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Conventional oxazolidine spin-labelled lipids have the axial14N-hyperfine tensorz-axis directed along the long axis of the lipid chain. Investigation of lateral ordering of the lipids in membranes requires measurement of thex-y Zeeman anisotropy of the nonaxialg-tensor at high fields. Both the lateral and transverse ordering of the lipid chains in membranes of dimyristoyl phosphatidylcholine containing 40 mol% cholesterol in the liquid-ordered phase have been studied with 94 GHz electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. This has been done by using probe amounts of phosphatidylcholine systematically spin-labelled at positionsn along the length of thesn- 2 chain [n-PCSL, 1-acyl-2-(n-(4,4-dimethyloxazolidine-N-oxyl) stearoyl)-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine]. Nonaxial (gxx−gyy) anisotropy of the spin-labelled lipid chains is detected over a wide range of temperature throughout the liquid-ordered phase. The transverse profile of lateral ordering with position,n, of chain labelling follows the profile of the rigid steroid nucleus of cholesterol. It becomes progressively averaged towards the terminal methyl group of thesn- 2 chain, in the region of the flexible hydrocarbon chain of cholesterol. The nonaxial lipid ordering may be related to lipid domain formation in membranes containing cholesterol and saturated-chain lipids.
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Kurad, D., Jeschke, G. & Marsh, D. Spin-label HF-EPR of lipid ordering in cholesterol-containing membranes. Appl. Magn. Reson. 21, 469–481 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03162421
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