Biophysical Journal 67: 2367-2375 (1994)
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Components of the carbonyl stretching band in the infrared spectra of hydrated 1,2-diacylglycerolipid bilayers: a reevaluation.

Department of Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

ABSTRACT

Previous vibrational spectroscopic studies of solid acyl-alkyl and diacyl phosphatidylcholines suggested that the sn1- and sn2-carbonyl stretching modes of 1,2-diacylglycerolipids have different absorption maxima. To address the assignment of sn1- and sn2-carbonyl stretching modes of hydrated 1,2-diacylglycerolipids, aqueous dispersions of 1-palmitoyl-2-hexadecyl phosphatidylcholine (PHPC), 1-hexadecyl-2-palmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (HPPC), 1,2-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC), as well as hydrated samples of unlabeled, sn1-13C=O-labeled, sn2-13C=O-labeled, and doubly 13C=O-labeled dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine (DMPC) were examined by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. The ester carbonyl stretching (nu C=O) bands of HPPC and PHPC each exhibit maxima near 1726 cm-1 and appear to be a summation of three subcomponents with maxima near 1740 cm-1, 1725 and 1705-1711 cm-1. In contrast, the nu C=O band of DPPC exhibits its maximum near 1733 cm-1 and appears to be a summation of two components centered near 1742 and 1727 cm-1. Thus the ester carbonyl group of the acyl-alkyl PCs appears to reside in a more polar environment than the ester carbonyl groups of their diacyl analogue. This observation implies that the polar/apolar interfaces of hydrated bilayers formed by PHPC and by HPPC are significantly different from that of DPPC and raises the question of whether the acyl-alkyl PCs are suitable models of their diacyl analogue. The absorption maximum of the nu C=O band of the doubly 13C=O-labeled DMPC occurs near 1691 cm-1 and those of its subcomponents occur near 1699 and 1685 cm-1.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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