{"title":"Thermodynamic study on hydrated bilayers of ether-linked phosphatidylcholines with terminal perfluorobutyl group","authors":"Masaya Miyazaki , Chika Arisaka , Ai Nakagawara , Nanako Sasaki , Hiroshi Takahashi , Toshiyuki Takagi , Hideki Amii , Masashi Sonoyama","doi":"10.1016/j.bbamem.2023.184261","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Novel terminally perfluorobutyl group-containing ether-linked phosphatidylcholines with different alkyl chain lengths (di-</span><em>O</em>-F4-Cn-PCs, <em>n</em> = 14,16 and 18) were developed as possible materials for stable liposomes aiming at applications of structural and functional analyses of membrane proteins. Differential scanning calorimetric investigations of the thermotropic transition of hydrated di-<em>O</em><span>-F4-Cn-PC bilayers demonstrated that the transition temperature of every di-</span><em>O</em>-F4-Cn-PC decreases by ~20 °C compared to their corresponding non-fluorinated PCs, di-<em>O</em>-Cn-PCs. With the elongation of the hydrophobic chain, on the other hand, the transition enthalpy (ΔH) and entropy (ΔS) increased in a linear manner. Comparison of ΔH and ΔS values against the net hydrocarbon chain length between di-<em>O</em>-F4-Cn-PCs and di-<em>O</em>-Cn-PCs strongly suggests that in the thermotropic transition of the di-<em>O</em>-F4-Cn-PC membrane, the perfluorobutyl segments undergo very limited structural changes; therefore, the hydrocarbon segments are mainly responsible for the phase transition.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":2,"journal":{"name":"ACS Applied Bio Materials","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.6000,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACS Applied Bio Materials","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005273623001438","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MATERIALS SCIENCE, BIOMATERIALS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Novel terminally perfluorobutyl group-containing ether-linked phosphatidylcholines with different alkyl chain lengths (di-O-F4-Cn-PCs, n = 14,16 and 18) were developed as possible materials for stable liposomes aiming at applications of structural and functional analyses of membrane proteins. Differential scanning calorimetric investigations of the thermotropic transition of hydrated di-O-F4-Cn-PC bilayers demonstrated that the transition temperature of every di-O-F4-Cn-PC decreases by ~20 °C compared to their corresponding non-fluorinated PCs, di-O-Cn-PCs. With the elongation of the hydrophobic chain, on the other hand, the transition enthalpy (ΔH) and entropy (ΔS) increased in a linear manner. Comparison of ΔH and ΔS values against the net hydrocarbon chain length between di-O-F4-Cn-PCs and di-O-Cn-PCs strongly suggests that in the thermotropic transition of the di-O-F4-Cn-PC membrane, the perfluorobutyl segments undergo very limited structural changes; therefore, the hydrocarbon segments are mainly responsible for the phase transition.