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The mechanism of collapse of heterogeneous lipid monolayers. Biophys J 2015; 107:1136-1145. [PMID: 25185549 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2014.05.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/21/2014] [Revised: 04/27/2014] [Accepted: 05/23/2014] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Collapse of homogeneous lipid monolayers is known to proceed via wrinkling/buckling, followed by folding into bilayers in water. For heterogeneous monolayers with phase coexistence, the mechanism of collapse remains unclear. Here, we investigated collapse of lipid monolayers with coexisting liquid-liquid and liquid-solid domains using molecular dynamics simulations. The MARTINI coarse-grained model was employed to simulate monolayers of ∼80 nm in lateral dimension for 10-25 μs. The monolayer minimum surface tension decreased in the presence of solid domains, especially if they percolated. Liquid-ordered domains facilitated monolayer collapse due to the spontaneous curvature induced at a high cholesterol concentration. Upon collapse, bilayer folds formed in the liquid (disordered) phase; curved domains shifted the nucleation sites toward the phase boundary. The liquid (disordered) phase was preferentially transferred into bilayers, in agreement with the squeeze-out hypothesis. As a result, the composition and phase distribution were altered in the monolayer in equilibrium with bilayers compared to a flat monolayer at the same surface tension. The composition and phase behavior of the bilayers depended on the degree of monolayer compression. The monolayer-bilayer connection region was enriched in unsaturated lipids. Percolation of solid domains slowed down monolayer collapse by several orders of magnitude. These results are important for understanding the mechanism of two-to-three-dimensional transformations in heterogeneous thin films and the role of lateral organization in biological membranes. The study is directly relevant for the function of lung surfactant, and can explain the role of nanodomains in its surface activity and inhibition by an increased cholesterol concentration.
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Gewinner J, Fischer TM. Heterogeneous nucleation of giant bubbles from a Langmuir monolayer in a laser focus. J Phys Chem B 2013; 117:14749-53. [PMID: 24199988 DOI: 10.1021/jp407291a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Evidence is shown that spherical structures of methyloctadecaoate nucleated from a Langmuir monolayer in a laser focus are giant multilamellar bubbles. The bubbles remain stable in the laser focus but respread to the monolayer outside of the focus. Bubbles coalesce when brought into contact. The coalescence is accompanied by a volume increase and area decrease of the fused bubble as compared to the original pair of bubbles. Bubbles deviate from spherical and are compressed along the flow direction of the surrounding monolayer when they are advected versus and trapped at phase boundaries of the monolayer.
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- Jürgen Gewinner
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Bayreuth , 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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Ramos S, Garza C, Beltran HI, Campos-Terán J, Arenas-Alatorre J, Castillo R. The cis-bis(decanoate)tin phthalocyanine/DPPC film at the air/water interface. J Colloid Interface Sci 2012; 369:256-66. [PMID: 22197054 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2011.11.072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2011] [Revised: 11/25/2011] [Accepted: 11/26/2011] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Films made of cis-bis-decanoate-tin(IV) phthalocyanine (PcSn10) and racemic dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) are studied with compression isotherms and Brewster angle microscopy (BAM) at the air/water interface. Films enriched in PcSn10 present phase separation elliptical-shaped domains. These domains present optical anisotropy and molecular order. They are enriched in PcSn10, and the film outside these domains is enriched in DPPC, as shown in by high-angle annular dark-field transmission electron microscopy on Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) transferred films. Film collapse area and atomic force microscopy images of LB transferred films on mica indicate that the films are actually multilayers. A computational survey was performed to determine how the PcSn10 molecules prefer to self-assemble, in films basically made of PcSn10. The relative energetic stability for several dimeric assemblies was obtained, and a crystal model of the film was developed through packing and repeating the PcSn10 molecules, along the crystallographic directions of the unit cell. Our results contribute to understanding the strong interaction between PcSn10 and DPPC at the air/water interface, where even small quantities of DPPC (~1-2%) can modify the film in an important way.
