The use of fluoresceinphosphatidylethanolamine (FPE) as a real-time probe for peptide-membrane interactions
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Informa UK Limited in Molecular Membrane Biology
- Vol. 12 (2), 183-192
- https://doi.org/10.3109/09687689509027506
Abstract
The characterization of fluorescelnphosphatidylethanolamlne (FPE) as a real-time Indicator of the electrostatic nature of a membrane surface is described. The conditions appropriate for the labelling of membranes and the implementation of FPE as a tool to monitor the interactions of various peptides with model membranes are outlined. It is shown that of the membrane-active peptides studied, Naja naja kaouthla cardiotoxin and pyrularia thionin bind to certain model membranes without insertion. Whereas the leader sequence of the nuclear encoded subunit IV of mammalian cytochrome c oxidase (E.C. 1.9.3.1), known as p-25, and melittin appear to bind and then partially insert into the membrane. It seems evident also that melittin does not adopt a fully transmembrane configuration. Melittin is known to promote membrane lysis and by employing a rapid-kinetic technique it is shown that the time-course of such lysis does not appear to correlate with peptide binding, but following binding a significant proportion of melittin must become inserted into the membrane before lysis appears to commence.Keywords
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