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Current membrane technologies are important in many industrial separation processes, especially in water purification and desalination. However, the large operating pressure gradient that is required for conventional reverse osmosis filtration makes water purification a very expensive process [1,2,3,4]. The discovery of aquaporin proteins has provided us with a revolutionary alternative to current membranes used in water purification.
Aquaporins (Aqp) are transmembrane proteins that are present in the biological membranes of organisms such as plants, mammals and bacteria [5,6]. They form pores that act as water channels, which play key roles in selectively allowing only water molecules to move across the plasma membrane while rejecting protons, charged particles and other solutes [7,8]. Aquaporin Z (AqpZ) is of special interest in water purification and seawater desalination. This is because AqpZhas been successfully expressed in Escherichia coli as reported by Soupene et al. [9], and has been purified in high concentrations to be used for integration into biomimetic membranes for water filtration [10,11]. Furthermore, AqpZ is the smallest, simplest and most robust aquaporin in the Aqp family and it can retain its properties after reconstitution in polymeric bilayer membrane vesicles [12].
Similar to other aquaporins, AqpZ naturally exists as a tetramer made up of 4 equal sub-units (or monomers) [13], with each aquaporin monomer having six transmembrane α-helical structuresand five connecting loops named A to E [12]. Each aquaporin monomer contains an individual pore, or water channel, that allows the transport of water bi-directionally withwater transport rates of up to 109 molecules per second. Loops B and E contain the most highly conserved residues, including the asparagine-proline-alanine (NPA) signature motif of Aqp, which are directly involved in the water channel function of Aqp. Loops B and E fold into the membrane from opposite sides of the bilayer, overlapping midway through the bilayer where they are surrounded by six transmembrane helices, forming the “hour-glass” model of the water channel. Owing to its unique hour-glass configuration with the NPA motif, AqpZ iscapable of achieving high water selectivity and 100% salt rejection. Three features of the water channel contribute to this high selectivity for water, which are size restriction, electrostatic repulsion and water dipole re-orientation [13]. Firstly, the narrowest constriction of the pore has a diameter of 2.8 Å [13], which is approximately the diameter of a water molecule. Hence, water molecules are physically sieved through and allowed to penetrate while other ions and solutes are rejected due to this selective property. Another feature contributing to the high water selectivity of aquaporin is the electrostatic repulsion induced by one of the conserved residue, Arg-195, located at the narrowest pore constriction [13,14,15,16]. This residue carries a strong positive charge which repels cations including protonated water, H3O+, hence preventing the passage of positively-charged ions. The third feature is that the hemipore loops carrying the NPA motifs—Loops B and E—form helices that meet midway of the channel, producing positively charged dipoles that reorient water molecules. This water dipole reorientation results in the opposite alignment of water molecules, which disrupts hydrogen bonding between neighbouring water molecules. Hence, the conductance of H+ ions is eliminated [17].
In most Aqp, the hydrophobic channels function as open channels, but some plant aquaporins, such as the spinach Aqp, have been described by Chaumont et al. (2005) to exhibit a form of gating mechanism. These Aqp are able to close up their channels under extreme conditions in order to stop water exchange altogether, which lends credence to the basis that AqpZ permeability is likely to vary with external conditions, eventhough they may or may not exhibit the same form of gating mechanisms observed [18]. However, the water filtration mechanisms by which these Aqp function are not fully understood. The protein will be influenced by external factors such as pH and temperature, which can cause a disruption to its structure and affect the protein’s functionality and properties [19]. The different external conditions can induce structural changes of the Aqp proteins and may lead to an adverse or favorable effect on the water transport and selection mechanism. Hence, it may result in a change to the osmotic permeability of AqpZ.
In addition, the thickness of the phospholipid bilayer may regulate transmembrane proteins funcationalities due to the hydrophobic mismatch between the hydrophobic length of the transmembrane proteins and the hydrophobic thickness of the bilayers [20,21,22,23,24,25,26]. To counteract the hydrophobic mismatch, either the surrounding bilayer thickness or the protein conformation will change, for example resulting in an activity change of melibiose tranporters or mechanosensitive ion channels [20,21,22,23,24,25,26]. To date, it remains unclear how the osmotic permeability of AqpZ will be affected by the hydrophobic thickness of the surrounding bialyer membrane.