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- Salvador Ramos
- Instituto de Física, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico, Mexico DF, Mexico
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Aliaskarisohi S, Fischer TM, Wilke N. Dilatational Yielding of Solid Langmuir Monolayers. J Phys Chem B 2011; 115:11631-7. [DOI: 10.1021/jp207173j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- S. Aliaskarisohi
- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
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- Centro de Investigaciones en Química Biológica de Córdoba (CIQUIBIC−CONICET), Departamento de Química Biológica, Facultad de Ciencias Químicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba X5000HUA, Argentina
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Lipid monolayers at an air-water interface can be compressed laterally and reach high surface density. Beyond a certain threshold, they become unstable and collapse. Lipid monolayer collapse plays an important role in the regulation of surface tension at the air-liquid interface in the lungs. Although the structures of lipid aggregates formed upon collapse can be characterized experimentally, the mechanism leading to these structures is not fully understood. We investigate the molecular mechanism of monolayer collapse using molecular dynamics simulations. Upon lateral compression, the collapse begins with buckling of the monolayer, followed by folding of the buckle into a bilayer in the water phase. Folding leads to an increase in the monolayer surface tension, which reaches the equilibrium spreading value. Immediately after their formation, the bilayer folds have a flat semielliptical shape, in agreement with theoretical predictions. The folds undergo further transformation and form either flat circular bilayers or vesicles. The transformation pathway depends on macroscopic parameters of the system: the bending modulus, the line tension at the monolayer-bilayer connection, and the line tension at the bilayer perimeter. These parameters are determined by the system composition and temperature. Coexistence of the monolayer with lipid aggregates is favorable at lower tensions of the monolayer-bilayer connection. Transformation into a vesicle reduces the energy of the fold perimeter and is facilitated for softer bilayers, e.g., those with a higher content of unsaturated lipids, or at higher temperatures.
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- Ka Yee C. Lee
- Department of Chemistry, Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637;
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Hermann RP, Grandjean F, Chen TC, Brown DE, Johnson CE, Snyder GJ, Long GJ. Antimony-121 Mössbauer Spectral Study of α-Zn4Sb3. Inorg Chem 2007; 46:767-70. [PMID: 17257018 DOI: 10.1021/ic061533x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The Mössbauer spectra of alpha-Zn4Sb3, a compound that is best formulated as alpha-Zn13Sb10 or (Zn2+)13(Sb3-)6(Sb24-)2, have been measured between 5 and 120 K. The resulting six spectra have been simultaneously fit with two components in the ratio of 3:2 corresponding to the Sb3- and Sb2- ions identified in this valence semiconductor. The fits yield temperature independent isomer shifts of -8.17(2) and -9.73(2) mm/s and quadrupole interactions of -4.9(2) and 0 mm/s for the Sb3- and Sb2- ions, respectively; the corresponding Mössbauer temperatures are 197(5) and 207(5) K, temperatures that are lower than the Debye temperature of beta-Zn4Sb3. The isomer shifts correspond to electronic configurations between 5s25p6 and 5s1.755p4.01 for the Sb3- ions and between 5s25p5 and 5s1.805p3.38 for the Sb2- ions, configurations that are in good agreement with the expected configurations for this valence semiconductor and with the results of band structure calculations.
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- Raphaël P Hermann
- Department of Physics, B5, University of Liège, B-4000 Sart-Tilman, Belgium
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Gopal A, Lee KYC. Headgroup Percolation and Collapse of Condensed Langmuir Monolayers. J Phys Chem B 2006; 110:22079-87. [PMID: 17078643 DOI: 10.1021/jp061562t] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We present a study of Langmuir isotherms and 2D bulk moduli of binary lipid mixtures, where changes in monolayer collapse pressure (Pic) are followed while varying the relative amounts of the two components. For monolayers containing dipalmitoylphosphocholine (DPPC) with either hexadecanol (HD) or palmitic acid (PA), a distinctly non-monotonic change in Pic is observed with varying composition. At low mole fractions, there is a slight decrease in Pic as films get richer in DPPC, while a sharp increase to pure DPPC-like values is observed when the mole fraction exceeds approximately 0.7. The sudden transition in collapse pressure is explained using the principles of rigidity percolation, and important ramifications of this phenomenon for biological surfactant are discussed.
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- Ajaykumar Gopal
- Department of Chemistry, the Institute for Biophysical Dynamics, and the James Franck Institute, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Muruganathan R, Fischer TM. Laser-Induced Local Collapse in a Langmuir Monolayer. J Phys Chem B 2005; 110:22160-5. [PMID: 17078652 DOI: 10.1021/jp0506991] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Heating of a two-dimensional, methyloctadecanoate, Langmuir monolayer with a focused laser induces the local collapse of the monolayer. We observe the growth of a three-dimensional collapse aggregate that is fed by an inward flow of the two-dimensional monolayer surroundings. The experiments are explained with a hydrodynamic model describing the dynamics of the local collapse. From this theory we predict that local collapse can be induced if the collapse pressure of the monolayer decreases faster with temperature than with the surface tension of the pure air/water interface. Such conditions are fulfilled for lung surfactants, and it should therefore be possible to perform time-resolved local studies of the collapse of lung surfactants at those temperatures.
