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Cholesterol Protects the Liquid-Ordered Phase of Raft Model Membranes from the Destructive Effect of Ionic Liquids.

Xiao-Lei HaoBobo CaoDong DaiFu-Gen WuZhi-Wu Yu
Published in: The journal of physical chemistry letters (2022)
Ionic liquids (ILs), although being a class of promising green solvents, have received many reports on the toxicity to living organisms. In this work, aiming at elucidating the disruptive effect of ILs to cell membrane lipid rafts, we investigated the effect of three 1-octylimidazolium-based ILs on the properties of the liquid ordered phase (L o , a commonly used lipid raft model) of egg sphingomyelin (SM)-cholesterol model membrane. We found that, in the absence of cholesterol, a very low IL:SM molar ratio of 0.01:1 could disrupt the integrity of the bilayer structure. In sharp contrast, the presence of cholesterol in lipid bilayers helps the L o phase resist the damaging effect of the ILs. For the role of the IL headgroup, we found that the mono- and trisubstituted species show a stronger destructive effect on the structures of the model rafts than the commonly used disubstituted counterpart.
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