Phase behavior of the DOPE + DOPC + alkanol system.
Soft Matter
; 10(31): 5842-8, 2014 Aug 21.
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ABSTRACT
Small- and wide-angle X-ray diffraction was used to study the effect of 1-alkanols, as simple models of general anesthetics, (abbreviation CnOH, n = 8-18 is the even number of carbons in the aliphatic chain) on the lamellar to hexagonal Lαâ H(II) phase transition in the dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine-dioleoylphosphatidylcholine = 3 1 mol/mol (DOPE + DOPC) system. All studied CnOHs were found to decrease the phase transition temperature of the DOPE + DOPC system in a CnOH chain length and concentration dependent manner and thus promote the formation of the HII phase. Anesthetically active C8OH and C10OH were found to decrease the lattice parameter d of the Lα phase, however longer non-anesthetic CnOHs increased the parameter d; this effect being more pronounced with increasing CnOH concentration. The lattice parameter of the HII phase was decreased in the presence of all CnOHs, even at the lowest concentrations studied. In the scope of the indirect mechanism of general anesthesia observed changes in the lattice parameter d (reflecting changes in the bilayer thickness) due to the intercalation of C8OH and C10OH might induce changes in the activity of integral membrane proteins engaged in neuronal pathways.
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Fosfatidilcolinas
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Fosfatidiletanolaminas
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Soft Matter
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2014
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Eslováquia