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drying into a film and ressuspension in an aqueous environment. Suspensions of liposomes prepared in this manner are composed by concentric bilayers or multilamellar vesicles (MLV’s). Due to this arrangement of the lipid vesicles, most of the lipid bilayer surface is buried inside the liposome, as only about 10 % is found in the outside surface (Yeagle, 1993). The application of MLV´s in photophysical studies can result in several difficulties. Due to the size of the MLV’s particles, scattering is very significant and for these reason, MLV´s are seldom used. There are different strategies for obtaining unilamellar liposomes. By applying ultrasonic power to suspensions of liposomes, unilamellar vesicles of small diameter (~30 Å), also called small unilamellar vesicle (SUV) are obtained. Due to the smaller size of the particles, scattering in suspensions of SUV’s is drastically reduced, however the curvature of SUV’s is much higher than the curvature of cell membranes, resulting in poor mimics of the properties of biomembranes. Larger unilamellar vesicles (LUV’s) can be produced either by dialysis of detergents, reverse phase evaporation, or fast extrusion through polycarbonate filters. The latter method is particularly useful due to the shorter times required when compared to the other ones, e.g., dialysis of detergents can take several days for efficient removal of detergent from liposomes (for a review, see Gennis, 1989). Much larger unilamellar vesicles (up to 300 µm) can also be prepared by gentle hydration and electroformation (Rodriguez et al., 2005). These vesicles are also known as giant unilamellar vesicles or GUV’s and are particularly suitable for microscopy applications as their size enables visualization and micromanipulation. Still, other types of membrane model systems exist. Lipid monolayers in water-air interface allow the study of the effect of the lateral surface pressure on membrane components and on the interactions between them. Black Lipid Membranes have also proven valuable in the study of electrical properties (Yeagle, 1993). 22
INTRODUCTION: LIPID-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS 2.LIPID-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS 2.1. Membrane protein reconstitution Even for the simplest organisms, membrane proteins in protein-lipid extracts are present in a very complex and heterogeneous environment, which can impair the possibility of conducting biophysical studies that require a simpler matrix for the protein (with absence of possible contaminants), and more controlled conditions. However, integral membrane proteins generally cannot be studied in homogeneous systems such as aqueous or organic solutions due to the complex solubility problems derived from their bitopic nature. In addition, the study of their properties in a isotropic medium, would not be biologically relevant. Systems are required that satisfy both the hydrophobicity of the membrane embedded sections of the protein as well as their hydrophilic domains. Liposomes are frequently used for such studies, since, as discussed in the previous section, they present good mimetic conditions of biomembranes. Liposomes containing reconstituted proteins are called proteoliposomes. In order to reconstitute membrane proteins in liposomes it is first necessary to purify and solubilize them. Neither of these procedures is trivial and detergents have proven invaluable tools in both. They meet the requirements of amphipatic structure necessary to solubilize the two different environments present in membrane proteins and these are frequently soluble in micellar structures. Detergents are classified according to the charge of the headgroup as ionic (cationic or anionic), non-ionic or zwitterionic. Examples of ionic detergents often used in membrane solubilization are sodium dodecyl sulphate (SDS) and bile acid salts. SDS is a linear chain detergent and a extremely powerful solubilizing agent for membrane proteins, however, it is also frequently denaturing. Protein renaturation is eventually possible under certain conditions after transfer to other medium (Dong et al., 1997). Bile acid salts are ionic detergents with steroidal groups for backbones. Due to the planar characteristics of the steroidal structure, instead of a proper headgroup they present a polar and an apolar face. These detergents are much weaker than SDS and more efficient in maintaining protein activity. Examples of bile acid salts are sodium cholate and sodium deoxycholate. Non-ionic detergents are also mild and relatively non-denaturating/non- 23
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BIBLIOGRAPHY IX BIBLIOGRAPHY Albert
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BIBLIOGRAPHY Phosphatidylinositol 4
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