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  • Title: Dipolar relaxation in a lipid bilayer detected by a fluorescent probe, 4''-dimethylaminochalcone.
    Author: Svetlichny VY, Merola F, Dobretsov GE, Gularyan SK, Syrejshchikova TI.
    Journal: Chem Phys Lipids; 2007 Jan; 145(1):13-26. PubMed ID: 17125758.
    Abstract:
    The dynamic behavior of polar molecules in egg phosphatidylcholine (PC) bilayers has been studied using a membrane fluorescent probe, 4''-dimethylaminochalcone (DMAC). Time and spectrally resolved fluorescence spectroscopy of DMAC incorporated in PC liposomes, as compared to studies of the probe in organic solvents, shows the existence of two independent populations, associated with different extent and speed of dipolar solvent relaxation. The first DMAC population represents approximately 69% of the fluorescence-emitting molecules, has a short fluorescence decay time (0.32 ns) and undergoes Stokes shift of 80 nm. The remaining 31% fraction of DMAC molecules has a decay time of 0.74 ns and undergoes a high (106 nm) Stokes shift. A fraction of the shift, ca. 24 nm for the first and 46 nm for the second population, is attributed to the fast (<0.1 ns) rotational relaxation of nearby dipolar molecules, which might be water. This two-state model accounts well for the detailed fluorescence properties of DMAC in egg PC, i.e. its broadened steady-state spectrum, its average fluorescence quantum yield and its complex wavelength-dependent fluorescence decays.
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