Influence of oxidized lipids on palmitoyl-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine organization, contribution of Langmuir monolayers and Langmuir–Blodgett films

•PoxnoPC and PazePC oxidized lipids were embedded in fluid POPC monolayers.•Their interaction was studied by surface pressure measurements and AFM.•Both oxidized lipids are miscible with POPC under our experimental conditions.•PazePC–POPC mixtures form multilayers at surface pressure above 20 mN m−1.

In this work, we studied the interaction of two oxidized lipids, PoxnoPC and PazePC, with POPC phospholipid. Mean molecular areas obtained from (π–A) isotherms of mixed PoxnoPC–POPC and PazePC–POPC monolayers revealed different behaviors of these two oxidized lipids: the presence of PoxnoPC in the monolayers induces their expansion, mean molecular areas being higher than those expected in the case of ideal mixtures. PazePC–POPC behave on the whole ideally. This difference can be explained by a different conformation of oxidized lipids. Moreover the carboxylic function of PazePC is protonated under our experimental conditions, as shown by (π–A) isotherms of PazePC at different pH values. Both oxidized lipids induce also an increase of the monolayer elasticity, PoxnoPC being slightly more efficient than PazePC. These monolayers were transferred from the air–water interface onto mica supports for a study by AFM. AFM images are on the whole homogenous, suggesting the presence of only one lipid phase in both cases. However, in the case of PazePC–POPC monolayers, AFM images show also the presence of areas thicker of 7 nm to 10 nm than the surrounding lipid phase, probably due to the local formation of multilayer systems induced by compression.

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