Gramicidin films at the air/water interface are shown to exhibit a phase transition at 225 A2/molecule which might be caused by either cluster formation, reorientation of molecules, conformational changes or multilayer formation. It is further shown that coupling of a charged group on either NH2- or COOH-terminus or elongation of the peptide by two amino acids, only slightly affects the surface area characteristics whereas modification of the tryptophans or even replacement of a single tryptophan by phenylalanine leads to drastic alterations in the surface-area characteristics and a (partial) loss of the phase transition demonstrating that the tryptophans play an important role in the interfacial behavior of gramicidin. The lack of a solvent history effect on the interfacial behavior indicates a rapid conformational interconversion of the peptide at the air/water interface. Gramicidin in mixtures with dioleoylphosphatidylcholine and lysopalmitoylphosphatidylcholine shows a condensing effect whereas gramicidin shows ideal mixing with dioleoylphosphatidylethanolamine. The condensing effect most likely is related to the aggregational state of the peptides which is different in phosphatidylcholines and phosphatidylethanolamines. © 1989, The Biophysical Society. All rights reserved.
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Tournois, H., Gieles, P., Demel, R., de Gier, J., & de Kruijff, B. (1989). Interfacial properties of gramicidin and gramicidin-lipid mixtures measured with static and dynamic monolayer techniques. Biophysical Journal, 55(3), 557–569. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0006-3495(89)82849-8
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