Lipids attenuated total reflection spectroscopy

Infrared attenuated total reflection spectroscopy (IR-ATR). This method [10] can be used to study lipid bilayer membranes and peptides associated with them in the dry and in the hydrated states [11, 12]. Position and shape of the IR bands allow the detection of peptide secondary structures their orientation with respect to the lipid molecules can be determined with polarized radiation. Adsorption from and escape into the aqueous surroundings, penetration through the membranes, and exchange can easily be studied. 

Aspartic peptidases, 365 Atmospheric pressure chemical ionization (APCI), used with LC/MS ATR-FTIR. see Attenuated total reflection Attenuated total reflection Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), trans fatty acids, 505-511 Autoxidation. see also Oxidation discussed, 535 of lipids, 558, 627 prevention of, 558... 

There is substantial history regarding the application of conventional vibrational spectroscopy methods to study the intact surface of skin, the extracted stratum corneum and the ceramide-cholesterol-fatty acid mixtures that constitute the primary lipid components of the barrier. The complexity of the barrier and the multiple phases formed by the interactions of the barrier components have begun to reveal the role of each of these substances in barrier structure and stability. The use of bulk phase IR to monitor lipid phase behavior and protein secondary structures in the epidermis, as well as in stratum corneum models, is also well established 24-28 In addition, in vivo and ex vivo attenuated total reflectance (ATR) techniques have examined the outer layers of skin to probe hydration levels, drug delivery and percutaneous absorption at a macroscopic level.29-32 Both mid-IR and near-IR spectroscopy have been used to differentiate pathological skin samples.33,34 The above studies, and many others too numerous to mention, lend confidence to the fact that the extension to IR imaging will produce useful results. 

Takeuchi, Y. et al. Effects of fatty acids, fatty amines and propylene glycol on rat stratum comeum lipids and proteins in vitro measured by fourier transform inffared/attenuated total reflection (FT-IR/ATR) spectroscopy. Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin 40(7) 1887-1892, 1992. 

Protein-lipid interactions and particularly peptide-lipid interactions have been studied in supported bilayers by attenuated total reflection (ATR) FTIR spectroscopy. A slightly dated, but still valid comprehensive review on this method applied to supported bilayers has been published (20). Because IR light probes the vibrational properties of different classes of covalent bonds, this method is useful to examine lipids, peptides, and interactions between the two in the same sample. The most common parameter for assessing lipid structure and order is to study the stretching vibrations of the lipid acyl chains, for example as a function of peptide concentration or temperature. Such studies have lead to the conclusion that fusion peptides from viruses increase the lipid chain order of fluid phase bilayers and that... 

The only piece of experimental evidence for the orientation of apoA-I helices on DMPC discoidal complexes has come from the use of polarized attenuated total reflection infrared (ATR-IR) spectroscopy (Brasseur et al. (1990 Wald et al., 1990). Although internal reflection spectroscopy is not new (Harrick, 1967), its combination with polarized IR measurements of oriented biological membranes is a more recent application, which allows the spectrum to be taken in the presence of water. The technique has been used most frequently to study the orientation of lipid functional groups relative to the membrane plane in pure lipid bilayers (Fringeli and Gunthard, 1981 Holmgre et al., 1987 Okamura et al., 1990 Hubner and Mantsch, 1991), but has also been applied to studies of... 

Planar supported lipid membranes were first prepared and studied as simplified structural models of cell membranes [4,6, 32], and more recently as biocompatible coatings for sensor transducers and other synthetic materials [33-37], A major advantage of the planar geometry relative to vesicles, and a major contributor to the expansion of this field, is the availability of powerful surface-sensitive analyti-cal/physical techniques. Confining a lipid membrane to the near-surface region of a solid substrate makes it possible to study its structural and functional properties in detail using a variety of techniques such as surface plasmon resonance, AFM, TIRF, attenuated total reflection, and sum frequency vibrational spectroscopy [38 -2]. 

Specialized techniques such as attenuated total reflection, polarized IR spectroscopy, etc. are also described by Amey and Chapman (1983). Another technique, which is potentially useful for lipid studies, is the combination of gas chromatography (GC) with Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, so that the column effluents are analysed by an on-line spectrometer. GC/FT-IR is discussed in detail by Erikson (1979). 

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