Compared to phospholipids, amphiphilic block copolymers are more suitable in the fabrication of AqpZ reconstituted biomimetic membranes for the purpose of water filtration because block copolymers possess higher chemical and mechanical stability due to their chemical structures and flexible functional designs. ABA block copolymer, such as poly(2-methyloxazoline)-b-poly(dimethylsiloxane)-b-poly(2-methyloxazoline) (PMOXA-PDMS-PMOXA), has been widely used in fabrication of AqpZ-based biomimetic membrane for water purification [1,27,28,29,30,31]. It has been reported that the permeability of an AqpZ-reconstitutedPMOXA-PDMS-PMOXA membrane is 167 mm/s/bar, which is by two orders of magnitude greater than commercial polymeric membranes [1]. Therefore, we chose the amphiphilic block copolymer of PMOXA-PDMS-PMOXAs as the bilayer matrix for AqpZ reconstitution in this work.
The rationale of the present study is to gain further insight into the regulation of AqpZ permeability through environmental conditions, including the protein-bilayer hydrophobic mismatch, pH and temperature. We reconstituted AqpZ into vesicles that are made from a series of amphiphilic block copolymers of PMOXA-PDMS-PMOXA with various hydrophobic molecular weights. The osmotic permeability of AqpZ in these vesicles is determined by stopped-flow spectroscopy. In addition, the temperature and pH of the vesicle solutions were adjusted within wide ranges to investigate the regulation of osmotic permeability of the AqpZ at different external conditions.
Aquaporin Z has been prepared as reported by Calamita et al. [6] and in our previous studies [27,28,29,30,31]. Briefly, E. coli genomic DNA was extracted and the aqpZ gene was amplified and cloned into the pCR-4 vector using the TOPO cloning kit (Invitrogen, USA). The positive clones were sequenced and further subcloned into a modified expression vector, the pQE-30 Xa expression vector, with ampicillin selection and an amino-terminal 10x His-affinity tag (Qiagen, USA). The E. coli strain TOP10F was transformed and grown to 0.6-1OD at 600 nm in LB with 100 mg/l of ampicillin and subsequently induced with 1 mM of isopropyl-D-thiogalactoside. The harvested cells were resuspended in one 1/50 culture volume of ice-cold lysis buffer containing 100 mM of K2HPO4, 1 mM of MgSO4, 1 mM of phenylmethylsulfonylfluoride (PMSF), and 0.1 mg/ml of deoxyribonuclease I (pH 7.0). Cells were subjected to 4 lysis cycles in a French press (115 × 106 Pa at 4 °C). The unbroken cells and debris were separated from the cell lysate by centrifugation at 10, 000 g and discarded. Membrane fractions were recovered from the supernatant by centrifugation at 100, 000 g. AqpZ was solubilized from pellets by agitation in 1% dodecyl maltoside and PBS [12]. The solubilized protein was purified through Ni-NTA resin (Qiagen, USA), washed, and eluted with PBS (pH 7.4) and 250 mM of imidazole. The imidazole was removed using a Bio-Rad (Hercules, California, United States) Econo-Pac DG10 desalting column [32]. The resulting recombinant Aquaporin Z protein contained the 10 His-tag at the protein’s N-terminus and was utilized for embedding into membranes and vesicles.
A series of ABA triblock copolymers, poly(2-methyloxazoline)-block-poly(dimethylsiloxane)-block-poly(2-methyloxazoline) (PMOXA-PDMS-PMOXA, Polymer Source Inc.), with various hydrophobic/hydrophilic compositionsare used for AqpZ reconstitution, as shown in Table 1.
