Abstract
The role of diacylglycerol (DAG) chain motions in binary mixtures of DAG with dipalmitoylphosphatidyl choline (DPPC) has been studied using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The DAGs used in this study were synthesized to have different extents of chain restriction. This was accomplished via tethering of two long hydrocarbon chains by a reducible disulfide bond at different depths in the chain. The disulfide tether provides the advantage of comparing the effect of incorporation of each of these chain restricted DAGs in DPPC vesicles with their reduced analogue, in which the S-S linkage could be opened up to -SH by in situ treatment with a reducing agent, dithiothreitol (DTT). DSC analysis with such mixtures reveals that restriction of chains at different depths in the DAGs lead to very different properties of the overall DPPC/DAG coaggregate. DAGs in which the disulfide tether is located at the middle of the chain have only partial chain restriction. Incorporation of this type of DAG in DPPC destabilizes the resulting vesicles while the end-tethered DAGs upon incorporation in DPPC vesicles lead to stabilization of the coaggregates. Similar studies with the reduced, open-chain analogues reveal that release in chain restriction leads to extra stabilization in the coaggregates.
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