Filipin Fluorescence Quenching by Spin-labeled Probes: Studies in Aqueous Solution and in a Membrane Model System

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Journal Biophys J

Publisher Cell Press

Specialty Biophysics

Date 1995 Jul 1

PMID 7669893

Citations 11

Authors

M Castanho

M Prieto

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Abstract

A detailed photophysical study of the fluorescence quenching (transient and steady state) of the macrolide antibiotic filipin by nitroxide-substituted fatty acids and a cholesterol derivative was carried out, aimed at determining its transverse position in a model system of membranes (multilamellar vesicles of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine). Filipin partitions efficiently into membranes (Kp = (5.0 +/- 1.0).10(3), 20 degrees C) and it was concluded that the antibiotic is buried in the membrane, away from the lipid-water interface. In addition, information on the organization of the quenchers was also obtained. The 5-nitroxide derivative of the fatty acid is essentially randomly distributed, while the 16-nitroxide is aggregated at concentrations higher than approximately 5% molar. For the cholesterol compound the results point to a phase separation at concentrations higher than 3% molar (below this limit concentration filipin associates with the derivatized sterol with KA = 20 M-1, assuming a 1:1 interaction). We propose that this phase separation and the aggregation state of filipin in the aqueous solution may be key processes in the antibiotic mode of action. A systematic and general approach to fluorescence quenching data analysis in complex (e.g., biochemical) systems is also presented.

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