An extensive simulation study of lipid bilayer properties with different head groups, acyl chain lengths, and chain saturations

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Previous MD simulations of six phosphocholine (PC) lipid bilayers demonstrated the accuracy of the CHARMM36 force field (C36FF) for PC bilayer simulation at varied temperatures (BBA-Biomembranes, 1838 (2014): 2520-2529). In this work, we further examine the accuracy of C36FF over a wide temperature range for a broader range of lipid types such as various head groups (phosphatidic acid (PA), PC, phosphoethanolamine (PE), phosphoglycerol (PG), and phosphoserine (PS)), and tails (saturated, mono-, mixed- and poly-unsaturated acyl chains with varied chain lengths). The structural properties (surface area per lipid (SA/lip), overall bilayer thickness, hydrophobic thickness, headgroup-to-headgroup thickness, deuterium order parameter (SCD), and spin-lattice relaxation time (T1)) obtained from simulations agree well with nearly all available experimental data. Our analyses indicate that PS lipids have the most inter-lipid hydrogen bonds, while PG lipids have the most intra-lipid hydrogen bonds, which play the main role in their low SA/lip in PS lipids and low thicknesses in PG lipids, respectively. PS, PE, and PA lipids have the largest contact clusters with on average 5-8 lipids per cluster, while PC and PG have clusters of 4 lipids based on a cutoff distance of 6.5Å. PS lipids have much slower lipid wobble (i.e., higher correlation time) than other head groups at a given temperature as the hydrogen bonded network significantly reduces a lipid's mobility, and the rate of lipid wobble increases dramatically as temperature increases. These in-depth analyses facilitate further understanding of lipid bilayers at the atomic level.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Erschienen:

2016

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:1858

Enthalten in:

Biochimica et biophysica acta - 1858(2016), 12 vom: 19. Dez., Seite 3093-3104

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhuang, Xiaohong [VerfasserIn]
Dávila-Contreras, Eder M [VerfasserIn]
Beaven, Andrew H [VerfasserIn]
Im, Wonpil [VerfasserIn]
Klauda, Jeffery B [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

AR09D82C7G
Deuterium
Force field accuracy
Glycerophospholipids
Journal Article
Lipid Bilayers
Lipid wobble
Molecular dynamics
Phosphatidylethanolamines
Phosphatidylserines
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Structural property

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Date Completed 26.10.2017

Date Revised 29.04.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.bbamem.2016.09.016

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM26465885X