Effects of cholesterol on the divalent cation-mediated interactions of vesicles containing amino and choline phospholipids
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Effects of cholesterol on the divalent cation-mediated interactions of vesicles containing amino and choline phospholipids
Abstract
We have used assays of lipid probe mixing, contents mixing and contents leakage to monitor the divalent cation-mediated interactions between lipid vesicles containing phosphatidylserine (PS) as a minority component together with mixtures of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidylcholine (PC) or sphingomyelin, and cholesterol in varying proportions. The initial rates of calcium- and magnesium-induced lipid probe quenching between vesicles, which reflect primarily the rates of vesicle aggregation, are strongly reduced as progressively higher proportions of PC or sphingomyelin are incorporated into PE/PS vesicles. The initial rates of divalent cation-induced contents mixing and contents leakage for PE/PS vesicles are also strongly reduced when choline phospholipids are incorporated into the vesicles in even low molar proportions. Sphingomyelin has a more potent inhibitory effect on these processes than does PC at an equal level in the vesicle membranes. The inclusion of cholesterol in these vesicles, at levels up to 1:2 moles sterol/mole phospholipid, has little effect on the rates of calcium- or magnesium-induced vesicle aggregation. However, cholesterol significantly enhances the initial rates of vesicle contents mixing and contents leakage in the presence of divalent cations when the vesicles contain choline as well as amino phospholipids. This effect is substantial only when the level of cholesterol exceeds the level of choline phospholipids in the vesicles. These results may have significance for the fusion of certain cellular membranes in mammalian cells, whose cytoplasmic faces have lipid compositions very similar to those of the vesicles examined in this study.
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