Abstract
Bicelles, composed of a mixture of long and short chain lipids, form nanostructured molecular assemblies that are attractive lipid-membrane mimics for in vitro studies of integral membrane proteins. Here we study the effect of a third component, the single chain detergent n-dodecyl-β-d-maltoside (DDM) on the morphology of bicelles composed of 1,2-dimyristoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DMPC) and 3-[(3-cholamidopropyl)dimethylammonio]-2-hydroxy-1-propanesulfonate (CHAPSO) below (10 °C) and above (38 °C) the phase transition. In the absence of DDM, bicelles convert from ellipsoidal disks at 10 °C to extended ribbon-like structures at 38 °C. The addition of DDM reshapes the ellipsoidal disc to a circular one and the flattened ribbon to a circular-cylinder worm-like micelle. Knowledge of the influence of the single chain detergent DDM on bicelle nanoscale morphology contributes toward comprehending lipid membrane self-organization and to the goal of optimizing lipid mimics for membrane biology research.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 9834-9840 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 42 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 27 2022 |
Funding
This work was supported by NSF Grant 1817796 to R.L.L. This work benefited from the use of the SasView application, originally developed under NSF Award DMR-0520547. SasView contains code developed with funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the SINE2020 Project, Grant Agreement No. 654000. Neutron scattering studies at the CG-3 Bio-SANS instrument at the High-Flux Isotope Reactor operated by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory were sponsored by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research and by the Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy. This manuscript has been coauthored by UT-Battelle, LLC, under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The United States Government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the United States Government retains a nonexclusive, paid-up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript, or allow others to do so, for United States Government purposes. The Department of Energy will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan ( http://energy.gov/downloads/doe-public-access-plan ). We thank Dr. Haden Scott for assistance with conducting DSC measurements.
Funders | Funder number |
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Scientific User Facilities Division | |
National Science Foundation | 1817796 |
U.S. Department of Energy | |
Basic Energy Sciences | |
Biological and Environmental Research | |
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme | 654000 |
UT-Battelle | DE-AC05-00OR22725 |