A H-1-NMR STUDY OF BILIRUBIN IX-ALPHA SOLUBILIZATION BY CHOLATE MICELLES - APPLICATION OF NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECTS

Purana, Kasturi Lahiri and Raghothama, S and Balaram, P (1987) A H-1-NMR STUDY OF BILIRUBIN IX-ALPHA SOLUBILIZATION BY CHOLATE MICELLES - APPLICATION OF NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECTS. In: Biochimica et Biophysics Acta, 922 (1). pp. 67-77.

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Abstract

The solubilization of bilirubin IX-Alpha in aqueous solution by sodium cholate micelles has been examined by 270 MHz 1H-NMR spectroscopy. Incorporation of bilirubin into the micelles is accompanied by specific shifts of bilirubin vinyl and bridgehead protons and the C18 and C19 methyl groups of the steroid. The observed chemical shifts show a monotonic concentration dependence suggesting that changes in aggregation size are continuous. Nuclear Overhauser effects (NOE) have been shown to be a useful probe or micellization. A 4:1 cholate/bilirubin mixture has been investigated by difference NOE spectroscopy. The observation of intermolecular nuclear Overhauser effects between peripheral protons of bilirubin and cholate are diagnostic of spatially proximate groups. Inter-cholate nuclear Overhauser effects increase in magnitude upon bilirubin incorporation suggesting closer packing of steroid molecules on solubilization of the pigment. Intramolecular nuclear Overhauser effects observed for solubilized bilirubin are consistent with a compact intramolecularly hydrogen-bonded conformation resembling that determined for bilirubin in the solid state.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Biochimica et Biophysics Acta
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Additional Information:	copy right of this article belongs to Elsevier Science
Keywords:	Bilirubin;Cholate micelle;NMR,Nuclear Overhauser effect;Bile salt
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Molecular Biophysics Unit
Date Deposited:	26 May 2009 11:37
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:33
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/20443

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