The interaction of cytochrome c (cyt c) with natural and synthetic membranes is known to be a complex phenomenon, involving both protein and lipid conformational changes. In this paper, we combined infrared and fluorescence spectroscopy to study the structural transformation occurring to the lipid network of cardiolipin-containing large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs). The data, collected at increasing protein/lipid ratio, demonstrate the existence of a multi-phase process, which is characterized by: (i) the interaction of cyt c with the lipid polar heads; (ii) the lipid anchorage of the protein on the membrane surface; and (iii) a long-distance order/disorder transition of the cardiolipin acyl chains. Such effects have been quantitatively interpreted introducing specific order parameters and discussed in the frame of the models on cyt c activity reported in literature.

The puzzling problem of cardiolipin membrane-cytochrome c interactions: A combined infrared and fluorescence study / Ripanti, F.; Di Venere, A.; Cestelli Guidi, M.; Romani, M.; Filabozzi, A.; Carbonaro, M.; Piro, M. C.; Sinibaldi, F.; Nucara, A.; Mei, G.. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES. - ISSN 1661-6596. - 22:3(2021), pp. 1-15. [10.3390/ijms22031334]

The puzzling problem of cardiolipin membrane-cytochrome c interactions: A combined infrared and fluorescence study

Ripanti F.;Nucara A.
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2021

Abstract

The interaction of cytochrome c (cyt c) with natural and synthetic membranes is known to be a complex phenomenon, involving both protein and lipid conformational changes. In this paper, we combined infrared and fluorescence spectroscopy to study the structural transformation occurring to the lipid network of cardiolipin-containing large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs). The data, collected at increasing protein/lipid ratio, demonstrate the existence of a multi-phase process, which is characterized by: (i) the interaction of cyt c with the lipid polar heads; (ii) the lipid anchorage of the protein on the membrane surface; and (iii) a long-distance order/disorder transition of the cardiolipin acyl chains. Such effects have been quantitatively interpreted introducing specific order parameters and discussed in the frame of the models on cyt c activity reported in literature.
2021
Cardiolipin; Cytochrome c; Membrane disorder; Protein-membrane binding; Animals; Cardiolipins; Cell Membrane; Cytochromes c; Horses; Spectrometry, Fluorescence; Spectrophotometry, Infrared; Unilamellar Liposomes
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The puzzling problem of cardiolipin membrane-cytochrome c interactions: A combined infrared and fluorescence study / Ripanti, F.; Di Venere, A.; Cestelli Guidi, M.; Romani, M.; Filabozzi, A.; Carbonaro, M.; Piro, M. C.; Sinibaldi, F.; Nucara, A.; Mei, G.. - In: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES. - ISSN 1661-6596. - 22:3(2021), pp. 1-15. [10.3390/ijms22031334]
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