Biophysical Journal 2010-05-05

Phase Separations in Binary and Ternary Cholesterol-Phospholipid Mixtures

Arun Radhakrishnan

Index: Biophys. J. 98(9) , L41-3, (2010)

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Abstract

A pair of recent studies has reopened debate on the subject of phase separations in model bilayer mixtures of cholesterol (Chol) and dipalmitoyl-phosphatidylcholine (DPPC). Fluorescence microscopy methods have not been able to detect phase separations in binary DPPC-Chol mixtures that have been inferred from NMR studies. However, micron-scale phase-separated liquid domains are observed by fluorescence in ternary mixtures of DPPC, Chol, and diphytanoyl-phosphatidylcholine (DiPhyPC). Here, a model of condensed complexes of Chol and DPPC is used to account for these results. In particular, it is shown that the orientation of tie-lines in ternary mixtures of DiPhyPC/DPPC/Chol is compatible with phase separation in binary DPPC/Chol mixtures.

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