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  • Title: Subzero temperature study of the inner mitochondrial membrane and related phospholipid membrane systems with the fluorescent probe, trans-parinaric acid.
    Author: Waring AJ, Glatz P, Vanderkooi JM.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1979 Nov 02; 557(2):391-8. PubMed ID: 497190.
    Abstract:
    The fluorescence intensity of trans-parinaric acid as a function of the temperature indicates a phase transition in bovine heart mitochondrial inner membranes below 0 degrees C. The comparison of the dye fluorescence intensity in intact inner mitochondrial membranes and in vesicles from extracted phospho lipids of mitochondria revealed a similar intensity increase with decreasing temperature. A synthetic phospholipid system of dioleoyl phosphatidylcholine was investigated because of its low phase transition temperature and showed a very definite intensity change at -25 degrees C. trans-Parinaric acid in membrane systems probes an environment of intermediate polarity; this was found from the excitation and emission spectra and from fluorescence decay.
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