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A photo-responsive cholesterol capable of inducing a morphological transformation of the liquid-ordered microdomain in lipid bilayers
被引:17
|作者:
Yasuhara, Kazuma
[1
]
Sasaki, Yoshihiro
[1
]
Kikuchi, Jun-ichi
[1
]
机构:
[1] Nara Inst Sci & Technol, Grad Sch Mat Sci, Nara 6300192, Japan
关键词:
Liquid-ordered domain;
Lipid raft;
Azobenzene;
Photoisomerization;
Molecular packing;
D O I:
10.1007/s00396-008-1936-5
中图分类号:
O64 [物理化学(理论化学)、化学物理学];
学科分类号:
070304 ;
081704 ;
摘要:
An azobenzene-modified cholesterol was designed and synthesized for photo-induced domain transformation in lipid bilayer membranes. Upon UV-light irradiation, the cholesterol derivative changes the conformation through photoisomerization of the azobenzene moiety from trans- to cis-form. The photoisomerization effectively occurred both in liquid-ordered (L-o) and liquid-disordered (L-d) phases. Phase-contrast and fluorescence microscopic observation revealed that photoisomerization of the azobenzene-modified cholesterol induced the shape transformation of giant unilamellar vesicle (GUV) and the reorganization of L-o domain structure. Such a photo-induced transformation of lipid domain gave two different pathways dependent on the lipid composition of GUV; disappearance of the L-o domain or appearance of a small L-d domain with in the L-o domain.
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页码:1675 / 1680
页数:6
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