Biophys J, February 1998, p. 879-891, Vol. 74, No. 2

Molecular Order and Dynamics in Bilayers Consisting of Highly Polyunsaturated Phospholipids

Section of Fluorescence Studies, Laboratory of Membrane Biophysics and Biochemistry, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland 20852 USA

The time-resolved fluorescence emission and decay of fluorescence anisotropy of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH) was used to characterize equilibrium and dynamic bilayer structural properties of symmetrically substituted phosphatidylcholines (PCs) with acyl chains containing no, one, four, or six double bonds and mixed-chain phosphatidylcholines with a saturated sn-1 chain and one, four, or six double bonds in the sn-2 chain. Both the Brownian rotational diffusion (BRD) model and the wobble-in-cone model were fit to all differential polarization data, and the descriptions of the data provided by the BRD model were found to be statistically superior. Global analysis of differential polarization data revealed two statistically equivalent solutions. The solution corresponding to a bimodal orientational distribution function, f(), was selected based on the effects of temperature on f() and previous measurements on fixed, oriented bilayers. The overall equilibrium acyl chain order in these bilayers was analyzed by comparing the orientational probability distribution for DPH, f() sin , with a random orientational distribution. Orientational order decreased and probe dynamics increased in mixed-chain species as the unsaturation of the sn-2 chain was increased. The degree of orientational order dropped dramatically in the dipolyunsaturated species compared with the mixed-chain phosphatidylcholines, which contained a polyunsaturated sn-2 chain. In terms of both orientational order and probe dynamics, the differences between the highly polyunsaturated species and the monounsaturated species were much greater than the differences between the monounsaturated species and a disaturated PC.

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