The Mechanism and Kinetics of Lipid Flip-Flop in Floating Phosphatidylcholine Bilayers

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In order to maintain their asymmetric lipid distribution, cellular membranes have a number of means to translocate lipid molecules across the bilayer. On top of the well-studied active flipping processes carried out by the flippases & floppases, there are also passive transfer mechanisms which facilitate the lipid migration even in protein-free bilayers. This process, acting against the protein transport systems, is considered to be the significant natural process that cells must overcome in order to sustain 'normal' cell asymmetry. Despite this, the mechanism by which this occurs in a protein independent manner is poorly understood and warrants investigation leveraging our work with ISIS developing improved membrane models and deposition techniques. By selectively deuterating the bilayer we will be able to observe the rate of lipid exchange, significantly improving our understanding.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24080025
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24080025
Provenance
Creator Dr Stephen Roser; Dr Rob Barker; Dr Arwel Hughes
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2013
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2010-03-11T19:40:06Z
Temporal Coverage End 2010-03-15T09:18:32Z