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Lipids II
Andy Howard
Introductory Biochemistry, Fall 2009
01 October 2009
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Plans for Today
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Lipids
Membranes
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Glycerophospholipids
Plasmalogens
Sphingolipids
Isoprenoids
Steroids
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Other lipids
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Fatty acids
Triacylglycerol
Glycerophospholipids
Plasmalogens
Sphingolipids
Isoprenoids
Steroids
Other lipids
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Varieties of head
groups
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Variation on other phosphoester
position
Ethanolamine (R1-4 = H) (—O—
(CH2)2—NH3+)
Serine (R4 = COO-)
(—O—CH2-CH-(COO-)—NH3+)
Methyl, dimethylethanolamine
(—O—(CH2)2—NHm+(CH3)2-m)
Choline (R4=H, R1-3=CH3) (—O—
(CH2)2—N(CH3)3+)
Glucose, glycerol . . .
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Phospholipids aren’t
interchangeable!
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Phosphatidylcholine and
phosphatidylethanolamine are the major
components of eukaryotic membranes
Phosphatidylserine and P-inositol tend to be on
the inner leaflet only, and are more prevalent in
brain tissue than other tissues
Good reference: http://www.lipidlibrary.co.uk/
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Chirality in common lipids
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Fatty acyl chains themselves are
generally achiral
Glycerol C2 is often chiral (unless C1 and
C3 fatty acyl chains are identical)
Phospholipid polar groups are achiral
except for phosphatidylserine and a few
others
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iClicker quiz question 3
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What is the most common fatty acid in
soybean triglycerides?
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(a) Hexadecanoate
(b) Octadecanoate
(c) cis,cis-9,12-octadecadienoate
(d) all cis-5,8,11,14-eicosatetraeneoate
(e) None of the above
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iClicker quiz, question 4
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Which set of fatty acids would you
expect to melt on your breakfast table?
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(a) fatty acids derived from soybeans
(b) fatty acids derived from olives
(c) fatty acids derived from beef fat
(d) fatty acids derived from bacteria
(e) either (c) or (d)
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iClicker quiz question 5
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Suppose we constructed an artificial lipid
bilayer of dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine
(DPPC) and another artificial lipid bilayer
of dioleyl phosphatidylcholine (DOPC).
Which bilayer would be thicker?
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(a) the DPPC bilayer
(b) the DOPC bilayer
(c) neither; they would have the same
thickness
(d) DOPC and DPPC will not produce stable
bilayers
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Plasmalogens
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Ether phospholipids have an ether link to C1 instead
of an ester linking
Plasmalogens are ether phospholipids with C1
linked via cis-vinyl ether linkage.
They constitute the other major category of
phospholipids besides esterified
glycerophospholipids
Ordinary fatty acyl esterification at C2…
platelet activating factor has R2 = CH3
Usually PE or PC at C3 position
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Specific
plasmalogens
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Roles of phospholipids
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Most important is in membranes that
surround and actively isolate cells
and organelles
Other phospholipids are secreted and
are found as extracellular surfactants
(detergents) in places where they’re
needed, e.g. the surface of the lung
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Sphingolipids
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Second-most abundant membrane
lipids in eukaryotes
Absent in most bacteria
Backbone is sphingosine:
unbranched C18 alcohol
More hydrophobic than phospholipids
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Varieties of
sphingolipids
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Ceramides
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Sphingomyelin
Image on
steve.gb.com
sphingosine at glycerol
C3
Fatty acid linked via
amide
at glycerol C2
QuickTime™ and a
TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Sphingomyelins
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C2 and C3 as in
ceramides
C1 has phosphocholine
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Cerebrosides
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Ceramides with one
saccharide unit
attached by glycosidic linkage at
C1 of glycerol
Galactocerebrosides
common in nervous
tissue
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Gangliosides
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Anionic derivs of cerebrosides (NeuNAc)
Provide surface markers for cell recognition
and cell-cell communication
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Isoprenoids
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Huge percentage of non-fatty-acid-based
lipids are built up from isoprene units
Biosynthesis in 5 or 15 carbon building
blocks reflects this
Steroids, vitamins, terpenes
Involved in membrane function, signaling,
feedback mechanisms, structural roles
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Isoprene units: how they’re
employed in real molecules
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Can be linked head-to-tail
… or tail-to-tail (fig. 8.16, G&G)
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Steroids
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Molecules built up from ~30-carbon four-ring
isoprenoid starting structure
Generally highly hydrophobic (1-3 polar
groups in a large hydrocarbon); but can be
derivatized into emulsifying forms
Cholesterol is basis for many of the others,
both conceptually and synthetically
Cholesterol:
Yes, you need
to memorize
this structure!
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Other lipids
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Waxes
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nonpolar esters of long-chain fatty acids
and long-chain monohydroxylic alcohols,
e.g H3C(CH2)nCOO(CH2)mCH3
Waterproof, high-melting-point lipids
Eicosanoids
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QuickTime™ and a
TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
oxygenated derivatives of C20
polyunsaturated fatty acids
Involved in signaling, response to
stressors
Non-membrane isoprenoids:
vitamins, hormones, terpenes
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Image
courtesy
cyberlipid.
org
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Courtesy
Oregon
State Hort.
