Comparison of Line Tension Measurement Methods for Lipid Monolayers at Liquid-Liquid Coexistence
Several methods of measuring the line tension between phase-separated liquid-ordered-liquid -disordered domains in phospholipid-cholesterol systems have been proposed. These experimental techniques are typically internally self-consistent, but the measured line tension values vary widely among these...
| Publié dans: | Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids. - 1985. - 35(2019), 48 vom: 03. Dez., Seite 16053-16061 |
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| Autres auteurs: | , , , |
| Format: | Article en ligne |
| Langue: | English |
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2019
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| Accès à la collection: | Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids |
| Sujets: | Comparative Study Journal Article Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. Cholestanol 8M308U816E Dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine U86ZGC74V5 |
| Résumé: | Several methods of measuring the line tension between phase-separated liquid-ordered-liquid -disordered domains in phospholipid-cholesterol systems have been proposed. These experimental techniques are typically internally self-consistent, but the measured line tension values vary widely among these techniques. To date, no measurement of line tension has utilized multiple experimental techniques to look at the same monolayer system. Here we compare two nonperturbative methods, Fourier analysis of boundary fluctuations (BA) and one proposed by Israelachvili involving the analysis of domain size distributions (SD), to extract the line tension in a 70 mol % DMPC/30 mol % dihydrocholesterol (DChol) mixture as a function of surface pressure. We show that BA predicts the expected variation in line tension measurements consistent with the theoretical critical exponent whereas SD does not. From this comparison, we conclude that the size distribution of monolayer domains is metastable and primarily determined by the kinetics of domain nucleation and subsequent aging |
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| Description: | Date Completed 09.09.2020 Date Revised 07.12.2020 published: Print-Electronic Citation Status MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1520-5827 |
| DOI: | 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b01696 |