Dielectric behavior of lipid vesicles: The case of L-alpha-Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles as a function of size and temperature (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Dielectric behavior of lipid vesicles: The case of L-alpha-Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles as a function of size and temperature (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2007-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • Briganti, G; Cametti, C; Castelli, F; Raudino, A (2007)
    Dielectric behavior of lipid vesicles: The case of L-alpha-Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles as a function of size and temperature
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  • Briganti, G; Cametti, C; Castelli, F; Raudino, A (literal)
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  • 7518 (literal)
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  • 7525 (literal)
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  • 23 (literal)
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  • Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento Fis, I-00185 Rome, Italy; Univ Catania, Dipartimento Sci Chim, INFM, CRS,SOFT,Unita Roma 1, I-95125 Catania, Italy (literal)
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  • Dielectric behavior of lipid vesicles: The case of L-alpha-Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine vesicles as a function of size and temperature (literal)
Abstract
  • We present an extensive set of radio wave dielectric relaxation spectroscopy measurements of aqueous suspensions of different size unilamellar L-alpha-dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC) vesicles, in a temperature range between 15 and 55 degrees C, where the lipidic bilayer experiences structural transitions from the gel to the rippled phase (at the pretransition temperature) and from the rippled to the liquid phase (at the main transition temperature). The dielectric spectra have been analyzed in the light of the Cole-Cole relaxation function, and the main dielectric parametersthe dielectric increment Delta epsilon and the mean relaxation frequency omega(0)have been evaluated as a function of temperature. These parameters display a very complex phenomenology, depending on the structural arrangement of the lipid-water interface. The structural parameters that govern the dielectric behavior of these systems associated with the lipid bilayer have been recognized within a recent dynamic mean-field model we have proposed, aimed to predict the dipolar relaxation of an array of strongly interacting dipoles anchored to a flat or corrugated surface. They are the prefactor A(T) of the distance-dependent part of the effective dipolar interaction energy, the term Gamma(vis), that takes into account the damping of the dipolar motion, the average dipolar distance related to the area a(0) per polar head, and the bilayer thickness. The present analysis furnishes, from a phenomenological point of view, the dependence of these parameters on the temperature and on the vesicle size. (literal)
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