rhodopsin in model bilayers.

L T Pearson, S I Chan, B A Lewis and D M Engelman

ABSTRACT

The pair distribution functions have been measured from freeze-fracture pictures of bacteriorhodopsin and rhodopsin recombinants with diacyl phosphatidylcholines (PC) of various hydrocarbon chain lengths. Pictures were used of samples that had been frozen from above the phase transition temperature of the lipid. Measured functions were compared with those calculated from two model interparticle potential energy functions, (a) a hard-disk repulsion only, and (b) a hard-disk repulsion plus electrostatic repulsion for a point charge buried in the membrane. The measured functions for bacteriorhodopsin di 12:0 PC, di 14:0 PC, and di 16:0 PC recombinants can be simulated using an interparticle hard-disk repulsion only. Bleached rhodopsin di 12:0 PC and di 18:1 trans-PC recombinants, and dark-adapted rhodopsin di 10:0 PC recombinants yield functions that are better simulated by assuming an additional repulsive interaction. The measured functions resemble those calculated using the hard-disk plus electrostatic repulsion model. The picture of dark-adapted rhodopsin in di 18:1 trans-PC frozen from 20 degrees C shows partial aggregation that is apparent in the measured pair distribution function. This attractive interaction persists even at 37 degrees C, where the measured function shows deviations from the hard-disk repulsive model, indicative of an attractive interparticle interaction. Implications of these results are discussed in terms of protein-lipid interactions.




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