This work reports on the effects of two omega-3 fatty acids, namely docosahexaenoic (C22:64,7,10,13,16,19) acid (DHA), and eicosapentaenoic (C20:55,8,11,14,17) acid (EPA), with oleic (C18:19) acid (OA) as a control, on the gel-liquid crystalline phase transition of dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (DPPC). Mainly differential scanning calorimetry has been used, together with Laurdan fluorescence, and confocal fluorescence microscopy. All three fatty acids DHA, EPA and OA exhibited fluidifying properties when added to the DPPC bilayers, decreasing the main transition temperature. DHA and EPA were somewhat more effective than OA in this respect, but the effects of all three were of the same order of magnitude, thus the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids failed to exhibit any peculiar fluidifying potency. The same was true when the omega-3 fatty acids were esterified in the sn-2 position of a phosphatidylcholine. Moreover the omega-3 fatty acids had very small or no effects on the fluidity of bilayers in the liquid-crystalline, or fluid disordered state (egg phosphatidylcholine and others), or in the fluid ordered state (phospholipid: cholesterol mixtures). The hypothesis that some physiological effects of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids could be related to their special fluidifying properties is not supported by these data.

Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids do not fluidify bilayers in the liquid-crystalline state / De Santis, A.; Varela, Y.; Sot, J.; D'Errico, G.; Goni, F. M.; Alonso, A.. - In: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. - ISSN 2045-2322. - 8:1(2018), p. 16240. [10.1038/s41598-018-34264-3]

Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids do not fluidify bilayers in the liquid-crystalline state

De Santis A.;D'Errico G.;
2018

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This work reports on the effects of two omega-3 fatty acids, namely docosahexaenoic (C22:64,7,10,13,16,19) acid (DHA), and eicosapentaenoic (C20:55,8,11,14,17) acid (EPA), with oleic (C18:19) acid (OA) as a control, on the gel-liquid crystalline phase transition of dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (DPPC). Mainly differential scanning calorimetry has been used, together with Laurdan fluorescence, and confocal fluorescence microscopy. All three fatty acids DHA, EPA and OA exhibited fluidifying properties when added to the DPPC bilayers, decreasing the main transition temperature. DHA and EPA were somewhat more effective than OA in this respect, but the effects of all three were of the same order of magnitude, thus the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids failed to exhibit any peculiar fluidifying potency. The same was true when the omega-3 fatty acids were esterified in the sn-2 position of a phosphatidylcholine. Moreover the omega-3 fatty acids had very small or no effects on the fluidity of bilayers in the liquid-crystalline, or fluid disordered state (egg phosphatidylcholine and others), or in the fluid ordered state (phospholipid: cholesterol mixtures). The hypothesis that some physiological effects of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids could be related to their special fluidifying properties is not supported by these data.
2018
Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids do not fluidify bilayers in the liquid-crystalline state / De Santis, A.; Varela, Y.; Sot, J.; D'Errico, G.; Goni, F. M.; Alonso, A.. - In: SCIENTIFIC REPORTS. - ISSN 2045-2322. - 8:1(2018), p. 16240. [10.1038/s41598-018-34264-3]
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