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Biophysical Journal 63: 897-902 (1992)
© 1992 the Biophysical Society
Department of Pathology and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107.
ABSTRACT
Evidence has been found for the existence water at the protein-lipid hydrophobic interface of the membrane proteins, gramicidin and apocytochrome C, using two related fluorescence spectroscopic approaches. The first approach exploited the fact that the presence of water in the excited state solvent cage of a fluorophore increases the rate of decay. For 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH) and 1-palmitoyl-2-[[2-[4-(6-phenyl-trans-1,3,5- hexatrienyl)phenyl]ethyl]carbonyl]-3-sn-PC (DPH-PC), where the fluorophores are located in the hydrophobic core of the lipid bilayer, the introduction of gramicidin reduced the fluorescence lifetime, indicative of an increased presence of water in the bilayer. Since a high protein:lipid ratio was used, the fluorophores were forced to be adjacent to the protein hydrophobic surface, hence the presence of water in this region could be inferred. Cholesterol is known to reduce the water content of lipid bilayers and this effect was maintained at the protein-lipid interface with both gramicidin and apocytochrome C, again suggesting hydration in this region. The second approach was to use the fluorescence enhancement induced by exchanging deuterium oxide (D2O) for H2O. Both the fluorescence intensities of trimethylammonium-DPH, located in the lipid head group region, and of the gramicidin intrinsic tryptophans were greater in a D2O buffer compared with H2O, showing that the fluorophores were exposed to water in the bilayer at the protein-lipid interface. In the presence of cholesterol the fluorescence intensity ratio of D2O to H2O decreased, indicating a removal of water by the cholesterol, in keeping with the lifetime data.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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