Fluorescence Decay of Pyrene in Small and Large Unilamellar L, Alpha-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine Vesicles Above and Below the Phase Transition Temperature

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Journal Eur Biophys J

Specialty Biophysics

Date 1985 Jan 1

PMID 3839455

Citations 6

Authors

D Daems

M van den Zegel

N Boens

F C De Schryver

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Abstract

The fluorescence decays of pyrene in small and large unilamellar L, alpha-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles have been investigated as a function of probe concentration and temperature. When the molar ratio of pyrene to phospholipid equals 1:3000, no excimer emission is observed and the fluorescence decays are mono-exponential. When this ratio is equal to or higher than 1:120, excimer formation is observed. Above the phase transition temperature the observed fluorescence decays of monomer and excimer can be adequately described by a bi-exponential function. The monomer decays can be equally well fitted to a decay law which takes into account a time-dependence in the probe diffusion rate constant. The fluorescence decay kinetics are compatible with the excimer formation scheme which is valid in an isotropic medium. The excimer lifetime and the (apparent) rate constant of excimer formation have been determined as a function of probe concentration at different temperatures above the phase transition temperature. The activation energy of excimer formation is found to be 29.4 +/- 1.3 kJ/mol. In small unilamellar vesicles the diffusion constant associated with the pyrene excimer formation process varies from 8.0 X 10(-7) cm2/s at 40 degrees C to 2.2 X 10(-6) cm2/s at 70 degrees C. Below the phase transition temperature the monomer decays can be described by a decay law which takes into account a time dependence of the rate constant of excimer formation. The lateral diffusion coefficient of pyrene calculated from the decay fitting parameters of the monomer region varies from 4.0 X 10(-9) cm2/s at 20 degrees C to 7.9 X 10(-8) cm2/s at 35 degrees C. No significant difference could be observed between the pyrene fluorescence decay kinetics in small and large unilamellar vesicles.

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