Effect of plant monofunctional pentacyclic triterpenes on the dynamic and structural properties of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine bilayers
作者:Sonia Rodrı́guez、Horacio A Garda、Horacio Heinzen、Patrick Moyna
DOI:10.1016/s0009-3084(97)00068-6
日期:1997.10
Fluorescence lifetime and rotational behaviour of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3-5-hexatriene (DPH) and 1-(4-trimethylammoniumphenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5 hexatriene (TMA-DPH) were used to study the influence of several monofunctional pentacyclic triterpenes on the structural and dynamic properties of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) bilayers. The plant monoalcohols alpha-amiryn, lupeol and taraxerol, the semisynthetic (H-18-alpha)-alpha-amiryn, and the ketone taraxerone were studied in comparison with cholesterol. Among them, only alpha-amiryn is incorporated at as high levels as cholesterol into DPPC bilayers. At 50 mol%, it results in the phase transition vanishing. Pentacyclic monoalcohols are more potent than cholesterol to decrease the DPPC gel phase order, but less potent than it to increase the liquid-crystalline state order. They also produce more packing defects than cholesterol in DPPC bilayers. These effects correlate with the absence of planarity in the pentacyclic skeleton, which would obstruct the 'all trans' packing of acyl chains in the gel state and Van der Waals interactions in the liquid-crystalline state. Taraxerone has little effect on DPPC bilayers, probably due to its difficulty to form hydrogen bonds. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd.