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标题：Phase Separation in Lipid Lamellae Result from Ceramide Conformations and Lateral Packing Structure
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作者：Hiroki Ohnari ; Eiji Naru ; Taku Ogura 等
期刊名称：Chemical and Pharmaceutical Bulletin
印刷版ISSN：0009-2363
电子版ISSN：1347-5223
出版年度：2021
卷号：69
期号：1
页码：72-80
DOI：10.1248/cpb.c20-00588
出版社：The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan
摘要：Intercellular lipids in the stratum corneum protect the living body from invasion by allergens and pathogens, and also suppresses water evaporation within the body. It is important to understand how differences in the microstructure of intercellular lipids arise. This microstructure is affected by lipid composition. Studies using intercellular lipid models have reported the formation of two phases with different short lamellar periodicities. However, the details of the packing structure characteristics of the two phases observed in these intercellular lipid models are unclear. Our previous report revealed that different short periodicity phases coexist in the N -(α-hydroxyoctadecanoyl)-dihydrosphingosine (CER[ADS]), cholesterol (CHOL), and palmitic acid (PA) complex model. In this study, the characteristics of the packing structure of two phases with different short lamellar periodicities, which were observed in the intercellular lipid model (CER[ADS]/CHOL/PA) that we used previously, were adjusted for models with different lipid compositions. The characteristics of the packed and lamellar structures have been determined by temperature-scanning small-angle X-ray scattering and wide-angle X-ray diffraction measurements simultaneously. These differences in lamellar structure were thought to be caused by differences in ceramides (CER) conformation between the hairpin and the V-shape type. The lamellar structure of the V-shaped CER conformation has a low orthorhombic ratio. The above results suggest that an increase in the ratio of CER with the V-shaped structure causes the lamellar structure to have low orthorhombic ratio, thereby contributing to a decrease in the bilayer’s barrier function.
关键词：stratum corneum;intercellular lipid;short lamellar;ceramide;X-ray diffraction