Off-resonance unenhanced total internal reflection (TIR) Raman Spectroscopy was explored to investigate supported single lipid bilayers with incorporated membrane peptides/proteins at water/solid interface. A model membrane was formed on a planar supported lipid layer (pslb) by the fusion of the reconstituted small unilamellar vesicles (SUVs), and the intensity of bilayer was confirmed by a comparison of Raman spectral intensity in the C-H stretching modes with C<sub>16</sub>TAB. With prominent Raman sensitivity attained, we studied the 2-D phase transition of DMPC and DPPC pslbs and the temperature-dependent polarised spectra revealed a broad transition range of ca. 10 °C commencing at the calorimetric phase transition temperature. We applied polarised TIR-Raman Spectroscopy to pslbs formed by DMPC SUVs reconstituted with a model membrane-spanning peptide gramicidin D. A preferential channel structure formed by dissolution of trifluoroethanol could be probed by polarised Raman Spectroscopy qualitatively showing an antiparallel β-sheet conformation (different from "standard" one) and our Raman spectra by correlation with NMR and CD data confirmed single-stranded π<sup>6.3</sup> β-helical channel structure in the single bilayer. We also studied the membrane-penetrating peptide indolicidin in the presence of DMPC pslb over the chain melting temperature and a β-turn structure was dominantly observed concomitant with membrane perturbation. Dynamic adsorption of DPPC to form pslb from a micellar solution of n-dodecyl-β- <sub>D</sub>-maltoside could be examined with high sensitivity of every 1-min acquisition. Finally we used polarised TIR-Raman scattering to porcine pancreatic phospholipase A<sub>2</sub> hydrolytic activity on DPPC pslbs and revealed lipid-active conformation different from that of the enzyme alone.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:426390 |
| Date | January 2005 |
| Creators | Lee, Chongsoo |
| Contributors | Bain, Colin |
| Publisher | University of Oxford |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Source | http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:76f4be6e-b7d3-46c5-a2a1-3dcc7a399410 |
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