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- Rm Muruganathan
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4390, USA
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Mixed monolayers of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) and dipalmitoyl-phosphatidylserine are compressed beyond their collapse pressure. Primary and secondary folds that grow perpendicular to the compression direction are observed using Brewster angle microscopy. The secondary fold velocity is measured with a fast charge-coupled device camera. We observe a reduction in secondary fold speed when increasing the mole fraction of the softer DPPC component in the monolayer. The fracture kinetics follows theoretical predictions for the fold coarsening dynamics of uniaxially stressed three-dimensional systems.
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- Yi Zhang
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306, USA
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Barlic A, Gutiérrez-Aguirre I, Caaveiro JMM, Cruz A, Ruiz-Argüello MB, Pérez-Gil J, González-Mañas JM. Lipid Phase Coexistence Favors Membrane Insertion of Equinatoxin-II, a Pore-forming Toxin from Actinia equina. J Biol Chem 2004; 279:34209-16. [PMID: 15175339 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m313817200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Equinatoxin-II is a eukaryotic pore-forming toxin belonging to the family of actinoporins. Its interaction with model membranes is largely modulated by the presence of sphingomyelin. We have used large unilamellar vesicles and lipid monolayers to gain further information about this interaction. The coexistence of gel and liquid-crystal lipid phases in sphingomyelin/phosphatidylcholine mixtures and the coexistence of liquid-ordered and liquid-disordered lipid phases in phosphatidylcholine/cholesterol or sphingomyelin/phosphatidylcholine/cholesterol mixtures favor membrane insertion of equinatoxin-II. Phosphatidylcholine vesicles are not permeabilized by equinatoxin-II. However, the localized accumulation of phospholipase C-generated diacylglycerol creates conditions for toxin activity. By using epifluorescence microscopy of transferred monolayers, it seems that lipid packing defects arising at the interfaces between coexisting lipid phases may function as preferential binding sites for the toxin. The possible implications of such a mechanism in the assembly of a toroidal pore are discussed.
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- Ariana Barlic
- Unidad de Biofísica (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) and Departamento de Bioquímica y Biología Molecular, Universidad del País Vasco, Apdo. 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
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Xicohtencatl-Cortes J, Mas-Oliva J, Castillo R. Phase Transitions of Phospholipid Monolayers Penetrated by Apolipoproteins. J Phys Chem B 2004. [DOI: 10.1021/jp0369443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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- J. Xicohtencatl-Cortes
- Instituto de Fisiología Celular, UNAM, Apdo. Postal 70-243, México D. F. 04510, and Instituto de Física, UNAM, Apdo. Postal 20-364, México D. F. 01000
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- Instituto de Fisiología Celular, UNAM, Apdo. Postal 70-243, México D. F. 04510, and Instituto de Física, UNAM, Apdo. Postal 20-364, México D. F. 01000
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- Instituto de Fisiología Celular, UNAM, Apdo. Postal 70-243, México D. F. 04510, and Instituto de Física, UNAM, Apdo. Postal 20-364, México D. F. 01000
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Brown DE, Johnson CE, Grandjean F, Hermann RP, Kauzlarich SM, Holm AP, Long GJ. Determination of the Antimony Valence State in Eu10Mn6Sb13. Inorg Chem 2004; 43:1229-34. [PMID: 14966956 DOI: 10.1021/ic035172m] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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The antimony-121 Mössbauer spectra of Eu10Mn6Sb13 have been measured between 2 and 295 K. Although the Zintl formalism indicates that the nine crystallographically distinct antimony sites in Eu10Mn6Sb13 should have formal valence states of -2, -1, 0, and +1, the Mössbauer spectral isomer shifts reveal that the valence states of the different sites are all quite similar and correspond to an average electronic configuration for antimony of 5s(1.7)5p(4.0). This configuration corresponds to an excess of negative charge on the antimony of 0.7 or an average valence of -0.7, a valence which is rather consistent with the average antimony valence of -0.61 obtained from the Zintl formalism for the nine antimony sites in Eu10Mn6Sb13. The spectra obtained between 90 and 295 K are more consistent with the absence rather than the presence of any transferred magnetic hyperfine field at the antimony. In contrast, the spectra obtained at 2 and 5 K reveal the presence of an average transferred magnetic hyperfine field of ca. 8 T, a field that arises from the ferromagnetic ordering of the near-neighbor manganese(II) ions.