| Name | ABA triblock copolymers | Hydrophobic molecular weight of the polymer (Da.) | fhydrophilic (Hydrophilic mass ratio) |
| P2500 [a] | PMOXA500-PDMS2500-PMOXA500 [c] | 2500 | 28.57 % |
| P4000 [b] | PMOXA1000-PDMS4000-PMOXA1000 [c] | 4000 | 33.33 % |
| P5000 [b] | PMOXA1300-PDMS5000-PMOXA1300 [c] | 5000 | 34.21 % |
| P8500 [a] | PMOXA1300-PDMS8500-PMOXA1300 [c] | 8500 | 23.40 % |
| P8800 [a] | PMOXA2000-PDMS8800-PMOXA2000 [c] | 8800 | 31.25% |
| [a] tri-block copolymers P2500, P8500 and P8800 are with hydroxyl end groups; [b] tri-block copolymers P4000 and P5000 are with methacrylate end groups which allow for a UV light induced polymerization; [c] In “PMOXAxxx-PDMSxxxx-PMOXAxxx”, the number after each block represents the molecular weight (Da.) of each block. |
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DownLoad: CSVThe blankcopolymer vesicles were prepared using the film rehydration method shown in Figure 1. Each kind of polymer (3 mg) was dissolved in chloroform (5 ml)in a round bottomed flask. Chloroform was then evaporated slowly in a rotary vacuum evaporator at -10°C and at a vacuum of 400 mbar, to form an even andthin film of polymer at the bottom of the flask. Theresidual chloroform was further removed using a vacuum pump. The film was then rehydrated by the respective pH buffer(prepared from sodium chloride with hydrogen chloride or sodium hydroxide, with total ion concentration of 0.2 mol/L) solutions or deionized water, forming suspension with polymer concentration of 1 mg/ml. The mixture was left at room temperature with stirring for 10 h. The resultant polymersome suspension was extruded 21 times with a polycarbonate membrane with pore diameter of 200 nm to achieve unilamellar vesicles with a narrow size distribution.
Figure 1. Schematic diagram for reconstitution of AqpZ into vesicles that are made from amphiphilic block copolymers.
The preparation procedure for proteopolymersomes was similar as above. The only difference was in the reconstitution experiments, where an appropriate amount of AqpZ solution (1 mg/ml in 2% DDM (dodecyl maltoside) wasadded to the samples duringrehydration. The detergent was removed by adding bio-beads into the mixture. The bio-beads were added every 4 h for 5 times, to allow for the adsorption process to reach equilibrium each time before the next batch of bio-beads adding into the suspension. Bio-beads were added in 5-fold excess in the last batch to ensure that the remaining detergent molecules will be adsorbed and removed entirely.The proteopolymersomes were then extruded with the same method as in the preparation of the blank polymersomes.
The extruded P4000 and P11500 polymersome suspensions were purged with argon for 10 min and further crosslinked under UV irradiation (254 nm, 6 mW cm-2) for 15 min using a BLX-E254 crosslinker (Vilber Lourtmat, France). The polymer vesicles before and after UV irradiation were freeze-dried and characterized using a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR-8400 Shimadzu Corp., Japan) to determine the crosslinking reaction between the methacrylate groups.
Vesicle size was measured by a dynamic light scattering unit (Zetasizer 3000 HAS equipped with a He-Ne laser beam at 658 nm, Malvern Instruments Ltd., Malvern, UK; scattering angle: 90°). Vesicle suspensions were diluted to 0.01 mg/ml with DI water or respective buffer solution for the dynamic light scattering tests. An average value was obtained from three measurements.
Vesicle morphologies were measured using field emission transmission electron microscopy (FETEM), whereby the vesicles were stained on plasma-treated copper grids using 1% trifluoroacetic acid.
The permeability coefficients of various polymer vesicles with or without AqpZ reconstitution were characterized using the stopped-flow (Chirascan Circular Dichroism Spectrometer, Applied Photophysics, UK) method. For each individual stopped-flow test, 0.13 ml extruded polymersome or proteopolymersome solution with polymer concentration of 1 mg/ml was quickly mixed with 0.13 ml sucrose buffer (0.6 osmol/L), which caused water efflux from vesicles that resulted in vesicle shrinkage. At least 6 tests were performed for each sample. The dead time for the mixing of stopped flow injection was 4 ms. The vesicle size changes were monitored and recorded in the form of an increasing signal in the light scattering analysis. The initialrise of the signal curve was fitted to equation (1).
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Where Y is the signal intensity, A is the negative constant, k is the initial rate constant (s-1), and t is the recording time. The osmotic water permeability was calculated using Equation (2).
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Where Pf is the osmotic water permeability (m/s), S is the vesicle surface area (m2), V0 is the initial vesicle volume (m3), Vw is the partial molar volume of water (0.018 L/mol), and Δosm is the osmolarity difference that drives the shrinkage of the vesicles (osmol/L).
Single AqpZ channel permeability was calculated using Equation (3) [33].
