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INTRODUCTION: LIPID-PROTEIN INTERACTIONS<br />

Figure I.19 – View from above <strong>of</strong> lipid binding sites on a TM domain surface. Two lipid species (L 1<br />

and L 2 ) are shown exchanging at one site.<br />

At each site an equilibrium exists:<br />

PL 1 + L 2 PL 2 + L 1<br />

where PL 1 and PL 2 are the protein-lipid complexes <strong>with</strong> lipid species 1 and 2. This<br />

equilibrium can be described by a binding constant (K b ):<br />

b<br />

[ PL<br />

2<br />

] ⋅[ L1]<br />

[ PL ] ⋅[ L ]<br />

K =<br />

2.4<br />

1<br />

2<br />

If L 2 is present at small amounts in the system (L 2 > [PL 2 ], then the probability (µ) <strong>of</strong> a lipid<br />

annular site to be occupied by L 2 is:<br />

[ PL<br />

2<br />

]<br />

[ PL ] + [ PL ]<br />

2<br />

1<br />

[ PL<br />

2<br />

]<br />

[ PL ]<br />

1<br />

b<br />

[ L<br />

2<br />

]<br />

[ L ]<br />

µ = = = K ⋅<br />

2.5<br />

1<br />

Through knowledge <strong>of</strong> [PL 2 ] ([PL 1 ]=[P]-[PL 2 ]), and the concentration <strong>of</strong> the lipid<br />

species 1 and 2 it is then possible to recover a binding constant for protein-lipid<br />

selectivity.<br />

The most popular methodologies for quantifying protein-lipid selectivity have been<br />

the already described ESR measurements <strong>with</strong> spin labelled lipids, and measurements <strong>of</strong><br />

protein fluorescence quenching by brominated lipids (East and Lee, 1982; O’ Keeffe et<br />

al., 2000; Williamson et al., 2002; Powl et al., 2003). From these <strong>studies</strong>, binding<br />

constants were retrieved as function <strong>of</strong> fatty-acid chain for a series <strong>of</strong> <strong>proteins</strong> (Fig.<br />

I.20).<br />

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