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The hydration of model membranes based on ceramide 6 with a mixture of free fatty acids most commonly encountered in the native lipid matrix of stratum corneum, the outermost layer of the mammalian skin, has been studied by neutron diffraction. Membrane hydration with water vapor at a temperature of 25°C is characterized by a small increase in the repeat distance Δd 0 = 1.0 Å, which is comparable with membrane swelling in the presence of excess water. The kinetics of changes in the repeat distance, connected with an increase of the water layer between bilayers during hydration, and water exchange during the processes of hydration and H-D isotopic substitution, consists of a fast initial and a subsequent slow stage and is well described by exponentials with two characteristic times lying in the range from a few tens of minutes to several hundreds of minutes. During hydration at a temperature of 57°C, the repeat distance increases by Δd 0 = 1.6 Å, after which the membrane irreversibly separates into two phases. One of the phases is formed mainly by long-chain free fatty acids and is characterized by a large decrease in the repeat distance Δd ph = 8.3 Å on dehydration. The investigation of the structure of model membranes in the temperature range 20–72°C indicated that the system with 20% (w) of cholesterol in the range of 63–67°C undergoes a structural phase transition caused by the melting of hydrocarbon chains of lipids. In the system with a smaller content of cholesterol, no phase transition was observed up to a temperature of 72°C.
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Original Russian Text © N.Yu. Ryabova, M.A. Kiselev, A.M. Balagurov, 2009, published in Biofizika, 2009, Vol. 54, No. 5, pp. 852–862.
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Ryabova, N.Y., Kiselev, M.A. & Balagurov, A.M. Transition processes in stratum corneum model lipid membranes with a mixture of free fatty acids. BIOPHYSICS 54, 598–606 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S000635090905008X
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