X-ray diffraction study of the polymorphic behavior of N-methylated dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine.

The polymorphic phase behavior of aqueous dispersions of dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine (DOPE) and its N-methylated analogues, DOPE-Me, DOPE-Me2, and DOPC, has been investigated by X-ray diffraction. In the fully hydrated lamellar (L alpha) phase at 2 degrees C, the major structural difference is a large increase in the interlamellar water width from DOPE to DOPE-Me, with minor increases with successive methylation. Consistent with earlier reports, inverted hexagonal (HII) phases are observed upon heating at 5-10 degrees C in DOPE and at 65-75 degrees C in DOPE-Me and are not observed to at least 85 degrees C in DOPE-Me2 or DOPC. In DOPE, the L alpha-HII transition is facile and is characterized by a relatively narrow temperature range of coexistence of L alpha and HII domains, each with long-range order. DOPE-Me exhibits complex nonequilibrium behavior below the occurrence of the HII phase: Upon heating, the L alpha lattice spontaneously disorders on a time scale of days; on cooling from the HII phase, the disorder rises on a time scale of minutes. It is shown that, in copious water, the disordered state transforms very slowly into phases with cubic symmetry. This process is assisted by the generation of small amounts of lipid degradation products. The relative magnitudes of the monolayer spontaneous radius of curvature, R0 [Kirk, G. L., Gruner, S. M., & Stein, D. L. (1984) Biochemistry 23, 1093; Gruner, S. M. (1985) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 82, 3665], are inferred from the HII lattice spacings vs temperature and are shown to increase with increasing methylation. The relative magnitudes of R0 are categorized as small for DOPE, intermediate for DOPE-Me, and large for DOPC. It is suggested, and examples are used to illustrate, that small R0 lipid systems exhibit facile, low-temperature L alpha-HII transitions, intermediate R0 systems exhibit complex nonequilibrium transition behavior and are likely to form cubic phases, and large R0 systems are stable as L alpha phases. The relationship between the cubic phases and minimal periodic surfaces is discussed. It is suggested that minimal periodic surfaces represent geometries in which near constant, intermediate R0 values can be obtained concomitantly with monolayers of near constant thickness, thereby leading to equilibrium cubic phases. Thus, the relative magnitude of the spontaneous radius of curvature may be used to predict mesomorphic behavior.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

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