& Crop
Sci.
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Example
of a wax
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Oleoyl
alcohol
esterified to
stearate
(G&G, fig.
8.15)
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Membranes
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Fundamental biological mechanism for
separating cells and organelles from one
another
Highly selective barriers
Based on phospholipid or sphingolipid
bilayers
Contain many protein molecules too
(50-75% by mass)
Often contain substantial cholesterol too:
cf. modeling studies by H.L. Scott
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Solvent
Bilayers
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Self-assembling
roughly planar
structures
Bilayer lipids
are fully
extended
Aqueous above
and below,
apolar within
Solvent
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Fluid Mosaic Model
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Membrane is dynamic
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Protein and lipids diffuse laterally;
proteins generally slower than lipids
Some components don’t move as
much as the others
Flip-flops much slower than lateral
diffusion
Membranes are asymmetric
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Salmonella
ABC
transporter
MsbA
PDB 3B60
3.7Å
2*64 kDa
QuickTime™ and a
TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
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Newly synthesized components
added to inner leaflet
Slow transitions to upper leaflet
(helped by flippases)
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Fluid Mosaic Model depicted
Courtesy C.Weaver, Menlo School
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Physical properties of
membranes
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Strongly influenced by % saturated fatty
acids: lower saturation means more
fluidity at low temperatures
Cholesterol percentage matters too:
disrupts ordered packing and increases
fluidity (mostly)
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Chemical compositions of
membranes (fig. 9.10, G&G)
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Lipid Rafts
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Cholesterol tends to associate with
sphingolipids because of their long saturated
chains
Typical membrane has blob-like regions rich in
cholesterol & sphingolipids surrounded by
regions that are primarily phospholipids
The mobility of the cholesterol-rich regions leads
to the term lipid raft
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Significance of lipid rafts:
still under discussion
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May play a role as regulators
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Sphingolipid-cholesterol clusters form in the
ER or Golgi and eventually move to the
outer leaflet of the plasma membrane
There they can govern protein-protein &
protein-lipid interactions
Necessary but insufficient for trafficking
May be involved in anaesthetic
functions:
Morrow & Parton (2005), Traffic 6: 725
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Membrane Proteins
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Many proteins associate with membranes
But they do it in several ways
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Integral membrane proteins:
considerable portion of protein is embedded in
membrane
Peripheral membrane proteins:
polar attachments to integral membrane
proteins or polar groups of lipids
Lipid-anchored proteins:
protein is covalently attached via a lipid anchor
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Integral
(Transmembrane)
Proteins
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Drawings courtesy
U.Texas
Span bilayer completely
May have 1 membrane-spanning
segment or several
Often isolated with detergents
7-transmembrane helical proteins
are very typical (e.g.
bacteriorhodopsin)
Beta-barrels with pore down the
center: porins
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Peripheral
Membrane proteins
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Also called extrinsic proteins
Associate with 1 face of
membrane
Associated via H-bonds, salt
bridges to polar components of
bilayer
Easier to disrupt membrane
interaction:
salt treatment or pH
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TIFF (Uncompressed) decompressor
are needed to see this picture.
Chloroflexus
auracyanin
PDB 1QHQ
1.55Å
15.4 kDa
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Lipid-anchored
membrane proteins
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Protein-lipid covalent bond
Often involves amide or ester bond to
phospholipid
Others: cys—S—isoprenoid (prenyl) chain
Glycosyl phosphatidylinositol with glycans
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N- Myristoylation &
S-palmitoylation
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Membrane Transport
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What goes through and what doesn’t?
Nonpolar gases (CO2, O2) diffuse
Hydrophobic molecules and small
uncharged molecules mostly pass
freely
Charged molecules blocked
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Transmembrane Traffic:
Types of Transport (Table 9.3)
Type
Protein Saturable
Carrier w/substr.
Diffusion No
No
ChannelsYes
No
& pores
Passive Yes
Yes
transport
Active
Yes
Yes
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Movement
Rel.to conc.
Down
Down
Energy
Input?
No
No
Down
No
Up
Yes
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Cartoons of transport types
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From accessexcellence.org
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Thermodynamics of
passive and active transport
• If you think of the transport as a chemical
reaction Ain  Aout or Aout  Ain
• It makes sense that the free energy
equation would look like this:
• Gtransport = RTln([Ain]/[Aout])
• More complex with charges;
see eqns. 9.4 through 9.6.
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Example
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Suppose [Aout] = 145 mM, [Ain] = 10 mM,
T = body temp = 310K
Gtransport = RT ln[Ain]/[Aout]
= 8.325 J mol-1K-1 * 310 K * ln(10/145)
= -6.9 kJ mol-1
So the energies involved are moderate
compared to ATP hydrolysis
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