Bile salt-phospholipid aggregation at submicellar concentrations |
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Authors: | Baskin Rebekah Frost Laura D |
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Institution: | aDepartment of Chemistry, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA 30460, United States |
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Abstract: | The aggregation behavior of the bile salts taurodeoxycholate (NaTDC) and sodium cholate (NaC), are followed at concentrations below critical micelle concentrations (CMCs) using the environment sensitive, fluorescent-labeled phospholipid, 2-(6-(7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-yl)amino)hexanoyl-1-hexadecanoyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine (NBD-C6-HPC). A buffer solution containing NBD-C6-HPC is titrated with increasing NaC or NaTDC and the fluorescence changes followed. Both bile salts induced fluorescence changes below their critical micelle concentration indicating the presence of a bile salt–phospholipid aggregate. A critical control experiment using 6-(N-(7-nitrobenz-2-oxa-1,3-diazol-4-yl)amino) hexanoic acid (NBD-X) shows that the bile salts are interacting with the longer, C16 hydrocarbon tail, not the NBD probe. The fluorescence curves were fitted to the Hill equation as a model for cooperative aggregation. The cooperativity model provides a minimum estimate for the number of bile salts to give maximal fluorescence. This number was calculated for NaC and NaTDC to have a minimum value of 2. A small aggregation number supports the existence of primary micellar aggregates at submicellar concentrations for bile salt–phospholipid aqueous solutions. |
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Keywords: | Critical micelle concentration Sodium cholate Taurodeoxycholate Fluorescent phospholipid Aggregation number |
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