Monolayer and differential scanning calorimetry studies have been performed on synthetic, stereochemically uniform glyceroglucolipids having saturated, ether-linked alkyl chains. The limiting area, A0 = 40 A2 X molecule-1, resulting from the monolayer measurements of the glucolipids is comparable to the A0 value found for phosphatidylethanolamine lipids. The area corresponds to twice the value observed with saturated straight chain fatty acids, which indicates that at high surface pressure the space requirement of the glucose head group does not exceed that of the two alkyl chains. The apparent specific heat capacities of the glucolipid dispersions have been found to be higher than those of corresponding phospholipids. They can be approximated from group parameters with the additional assumption that the experimental partial molar heat capacity of glucose is valid for the glucose head groups of the lipids. The transition enthalpies of the C16 and C18 glyceroglucolipids are clearly larger than the delta H values of corresponding phospholipids, while the C14 glyceroglucolipid has the same transition enthalpy as dimyristoylphosphatidylethanolamine or ditetradecylphosphatidylethanolamine. Glucolipids exhibit gel to liquid-crystalline phase transition temperatures which are only slightly lower than those of their phosphatidylethanolamine analogues, although they are uncharged molecules. Like phosphatidylethanolamine the glucolipids do not show a pretransition; however, with the C14 glucolipid a highly cooperative posttransition, approximately 5 deg above the main transition, has been found. Calorimetric experiments with a C14 glucolipid, in which the hydroxyl protons of the glucose moiety have been exchanged by deuterium, suggest that the posttransition might reflect structural changes of the head group.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
Six variants of the ROP protein, designed with the aim to analyze by X-ray crystallography loop formation and core packing interactions in 4-alpha-helical bundles, have been purified and a search of their crystallization conditions has been carried out. Five mutants yield crystals that are suitable for medium to high resolution X-ray diffraction studies. For all mutants crystal size, sensitivity to X-irradiation and diffraction limit are correlated to their stability as determined by differential scanning calorimetry, in a manner which is not yet understood in detail.
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