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  • Title: Ripple phases induced by alpha-tocopherol in saturated diacylphosphatidylcholines.
    Author: Wang X, Semmler K, Richter W, Quinn PJ.
    Journal: Arch Biochem Biophys; 2000 May 15; 377(2):304-14. PubMed ID: 10845708.
    Abstract:
    The effect of alpha-tocopherol on the structure and phase behavior of dilauroyl-, dimyristoyl-, dipalmitoyl-, and distearoyl-phosphatidylcholines was examined using X-ray diffraction and freeze-fracture electron microscopic methods. A ripple phase was observed in all of the mixtures at temperatures well below the pretransition temperature of the corresponding pure phospholipid. Freeze-fracture studies indicated that with proportion of alpha-tocopherol less than 5 mol% a ripple phase with large periodicity (50-150 nm) predominated and with about 10 mol% alpha-tocopherol a ripple phase of periodicity about 16 nm was formed. With more than 10 mol% alpha-tocopherol planar bilayers tended to be formed. Partial phase diagrams of mixed aqueous dispersions of saturated phosphatidylcholines and alpha-tocopherol over temperature ranges about the gel to liquid-crystal phase boundary have been constructed. Alpha-tocopherol-enriched domains form ripple phases that coexist with regions of lamellar gel phase of the pure phospholipid in mixtures containing less than 10 mol% alpha-tocopherol. The presence of increasing amounts of alpha-tocopherol in the phospholipid causes an increase in the proportion of ripple phase at the expense of pure phospholipid bilayer indicating that the alpha-tocopherol-enriched domains might possess a defined stoichiometry of the two constituents.
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