Production of large unilamellar vesicles by a rapid extrusion procedure: characterization of size distribution, trapped volume and ability to maintain a membrane potential.

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作者：

MJ Hope，MB Bally，G Webb，PR Cullis

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摘要：

A technique for the rapid production of large unilamellar vesicles by repeated extrusion under moderate pressures ( lb/ in 2) of multilamellar vesicles through polycarbonate filters (100 nm pore size) is demonstrated. In combination with freeze-thaw protocols where required, this procedure results in unilamellar vesicles with diameters in the range 60–100 nm and with trapped volumes in the region of 1–3 μ1/μmol phospholipid. Advantages of this technique include the absence of organic solvents or detergents, the high lipid concentrations (up to 300 μmol/ml) that can be employed and the high trapping efficiencies (up to 30%) that can be achieved. Further, the procedure for generating these 'LUVET's' (large unilamellar vesicles by extrusion techniques) is rapid ( 10 min preparation time) and can be employed to generate large unilamellar vesicles from a wide variety of lipid species and mixtures. As a particular illustration of the utility of this vesicle preparation, LUVET systems exhibiting a membrane potential (Δψ) in response to a transmembrane Na +/K + gradient (K + inside) have been characterized. By employing the lipophilic cation methyltriphenylphosphonium (MTPP +) it is shown that a K + diffusion potential ( Δψ<-100 mV) forms rapidly in the presence of the K + ionophore valinomycin for soya phosphatidylcholine (soya PC) LUVET's. The values of Δψ obtained correlate well with the K + concentration gradient across the membrane, and it is demonstrated that the decay of Δψ with time depends on the flux of Na + into the vesicles.

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MTPP methyltriphenylphosphonium cation

DOI：

10.1016/0005-2736(85)90521-8

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3246

年份：

1985