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Cholesterol in phospholipid bilayers: positions and orientations inside membranes with different unsaturation degrees
Stockholms universitet, Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för material- och miljökemi (MMK).ORCID-id: 0000-0001-7371-8644
Stockholms universitet, Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten, Institutionen för material- och miljökemi (MMK).ORCID-id: 0000-0002-9390-5719
2019 (Engelska)Ingår i: Soft Matter, ISSN 1744-683X, E-ISSN 1744-6848, Vol. 15, nr 1, s. 78-93Artikel i tidskrift (Refereegranskat) Published
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Cholesterol is an essential component of all animal cell membranes and plays an important role in maintaining the membrane structure and physical–chemical properties necessary for correct cell functioning. The presence of cholesterol is believed to be responsible for domain formation (lipid rafts) due to different interactions of cholesterol with saturated and unsaturated lipids. In order to get detailed atomistic insight into the behaviour of cholesterol in bilayers composed of lipids with varying degrees of unsaturation, we have carried out a series of molecular dynamics simulations of saturated and polyunsaturated lipid bilayers with different contents of cholesterol, as well as well-tempered metadynamics simulations with a single cholesterol molecule in these bilayers. From these simulations we have determined distributions of cholesterol across the bilayer, its orientational properties, free energy profiles, and specific interactions of molecular groups able to form hydrogen bonds. Both molecular dynamics and metadynamics simulations showed that the most unsaturated bilayer with 22:6 fatty acid chains shows behaviour which is most different from other lipids. In this bilayer, cholesterol is relatively often found in a “flipped” configuration with the hydroxyl group oriented towards the membrane middle plane. This bilayer has also the highest (least negative) binding free energy among liquid phase bilayers, and the lowest reorientation barrier. Furthermore, cholesterol molecules in this bilayer are often found to form head-to-tail contacts which may lead to specific clustering behaviour. Overall, our simulations support ideas that there can be a subtle interconnection between the contents of highly unsaturated fatty acids and cholesterol, deficiency or excess of each of them is related to many human afflictions and diseases.

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2019. Vol. 15, nr 1, s. 78-93
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-165616DOI: 10.1039/C8SM01937AISI: 000454838800007OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-165616DiVA, id: diva2:1285190
Tillgänglig från: 2019-02-03 Skapad: 2019-02-03 Senast uppdaterad: 2022-02-26Bibliografiskt granskad
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1. Modeling of biomembranes: from computational toxicology to simulations of neurodegenerative diseases
Öppna denna publikation i ny flik eller fönster >>Modeling of biomembranes: from computational toxicology to simulations of neurodegenerative diseases
2019 (Engelska)Doktorsavhandling, sammanläggning (Övrigt vetenskapligt)
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It was known from the middle of the last century that a cell-membrane is a lipid bilayer. Since that time a large number of experimental studies has been done in order to see how a certain molecule can penetrate through a membrane. Due to the complexity of laboratory experiments computational chemistry became a convenient tool for investigations involving this process. In a real life a compound has to pass through several membranes of different chemical composition before reaching the actual target. Such a diversity in constitution gives a various selectivity to cell-membranes: some molecules will penetrate through them and others will not. That is why the development and a choice of suitable models for lipid bilayers are important steps in such a research. In this thesis new all-atomistic models for polyunsaturated phospholipids in cis conformations have been derived and added to the SLipids force field. After a successful force field validation, the new lipid models were used in molecular dynamics and well-tempered metadynamics simulations of several problems, such as toxicity of hydroxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers (OH-PBDE), behavior of cholesterol in various membranes, an aggregation of amyloid-β (Aβ) peptides. The significance of the presence of lipid unsaturation has been demonstrated by all computations. 2’-OH-BDE68 (ortho) showed the affinity to saturated lipid bilayer, but had more conformational variations in the center of the unsaturated membrane. Cholesterol did not exhibit the preference to polynsaturated lipid bilayers from free energy calculations, but the diversity in orientations of this molecule, depending on its locations was observed. The behavior of Aβ peptides was dependent on membrane saturation as well. The insertion of Aβ peptides was detected in lipid bilayers containing higher amounts of polyunsaturated phospholipids, while in systems with more saturated membranes amyloids aggregated on membrane surfaces. Moreover, a comparison of simulations for quadro- and mono-component lipid bilayers showed that the membrane built of 18:0-22:6 PC can serve as a good model for the ’healthy’ tissue of a human brain. Also the lipid bilayer built of 14:0-14:0 PC exhibited similar features as the quadro-lipid membrane representing the brain tissue affected by Alzheimer’s disease. Good agreement of some computational results with available experimental findings demonstrated the applicability of computer simulations to real life problems.

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Stockholm: Department of Materials and Environmental Chemistry, Stockholm University, 2019. s. 90
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biomembranes, lipid bilayers, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson disease, computational toxicology, passive diffusion, hydroxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers, omega-3, omega-6, amyloid beta peptide, molecular dynamics simulations, SLipids force field
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urn:nbn:se:su:diva-165940 (URN)978-91-7797-584-7 (ISBN)978-91-7797-585-4 (ISBN)
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2019-03-27, Magnélisalen Kemiska övningslaboratoriet, Svante Arrhenius väg 16 B, Stockholm, 14:00 (Engelska)
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At the time of the doctoral defense, the following papers were unpublished and had a status as follows: Paper 4: Submitted. Paper 5: Submitted.

Tillgänglig från: 2019-03-04 Skapad: 2019-02-08 Senast uppdaterad: 2022-02-26Bibliografiskt granskad

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