A Small-Angle Neutron Scattering, Calorimetry and Densitometry Study to Detect Phase Boundaries and Nanoscale Domain Structure in a Binary Lipid Mixture

Author:

Krzyzanowski Natalie1ORCID,Porcar Lionel2,Perez-Salas Ursula1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL 60608, USA

2. Large Scale Structures Group, Institut Laue-Langevin, CEDEX 9, 38042 Grenoble, France

Abstract

Techniques that can probe nanometer length scales, such as small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), have become increasingly popular to detect phase separation in membranes. But to extract the phase composition and domain structure from the SANS traces, complementary information is needed. Here, we present a SANS, calorimetry and densitometry study of a mixture of two saturated lipids that exhibits solidus–liquidus phase coexistence: 1,2-dipalmitoyl-d62-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (dDPPC, tail-deuterated DPPC) and 1,2-dilauroyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DLPC). With calorimetry, we investigated the phase diagram for this system and found that the boundary traces for both multilamellar vesicles (MLVs) as well as 50 nm unilamellar vesicles overlap. Because the solidus boundary was mostly inaccessible by calorimetry, we investigated it by both SANS and molecular volume measurements for a 1:1 dDPPC:DLPC lipid mixture. From the temperature behavior of the molecular volume for the 1:1 dDPPC:DLPC mixture, as well as the individual molecular volume of each lipid species, we inferred that the liquidus phase consists of only fluid-state lipids while the solidus phase consists of lipids that are in gel-like states. Using this solidus–liquidus phase model, the SANS data were analyzed with an unrestricted shape model analysis software: MONSA. The resulting fits show irregular domains with dendrite-like features as those previously observed on giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs). The surface pair correlation function describes a characteristic domain size for the minority phase that decreases with temperature, a behavior found to be consistent with a concomitant decrease in membrane mismatch between the liquidus and solidus phases.

Funder

NSF

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Filtration and Separation,Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous),Process Chemistry and Technology

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