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Insights into the Formation of Intermolecular Complexes of Fluorescent Probe 10-N-Nonyl Acridine Orange with Cardiolipin and Phosphatidylglycerol in Bacterial Plasma Membrane by Molecular Modeling
In this article, we used molecular dynamics (MD), one of the most common methods for simulations of membranes, to study the interaction of fluorescent membranotropic biological probe 10-N-nonyl acridine orange (NAO) with the bilayer, mimicking a plasma membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. Fluorescent...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9961436/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36838917 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules28041929 |
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author | Kholina, Ekaterina Kovalenko, Ilya Rubin, Andrew Strakhovskaya, Marina |
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description | In this article, we used molecular dynamics (MD), one of the most common methods for simulations of membranes, to study the interaction of fluorescent membranotropic biological probe 10-N-nonyl acridine orange (NAO) with the bilayer, mimicking a plasma membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. Fluorescent probes serve as an effective tool to study the localization of different components in biological membranes. Revealing the molecular details of their interaction with membrane phospholipids is important both for the interpretation of experimental results and future design of lipid-specific stains. By means of coarse-grained (CG) MD, we studied the interactions of NAO with a model membrane, imitating the plasma membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. In our simulations, we detected different NAO forms: monomers, dimers, and stacks. NAO dimers had the central cardiolipin (CL) molecule in a sandwich-like structure. The stacks were formed by NAO molecules interlayered with anionic lipids, predominantly CL. Use of the CG approach allowed to confirm the ability of NAO to bind to both major negatively charged phospholipids, phosphatidylglycerol (PG) and CL, and to shed light on the exact structure of previously proposed NAO–lipid complexes. Thus, CG modeling can be useful for the development of new effective and highly specific molecular probes. |
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spelling | pubmed-99614362023-02-26 Insights into the Formation of Intermolecular Complexes of Fluorescent Probe 10-N-Nonyl Acridine Orange with Cardiolipin and Phosphatidylglycerol in Bacterial Plasma Membrane by Molecular Modeling Kholina, Ekaterina Kovalenko, Ilya Rubin, Andrew Strakhovskaya, Marina Molecules Article In this article, we used molecular dynamics (MD), one of the most common methods for simulations of membranes, to study the interaction of fluorescent membranotropic biological probe 10-N-nonyl acridine orange (NAO) with the bilayer, mimicking a plasma membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. Fluorescent probes serve as an effective tool to study the localization of different components in biological membranes. Revealing the molecular details of their interaction with membrane phospholipids is important both for the interpretation of experimental results and future design of lipid-specific stains. By means of coarse-grained (CG) MD, we studied the interactions of NAO with a model membrane, imitating the plasma membrane of Gram-negative bacteria. In our simulations, we detected different NAO forms: monomers, dimers, and stacks. NAO dimers had the central cardiolipin (CL) molecule in a sandwich-like structure. The stacks were formed by NAO molecules interlayered with anionic lipids, predominantly CL. Use of the CG approach allowed to confirm the ability of NAO to bind to both major negatively charged phospholipids, phosphatidylglycerol (PG) and CL, and to shed light on the exact structure of previously proposed NAO–lipid complexes. Thus, CG modeling can be useful for the development of new effective and highly specific molecular probes. MDPI 2023-02-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9961436/ /pubmed/36838917 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules28041929 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Kholina, Ekaterina Kovalenko, Ilya Rubin, Andrew Strakhovskaya, Marina Insights into the Formation of Intermolecular Complexes of Fluorescent Probe 10-N-Nonyl Acridine Orange with Cardiolipin and Phosphatidylglycerol in Bacterial Plasma Membrane by Molecular Modeling |
title | Insights into the Formation of Intermolecular Complexes of Fluorescent Probe 10-N-Nonyl Acridine Orange with Cardiolipin and Phosphatidylglycerol in Bacterial Plasma Membrane by Molecular Modeling |
title_full | Insights into the Formation of Intermolecular Complexes of Fluorescent Probe 10-N-Nonyl Acridine Orange with Cardiolipin and Phosphatidylglycerol in Bacterial Plasma Membrane by Molecular Modeling |
title_fullStr | Insights into the Formation of Intermolecular Complexes of Fluorescent Probe 10-N-Nonyl Acridine Orange with Cardiolipin and Phosphatidylglycerol in Bacterial Plasma Membrane by Molecular Modeling |
title_full_unstemmed | Insights into the Formation of Intermolecular Complexes of Fluorescent Probe 10-N-Nonyl Acridine Orange with Cardiolipin and Phosphatidylglycerol in Bacterial Plasma Membrane by Molecular Modeling |
title_short | Insights into the Formation of Intermolecular Complexes of Fluorescent Probe 10-N-Nonyl Acridine Orange with Cardiolipin and Phosphatidylglycerol in Bacterial Plasma Membrane by Molecular Modeling |
title_sort | insights into the formation of intermolecular complexes of fluorescent probe 10-n-nonyl acridine orange with cardiolipin and phosphatidylglycerol in bacterial plasma membrane by molecular modeling |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9961436/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36838917 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/molecules28041929 |
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