In this study, a lipid membrane was fabricated by fusing cardiolipin-phosphatidylcholine(CL_PC, 1:4) vesicles onto a hydrophobic surface of 1-dodecanethiol(DT) preadsorbed on a nanostructured gold film. By changi...In this study, a lipid membrane was fabricated by fusing cardiolipin-phosphatidylcholine(CL_PC, 1:4) vesicles onto a hydrophobic surface of 1-dodecanethiol(DT) preadsorbed on a nanostructured gold film. By changing the concentration of the DT adsorption solution, we constructed a series of CL PC-DT bilayers with different hydrophobicity to study the effects of lipid membrane characteristics on the adsorption conformation of cytochrome c(Cyt c). Electrochemical analysis showed that the formal potential is 0.24 V for Cyt c-CL_PC-DT(10), 0.2 V for Cyt c-CL_PC-DT(20), and 0.16 V for Cyt c-CL_PC-DT(40) — a gradual positive shift with the decreasing DT concentration — relative to the potential of native cyt c(0.02 V). Potential-induced surface-enhanced infrared adsorption difference spectroscopy revealed that the gradual positive shift of the formal potential of CL-bound cyt c is determined by the environment with the gradually lowered dielectric constant for the heme cofactor in CL-bound cyt c(Fe^3+).展开更多
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.9122711421322510+4 种基金and 21105097)the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation(Grant No.2013M530998)the Natural Science Foundation of Jilin ProvinceChina(Grant No.201215092)the President Funds of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
文摘In this study, a lipid membrane was fabricated by fusing cardiolipin-phosphatidylcholine(CL_PC, 1:4) vesicles onto a hydrophobic surface of 1-dodecanethiol(DT) preadsorbed on a nanostructured gold film. By changing the concentration of the DT adsorption solution, we constructed a series of CL PC-DT bilayers with different hydrophobicity to study the effects of lipid membrane characteristics on the adsorption conformation of cytochrome c(Cyt c). Electrochemical analysis showed that the formal potential is 0.24 V for Cyt c-CL_PC-DT(10), 0.2 V for Cyt c-CL_PC-DT(20), and 0.16 V for Cyt c-CL_PC-DT(40) — a gradual positive shift with the decreasing DT concentration — relative to the potential of native cyt c(0.02 V). Potential-induced surface-enhanced infrared adsorption difference spectroscopy revealed that the gradual positive shift of the formal potential of CL-bound cyt c is determined by the environment with the gradually lowered dielectric constant for the heme cofactor in CL-bound cyt c(Fe^3+).