期刊名称：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN：0027-8424
电子版ISSN：1091-6490
出版年度：1982
卷号：79
期号：14
页码：4332-4336
DOI：10.1073/pnas.79.14.4332
语种：English
出版社：The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要：X-ray diffraction, fluorescence polarization of trans-parinaric acid, and fluorescence photobleaching recovery of dioctadecyltrimethyneindolecarbocyanine have been used to characterize the phase composition and liquid phase fluidity of bovine luteal cell membranes and membrane lipids for functional corpora lutea collected at midcycle and for regressing corpora lutea collected after treatment with prostaglandin F2 alpha. These results support previous observations of gel phases in microsomal preparations of regressed luteal cells at physiological temperatures and further suggest that the plasma membrane may be the main source of this gel phase. Analysis of the overall lipid composition of the microsomal preparations from these cells indicates a role for sphingomyelin, in the presence of cholesterol, for the generation of a gel phase at physiological temperatures.
