Tilt angle of lipid acyl chains in unilamellar vesicles determined by ellipsometric light scattering |
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Authors: | A. Erbe R. Sigel |
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Affiliation: | (1) Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Wissenschaftspark Golm, Am Mühlenberg 1, 14476 Golm, Germany |
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Abstract: | Ellipsometric light scattering (ELS) at room temperature is applied to unilamellar vesicles (~50 nm radius) of 1,2-Dipalmitoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DPPC) in the gel phase and of 1,2-Dioleoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (DOPC) in the liquid-crystaline phase. A high sensitivity of this technique to the local anisotropy is found. From the resulting local birefringence, a lower limit of (29 ±0.5)○ for the average tilt angle of the lipid chains of DPPC with respect to the membrane normal is estimated. This tilt angle value is slightly lower than literature values for the tilt angle in oriented lipid multi-bilayers on solid substrates. |
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Keywords: | 87.16.Dg Membranes, bilayers, and vesicles 42.68.Mj Scattering, polarization 42.81.Gs Birefringence, polarization 87.14.Cc Lipids |
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