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NMR of bicelles: orientation and mosaic spread of the liquid-crystal director under sample rotation

Zandomeneghi, Giorgia ; Tomaselli, Marco ; Williamson, Philip ; Meier, Beat

In: Journal of Biomolecular NMR, 2003, vol. 25, no. 2, p. 113-123

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    Titre
    • NMR of bicelles: orientation and mosaic spread of the liquid-crystal director under sample rotation
    Auteur
    • Zandomeneghi, Giorgia. Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Tomaselli, Marco. Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Williamson, Philip. Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Meier, Beat. Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich, ETH-Hönggerberg, CH-8093, Zurich, Switzerland
    Type de document
    • Postprint
    Langue
    • Anglais
    Publié dans
    • Journal of Biomolecular NMR, 2003, vol. 25, no. 2, p. 113-123. Kluwer Academic Publishers
    Autre version électronique
    Identifiant OAI-PMH
    • oai:doc.rero.ch:320963
    Summary
    Model-membrane systems composed of liquid-crystalline bicellar phases can be uniaxially oriented with respect to a magnetic field, thereby facilitating structural and dynamics studies of membrane-associated proteins. Here we quantitatively characterize a method that allows the manipulation of the direction of this uniaxial orientation. Bicelles formed from DMPC/DHPC are examined by 31P NMR under variable-angle sample-spinning (VAS) conditions, confirming that the orientation of the liquid-crystalline director can be influenced by sample spinning. The director is perpendicular to the rotation axis when Θ (the angle between the sample-spinning axis and the magnetic field direction) is smaller than the magic angle, and is parallel to the rotation axis when Θ is larger than the magic angle. The new 31P NMR VAS data presented are considerably more sensitive to the orientation of the bicelle than earlier 2H studies and the analysis of the sideband pattern allows the determination of the orientation of the liquid-crystal director and its variation over the sample, i.e., the mosaic spread. Under VAS, the mosaic spread is small if Θ deviates significantly from the magic angle but becomes very large at the magic angle