Monovalent ions and water dipoles in contact with dipolar zwitterionic lipid headgroups-theory and MD simulations

Velikonja, Aljaž (avtor), Perutková, Šárka (avtor), Gongadze, Ekaterina (avtor), Kramar, Peter (avtor), Polak, Andraž (avtor), Maček Lebar, Alenka (avtor), Iglič, Aleš (avtor)

The lipid bilayer is a basic building block of biological membranes and can be pictured as a barrier separating two compartments filled with electrolyte solution. Artificial planar lipid bilayers are therefore commonly used as model systems to study the physical and electrical properties of the cell membranes in contact with electrolyte solution. Among them the glycerol-based polar phospholipids which have dipolar, but electrically neutral head groups, are most frequently used in formation of artificial lipid bilayers. In this work the electrical properties of the lipid layer composed of zwitterionic lipids with non-zero dipole moments are studied theoretically. In the model, the zwitterionic lipid bilayer is assumed to be in contact with aqueous solution of monovalent salt ions. The orientational ordering of water, resulting in spatial variation of permittivity, is explicitly taken into account. It is shown that due to saturation effect in orientational ordering of water dipoles the relative permittivity in the zwitterionic headgroup region is decreased, while the corresponding electric potential becomes strongly negative. Some of the predictions of the presented mean-field theoretical consideration are critically evaluated using the results of molecular dynamics (MD) simulation.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: ions, dipoles, lipids, dipolar zwitterionic headgroups, relative permittivity, orientational ordering, water molecules, planar lipid bilayers
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.01 - Izvirni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FE - Fakulteta za elektrotehniko; MF - Medicinska fakulteta
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2013
• Št. strani: Str. 2846-2861
• Številčenje: Vol. 14, iss. 2
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-129502
• UDK: 577.115
• ISSN pri članku: 1422-0067
• DOI: 10.3390/ijms14022846
• COBISS.SI-ID: 9628500
• Datum objave v RUL: 02.09.2021

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: International journal of molecular sciences
• Skrajšan naslov: Int. j. mol. sci.
• Založnik: MDPI
• ISSN: 1422-0067
• COBISS.SI-ID: 2779162

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• Licenca: CC BY 3.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 3.0 Nedoločena
• Povezava: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.sl
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• Začetek licenciranja: 01.02.2013

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: ioni, dipoli, lipidi