Structure and Composition of Native Membrane Derived Polymer-Supported Lipid Bilayers
| Autor: | Antonious Armonious, Anders Gunnarsson, Fredrik Höök, Samantha Micciulla, Hudson Pace, Björn Agnarsson, Yuri Gerelli, Jonas K. Hannestad, Peter Sjövall, Marco Adamo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Lipid Bilayers
Spectrometry Mass Secondary Ion 02 engineering and technology Glycerophospholipids Spodoptera 010402 general chemistry 01 natural sciences Analytical Chemistry Polyethylene Glycols Cell membrane Biomimetic Materials medicine Fluorescence microscope Animals Lipid bilayer Chemistry Vesicle Cell Membrane 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 0104 chemical sciences Secondary ion mass spectrometry Neutron Diffraction Membrane medicine.anatomical_structure Microscopy Fluorescence Biophysics Neutron reflectometry 0210 nano-technology Polymer supported |
| Zdroj: | Analytical chemistry. 90(21) |
| ISSN: | 1520-6882 |
| Popis: | Over the last two decades, supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) have been extensively used as model systems to study cell membrane structure and function. While SLBs have been traditionally produced from simple lipid mixtures, there has been a recent surge in compositional complexity to better mimic cellular membranes and thereby bridge the gap between classic biophysical approaches and cell experiments. To this end, native cellular membrane derived SLBs (nSLBs) have emerged as a new category of SLBs. As a new type of biomimetic material, an analytical workflow must be designed to characterize its molecular composition and structure. Herein, we demonstrate how a combination of fluorescence microscopy, neutron reflectometry, and secondary ion mass spectrometry offers new insights on structure, composition, and quality of nSLB systems formed using so-called hybrid vesicles, which are a mixture of native membrane material and synthetic lipids. With this approach, we demonstrate that the nSLB formed a continuous structure with complete mixing of the synthetic and native membrane components and a molecular stoichiometry that essentially mirrors that of the hybrid vesicles. Furthermore, structural investigation of the nSLB revealed that PEGylated lipids do not significantly thicken the hydration layer between the bilayer and substrate when on silicon substrates; however, nSLBs do have more topology than their simpler, purely synthetic counterparts. Beyond new insights regarding the structure and composition of nSLB systems, this work also serves to guide future researchers in producing and characterizing nSLBs from their cellular membrane of choice. |
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