Supported lipid bilayers on spacious and pH-responsive polymer cushions with varied hydrophilicity

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Beitragende

  • Lars Renner - , Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Toshihisa Osaki - , The University of Tokyo (Autor:in)
  • Salvatore Chiantia - , Technische Universität Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Petra Schwille - , Professur für Biophysik (Autor:in)
  • Tilo Pompe - , Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden (Autor:in)
  • Carsten Werner - , Professur für Biofunktionale Polymermaterialien (gB/IPF), Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden, University of Toronto (Autor:in)

Abstract

We report the successful formation of supported multicomponent lipid bilayer membranes (sLBMs) on polymer cushions consisting of a set of alternating maleic acid copolymers. The formation of sLBMs was triggered by a transient reduction of the electrostatic repulsion between the polymer cushions and the lipid vesicles by lowering the solution's pH to 4. Upon formation, the stability of the sLBMs was not affected by subsequent variations of the environmental pH. The degree of hydrophilicity and swelling of the anionic polymer cushions was found to determine both the kinetics of the membrane formation and the mobility of the lipid bilayer with lipid diffusion coefficients in the range from 0.26 to 2.6 Mm2S-1. The introduced polymer cushion system is concluded to provide a versatile base for the integration of active transmembrane proteins in sLBMs.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)6373-6378
Seitenumfang6
FachzeitschriftJournal of Physical Chemistry B
Jahrgang112
Ausgabenummer20
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 22 Mai 2008
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Externe IDs

PubMed 18426235
ORCID /0000-0003-0189-3448/work/162347725