Biophysical Journal 68: 1374-1382 (1995)
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Characterization of complexes formed in fully hydrated dispersions of dipalmitoyl derivatives of phosphatidylcholine and diacylglycerol.

Department of Biochemistry, King's College London, United Kingdom.

ABSTRACT

The phase diagram of fully hydrated binary mixtures of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) with 1,2-dipalmitoylglycerol (DPG) published recently by López-García et al. identifies regions where stoichiometric complexes of 1:1 and 1:2 DPPC:DPG, respectively, are formed. In this study, the structural parameters of the 1:1 complex in the presence of pure DPPC was characterized by synchrotron low angle and static x-ray diffraction methods. Structural changes upon transitions through phase boundaries were correlated with enthalpy changes observed by differential scanning calorimetry in mixtures of DPPC with 5, 7.5, 10, and 20 mol% DPG dispersed in excess water. Phase separation of a complex in gel phase could be detected by calorimetry in the mixture containing 5 mol% DPG but was not detectable by synchrotron low angle x-ray diffraction. Static x-ray measurements show evidence of phase separation, particularly in the reflections indexing chain packing. In the mixture containing 7.5 mol% DPG, two distinct lamellar repeat spacings could be seen in the temperature range from 25 to 34 degrees C. The lamellar spacing of about 6.6 nm was assigned to pure gel phase DPPC because the change in the spacing corresponds with thermal transition of the pure phospholipid, and a longer repeat spacing of about 7.2 nm was assigned to domains of the 1:1 complex of DPPC-DPG.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)

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