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Pf, proteopolymersome is the permeability of the AqpZ-vesicles, Pf, polymersome is the permeability of the polymersomes without AqpZ reconstitution, and Mon/A is the number of AqpZ monomers per unit area in the proteopolymersomes.
To measure the Arrhenius activation energy of water molecules across polymer vesicles, Stopped-flow experiments were carried out at different temperatures (5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 °C) for both blank polymer vesicles and AqpZ-reconstituted polymer vesicles. The exponential increase rates (k) calculated from the light scattering signals were plotted against the inverse of temperature for calculation of the Arrhenius activation energies. The comparative experiments were all tested at room temperature.
All the data presented in this study represent the mean ± standard deviation values of three experiments, unless stated otherwise. Statistical differences between groups were found using a Student’s t-test.
In this study, detailed investigation was carried out on the mechanism of water transport through AqpZ reconstituted polymer bilayers. Our aim was to establish a relationship between membrane matrix properties and the AqpZ functionality, as well as the relationship between the AqpZ permeability and the environmental conditions. Triblock copolymer PMOXA-PDMS-PMOXA is the most commonly used membrane matrix for AqpZ incorporation. The molecular structure including molecular weight, hydrophilic-lipophilic balance, functional end group and crosslinking capability, has to be considered carefully to ensure the successful incorporation of aquaporins into the vesicles to maintain its structure and function. We incorporated AqpZ into a series of PMOXA-PDMS-PMOXA block copolymers, adjusted the pH value of vesicle solutions, and controlled the temperature during stopped flow measurement, in order to investigate the influence of molecular structure of the membrane matrixand the external conditions onthe osmotic permeability of the reconstituted AqpZ.
Amphiphilic block copolymers have similar behaviour as lipids, which are also amphiphilic. In aqueoussolutions, amphiphilic block copolymers will self-assemble into various ordered morphologies, such as micelles, vesicles and lamellar phases. Three parameters of block copolymers play important roles in the phase transition between these morphologies, including the molecular weight of the polymer, the mass fraction (f) of each block, and the effective interaction energy between the repeating units in the blocks [34]. PMOXA-PDMS-PMOXA has been widely adopted to form vesicle bilayers for the reconstitution of transmembrane proteins [1,27,29] through self-assembly. In this section, we systematically investigated how the polymer molecular weight and the mass fraction of each block influence the self-assembly, and how the molecular weight of the hydrophobic block effects the AqpZ permeability.
A series of block copolymers PMOXA-PDMS-PMOXA with various molecular weight andhydrophobic/hydrophilic ratio were chosen to prepare proteopolymersomes, as listed in Table 1. The hydrophilic ratio (fhydrophilic) of these polymers ranges from 23.4 to 34.2% in the sequence of P8500 < P2500 < P8800 < P4000 < P5000. Figure 2 shows the morphologies of the self-assemblies without extrusion. It can be seen that all of them form vesicles except for P8500. This result is consistent with previous report in that the fhydrophilic range of block copolymer to form vesicles is between 25 to 40% [35]. With increasing fhydrophilic, vesicle size decreases sequentially as P2500 > P8800 > P4000 > P5000. According to the simulation results from our previous work, larger vesicles are preferable since larger vesicles will generate higher water flux as compared to smaller ones in an AqpZ-incorporated-vesicular membrane [27]. Therefore, block copolymers with fhydrophilic ranging from 25 to 30% are preferable for preparation of AqpZ-incorporated-vesicular membrane.
Figure 2. Morphologies of polymersomes by transmission electron microscope (TEM). Polymersomes are made from PMOXA-PDMS-PMOXAs with various molecular weights: (a) P2500; (b) P4000; (c) P4000 after exposure to UV irradiation; (d) P8800; (e) P8500; (f) P5000; (g) P5000 after exposure to UV irradiation.