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- Dennis E Brown
- Department of Physics, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, Illinois 60115, USA
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Schief WR, Antia M, Discher BM, Hall SB, Vogel V. Liquid-crystalline collapse of pulmonary surfactant monolayers. Biophys J 2003; 84:3792-806. [PMID: 12770885 PMCID: PMC1302961 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(03)75107-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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During exhalation, the surfactant film of lipids and proteins that coats the alveoli in the lung is compressed to high surface pressures, and can remain metastable for prolonged periods at pressures approaching 70 mN/m. Monolayers of calf lung surfactant extract (CLSE), however, collapse in vitro, during an initial compression at approximately 45 mN/m. To gain information on the source of this discrepancy, we investigated how monolayers of CLSE collapse from the interface. Observations with fluorescence, Brewster angle, and light scattering microscopies show that monolayers containing CLSE, CLSE-cholesterol (20%), or binary mixtures of dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine(DPPC)-dihydrocholesterol all form bilayer disks that reside above the monolayer. Upon compression and expansion, lipids flow continuously from the monolayer into the disks, and vice versa. In several respects, the mode of collapse resembles the behavior of other amphiphiles that form smectic liquid-crystal phases. These findings suggest that components of surfactent films must collapse collectively rather than being squeezed out individually.
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- William R. Schief
- Departments of Bioengineering and Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195; and Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239
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- Departments of Bioengineering and Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195; and Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239
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- Departments of Bioengineering and Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195; and Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239
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- Departments of Bioengineering and Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195; and Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239
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- Departments of Bioengineering and Physics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195; and Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Medicine, and Physiology and Pharmacology, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon 97239
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Galvan-Miyoshi J, Ramos S, Ruiz-Garcia J, Castillo R. Localized oscillations and Fraunhofer diffraction in crystalline phases of a monolayer. J Chem Phys 2001. [DOI: 10.1063/1.1409401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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Piknova B, Schief WR, Vogel V, Discher BM, Hall SB. Discrepancy between phase behavior of lung surfactant phospholipids and the classical model of surfactant function. Biophys J 2001; 81:2172-80. [PMID: 11566788 PMCID: PMC1301689 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(01)75865-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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The studies reported here used fluorescence microscopy and Brewster angle microscopy to test the classical model of how pulmonary surfactant forms films that are metastable at high surface pressures in the lungs. The model predicts that the functional film is liquid-condensed (LC) and greatly enriched in dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (DPPC). Both microscopic methods show that, in monolayers containing the complete set of phospholipids from calf surfactant, an expanded phase persists in coexistence with condensed domains at surface pressures approaching 70 mN/m. Constituents collapsed from the interface above 45 mN/m, but the relative area of the two phases changed little, and the LC phase never occupied more than 30% of the interface. Calculations based on these findings and on isotherms obtained on the continuous interface of a captive bubble estimated that collapse of other constituents increased the mol fraction of DPPC to no higher than 0.37. We conclude that monolayers containing the complete set of phospholipids achieve high surface pressures without forming a homogeneous LC film and with a mixed composition that falls far short of the nearly pure DPPC predicted previously. These findings contradict the classical model.
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- B Piknova
- Department of Medicine, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon 97201, USA
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Diamant H, Witten TA, Ege C, Gopal A, Lee KY. Topography and instability of monolayers near domain boundaries. PHYSICAL REVIEW E 2001; 63:061602. [PMID: 11415114 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.63.061602] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2001] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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We theoretically study the topography of a biphasic surfactant monolayer in the vicinity of domain boundaries. The differing elastic properties of the two phases generally lead to a nonflat topography of "mesas," where domains of one phase are elevated with respect to the other phase. The mesas are steep but low, having heights of up to 10 nm. As the monolayer is laterally compressed, the mesas develop overhangs and eventually become unstable at a surface tension of about K(deltac(0))(2) (deltac(0) being the difference in spontaneous curvature and K a bending modulus). In addition, the boundary is found to undergo a topography-induced rippling instability upon compression, if its line tension is smaller than about Kdeltac(0). The effect of diffuse boundaries on these features and the topographic behavior near a critical point are also examined. We discuss the relevance of our findings to several experimental observations related to surfactant monolayers: (i) small topographic features recently found near domain boundaries; (ii) folding behavior observed in mixed phospholipid monolayers and model lung surfactants; (iii) roughening of domain boundaries seen under lateral compression; (iv) the absence of biphasic structures in tensionless surfactant films.
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- H Diamant
- James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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