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Thermal Fluctuation and Elasticity of Lipid Vesicles Interacting with Pore-forming Peptides Hit : 366

Ji-Hwan Lee, Sung-Min Choi, Changwoo Doe, Antonio Faraone, Phillip A. Pincus, and Steven R. Kline

105, 038101 (2010)

 http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.038101

Abstract



The thermal fluctuation and elasticity of dioleoyl-phosphocholine large unilamellar vesicle interacting with pore-forming peptide, melittin, were investigated by neutron spin-echo measurements. The relaxation behavior of the membrane fluctuation with different peptide to lipid molar ratio P/L  can be divided into three regions, resulting from characteristic changes of the effective bending modulus ¥ê ˜   of the membrane which includes the effects of internal dissipation within the membrane. At low P/L  , melittin is adsorbed parallel to the surface of membrane and ¥ê ˜   decreases significantly due to perturbation of hydrocarbon chain packing. At a critical P/L  , melittin forms pores in the membrane and ¥ê ˜   starts to increase slightly due to high pore rigidity. At higher P/L  where the repulsive interpore interaction becomes significant, ¥ê ˜   increases rapidly.

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