Sites of photolytic intermolecular crosslinking between fatty acyl chains in phospholipids carrying a photoactivable carbene precursor

R Radhakrishnan, CE Costello…

Index: Radhakrishnan, Ramachandran; Costello, Catherine E.; Khorana, H. Gobind Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1982 , vol. 104, # 14 p. 3990 - 3997

Full Text: HTML

Citation Number: 14

Abstract

Abstract: A number of sn-glycero-3-phosphorylcholines containing the photosensitive w-[m- (3H-diazirino) phenoxy] undecanoyl group in the sn-2 position and a dideuterated palmitic or stearic acid with both deuteriums on specific carbon atoms along the hydrocarbon chain in the sn-1 position were synthesized. Photolysis of either sonicated vesicles or multilamellar dispersions prepared from these synthetic phospholipids gave extensive intermolecularly ...