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Title: Carbon nanotube porin diffusion in mixed composition supported lipid bilayers

Abstract

Carbon nanotube porins (CNTPs), short pieces of carbon nanotubes capable of self-inserting into a lipid bilayer, represent a simplified model of biological membrane channels. We have used high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) and all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study the behavior of CNTPs in a mixed lipid membrane consisting of DOPC lipid with a variable percentage of DMPC lipid added to it. HS-AFM data reveal that the CNTPs undergo diffusive motion in the bilayer plane. Motion trajectories extracted from the HS-AFM movies indicate that CNTPs exhibit diffusion coefficient values broadly similar to values reported for membrane proteins in supported lipid bilayers. The data also indicate that increasing the percentage of DMPC leads to a marked slowing of CNTP diffusion. MD simulations reveal a CNTP-lipid assembly that diffuses in the membrane and show trends that are consistent with the experimental observations.

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Research Org.:
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Molecular Foundry
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1638906
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1642362
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL-800281
Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322; 11908; PII: 68059
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC52-07NA27344; SCW1607; AC02-05CH11231; 1626262
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Scientific Reports Journal Volume: 10 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; Biophysics; Nanoscale biophysics

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Sullivan, Kylee, Zhang, Yuliang, Lopez, Joseph, Lowe, Mary, and Noy, Aleksandr. Carbon nanotube porin diffusion in mixed composition supported lipid bilayers. United Kingdom: N. p., 2020. Web. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-68059-2.
Sullivan, Kylee, Zhang, Yuliang, Lopez, Joseph, Lowe, Mary, & Noy, Aleksandr. Carbon nanotube porin diffusion in mixed composition supported lipid bilayers. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68059-2
Sullivan, Kylee, Zhang, Yuliang, Lopez, Joseph, Lowe, Mary, and Noy, Aleksandr. Fri . "Carbon nanotube porin diffusion in mixed composition supported lipid bilayers". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68059-2.
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abstractNote = {Carbon nanotube porins (CNTPs), short pieces of carbon nanotubes capable of self-inserting into a lipid bilayer, represent a simplified model of biological membrane channels. We have used high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) and all-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study the behavior of CNTPs in a mixed lipid membrane consisting of DOPC lipid with a variable percentage of DMPC lipid added to it. HS-AFM data reveal that the CNTPs undergo diffusive motion in the bilayer plane. Motion trajectories extracted from the HS-AFM movies indicate that CNTPs exhibit diffusion coefficient values broadly similar to values reported for membrane proteins in supported lipid bilayers. The data also indicate that increasing the percentage of DMPC leads to a marked slowing of CNTP diffusion. MD simulations reveal a CNTP-lipid assembly that diffuses in the membrane and show trends that are consistent with the experimental observations.},
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year = {Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
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