TY - JOUR
T1 - Organization of fluorescent cholesterol analogs in lipid bilayers — Lessons from cyclodextrin extraction
AU - Milles, Sigrid
AU - Meyer, Thomas
AU - Scheidt, Holger A.
AU - Schwarzer, Roland
AU - Thomas, Lars
AU - Marek, Magdalena
AU - Szente, Lajos
AU - Bittman, Robert
AU - Herrmann, Andreas
AU - Günther-Pomorski, Thomas
AU - Huster, Daniel
AU - Müller, Peter
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - To characterize the structure and dynamics of cholesterol in membranes, fluorescent analogs of the native molecule have widely been employed. The cholesterol content in membranes is in general manipulated by using water-soluble cyclodextrins. Since the interactions between cyclodextrins and fluorescent-labeled cholesterol have not been investigated in detail so far, we have compared the cyclodextrin-mediated membrane extraction of three different fluorescent cholesterol analogs (one bearing a NBD and two bearing BODIPY moieties). Extraction of these analogs was followed by measuring the Förster resonance energy transfer between a rhodamine moiety linked to phosphatidylethanolamine and the labeled cholesterol. The extraction kinetics revealed that the analogs are differently extracted from membranes. We examined the orientation of the analogs within the membrane and their influence on lipid condensation using NMR and EPR spectroscopies. Our data indicate that the extraction of fluorescent sterols from membranes is determined by several parameters, including their impact on lipid order, their hydrophobicity, their intermolecular interactions with surrounding lipids, their orientation within the bilayer, and their affinity with the exogenous acceptor.
AB - To characterize the structure and dynamics of cholesterol in membranes, fluorescent analogs of the native molecule have widely been employed. The cholesterol content in membranes is in general manipulated by using water-soluble cyclodextrins. Since the interactions between cyclodextrins and fluorescent-labeled cholesterol have not been investigated in detail so far, we have compared the cyclodextrin-mediated membrane extraction of three different fluorescent cholesterol analogs (one bearing a NBD and two bearing BODIPY moieties). Extraction of these analogs was followed by measuring the Förster resonance energy transfer between a rhodamine moiety linked to phosphatidylethanolamine and the labeled cholesterol. The extraction kinetics revealed that the analogs are differently extracted from membranes. We examined the orientation of the analogs within the membrane and their influence on lipid condensation using NMR and EPR spectroscopies. Our data indicate that the extraction of fluorescent sterols from membranes is determined by several parameters, including their impact on lipid order, their hydrophobicity, their intermolecular interactions with surrounding lipids, their orientation within the bilayer, and their affinity with the exogenous acceptor.
U2 - 10.1016/j.bbamem.2013.04.002
DO - 10.1016/j.bbamem.2013.04.002
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 23583923
SN - 0005-2736
VL - 1828
SP - 1822
EP - 1828
JO - B B A - Biomembranes
JF - B B A - Biomembranes
IS - 8
ER -