The channel-forming peptide melittin was incorporated into a biomimetic membrane consisting of a mercury electrode coated with a thiolipid monolayer, with a lipid monolayer self-assembled on top of it. The thiolipid consisted of a hydrophilic tetraethyleneoxy chain terminated at one end with a disulfide group, for anchoring to the mercury surface, and covalently linked at the other end to two diphytanyl chains, which formed a lipid bilayer with the overhanging lipid monolayer. The conductance of the lipid bilayer in contact with aqueous 0.1 M KCl was measured by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy over a frequency range from 1 x 10(-2) to 1 x 10(5) Hz and a potential range of 0.7 V for different compositions of the outer lipid monolayer. The conductance increases abruptly above the background level at sufficiently negative applied potentials, attaining a maximum value that increases with the composition of the outer monolayer in the order PC/chol (60:40) < PC < PC/SM/chol (59: 15: 26) < PS, with PC = phosphatidylcholine, chol = cholesterol, SM = sphingomyelin, and PS = phosphatidylserine. The higher the maximum conductance, the less negative the applied potential at which it is attained. This behavior is also discussed using a model of the electrified interphase.

Electrochemical investigation of melittin reconstituted into a mercury-supported lipid bilayer / Lucia Becucci; Reyes Romero Leon; Maria Rosa Moncelli; Paolo Rovero; Rolando Guidelli. - In: LANGMUIR. - ISSN 0743-7463. - STAMPA. - 22:(2006), pp. 6644-6650. [10.1021/la060681x]

Electrochemical investigation of melittin reconstituted into a mercury-supported lipid bilayer

BECUCCI, LUCIA;MONCELLI, MARIA ROSA;ROVERO, PAOLO;GUIDELLI, ROLANDO
2006

Abstract

The channel-forming peptide melittin was incorporated into a biomimetic membrane consisting of a mercury electrode coated with a thiolipid monolayer, with a lipid monolayer self-assembled on top of it. The thiolipid consisted of a hydrophilic tetraethyleneoxy chain terminated at one end with a disulfide group, for anchoring to the mercury surface, and covalently linked at the other end to two diphytanyl chains, which formed a lipid bilayer with the overhanging lipid monolayer. The conductance of the lipid bilayer in contact with aqueous 0.1 M KCl was measured by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy over a frequency range from 1 x 10(-2) to 1 x 10(5) Hz and a potential range of 0.7 V for different compositions of the outer lipid monolayer. The conductance increases abruptly above the background level at sufficiently negative applied potentials, attaining a maximum value that increases with the composition of the outer monolayer in the order PC/chol (60:40) < PC < PC/SM/chol (59: 15: 26) < PS, with PC = phosphatidylcholine, chol = cholesterol, SM = sphingomyelin, and PS = phosphatidylserine. The higher the maximum conductance, the less negative the applied potential at which it is attained. This behavior is also discussed using a model of the electrified interphase.
2006
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6644
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Lucia Becucci; Reyes Romero Leon; Maria Rosa Moncelli; Paolo Rovero; Rolando Guidelli
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