Interaction of charged lipid vesicles with planar bilayer lipid membranes: Detection by antibiotic membrane probes
✍ Scribed by Cohen, Joel A. ;Moronne, Mario M.
- Publisher
- Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
- Year
- 1976
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 493 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0091-7419
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
A technique has been developed for monitoring the interaction of charged phospholipid vesicles with planar bilayer lipid membranes (BLM) by use of the antibiotics Valinomycin, Nonactin, and Monazomycin as surface‐charge probes. Anionic phosphatidylserine vesicles, when added to one aqueous compartment of a BLM, are shown to impart negative surface charge to zwitterionic phosphatidylocholine and phosphatidylethanolamine bilayers. The surface charge is distributed asymmertically, mainly on the vesicular side of the BLM, and is not removed by exchange of the vesicular aqueous solution. Possible mechanisms for the vesicle‐BLM interactions are discussed.