The vesicle wall thickness is greatly influenced by the molecular weight of the hydrophobic block of PDMS in the PMOXA-PDMS-PMOXA. Figure 3 shows the correlation between the molecular weight of the hydrophobic block and the vesicle wall thickness measured from TEM. It can be seen that, vesicle wall thickness increases from 5.2 nm to 11.6 nm when the molecular weight of the hydrophobic block PDMS increases from 2500 to 8800. A longer hydrophobic chain length leads to a thicker membrane wall and a higher packing density due to chain entanglement, which is consistent with other reports [34]. In addition, the triblock copolymers P4000 and P5000 have methacrylate end groups thatallow for a UV light-induced polymerization. After UV light exposure, the methacrylate end groups distributed at the vesicle surface will be polymerized with neighbouring methacrylate end groups and form a covalent bond shell on the vesicle surface, which will enhance the mechanical stability of vesicles. In Figure 3, the red points refer to the wall thickness of vesicles that are formed from methacrylate-copolymers after UV exposure. It is noted that for vesicles prepared from methacrylate-copolymers, P4000 and P5000, vesicle wall thickness increases after UV polymerization of the methacrylate end groups as compared to vesicles without or before polymerization.
Figure 3. Relationship between the molecular weight of the hydrophobic PDMS block in the ABA triblock copolymers and the thickness of the hydrophobic layer in the vesicle membrane (vesicle wall thickness). The vesicle wall thicknesses were measured from TEM images by using Photoshop software. 10 points were randomly selected for each sample. Values are represented with the mean ± standard deviation (n = 10).
The hydrophobic thickness of the polymer vesicles, as shown in Figure 3,is thicker than that of lipid bilayers, which is 3 nm [36]. When AqpZ is reconstituted into polymer vesicles, there is hydrophobic mismatch between the hydrophobic length of the AqpZ and the hydrophobic thickness of the membrane, as shown in Figure 4. It has been reported that the membrane protein with hydrophobic mismatch towards the neighbouring bilayer will distort the bilayer at the interface, resulting in the bilayer morphology not being aligned correctly with the protein [37]. It has also been reported that the elastic lipid chain distortions are insufficient to compensate fully for the mismatch [38], and the structure and dynamics of protein might change due to this hydrophobic mismatch [39,40]. The stretched or compressed structure of AqpZ might affect water transport behavior of the water channels. In this work, the permeability of AqpZ that reconstituted in these polymers was therefore investigated through the vesicle permeability using stopped-flow spectroscopy.
Figure 4. Schematic diagram of hydrophobic mismatch between the reconstituted AqpZ and the hydrophobic layer of the vesicle membrane.
Figure 5 shows examples of the light scattering intensity curves for blank polymersomes (Figure 5a) and proteopolymersomes (Figure 5b). It can be observed from Figure 5a that with increasing hydrophobic chain length, vesicle size responds slower to the osmotic pressure. When the hydrophobic chain length is above 5000 Da, vesicle size almost does not respond to the osmotic pressure, indicating an extremely slow water diffusion speed across the thick hydrophobic wall and a negligible water permeability of the blank polymersomes. From Figure 5b,it can be observed that all AqpZ reconstituted vesicles shrink more quickly than the blank vesicles under the osmotic pressure. This proves that AqpZ has been successfully reconstituted to maintain its water transport functionality in these polymer vesicles. According to Figure 3,vesicle wall thickness ranges from 5.2 to 11.6 nm, which is much thicker than the lipid bilayer. The stopped-flow results gave us confidence that the hydrophobic mismatch, which is less than 9 nm, will not lead to AqpZ misfolding or denaturation.
Figure 5. Water permeability of the vesicles determined by a stopped-flow spectroscopy. The increase in the light scattering signal represents a reduction in vesicle size due to water efflux from the vesicle to the solution. The data were exponentially fitted by equation (1). The solid lines represent fitting curves. (a) The relative light scattering signals of blank vesicles without AqpZ incorporation; (b) The relative light scattering signals of AqpZ-reconstituted vesicles at a protein-polymer molar ratio of 1:200.
Figure 6 shows permeabilities for both types of vesicles (Figure 6a) and each AqpZ unit in proteopolymersomes (Figure 6b). In this work, the molecular weight of the hydrophobic block PDMS ranges from 2500 to 8800 Da. Correspondingly, vesicle wall thickness ranges from 5.2 nm to 11.6 nm. A stretched AqpZ structure might take place due to the hydrophobic mismatch between the AqpZ protein and a thick hydrophobic layer of the vesicle membrane. In order to investigate whether the stretched structure of AqpZ affected the water transport behavior of the water channels, we calculated the water permeability of each AqpZ unit (Pa) in these vesicles. The Pa value ranges from 6.9 to 14 × 10-14 cm3 s-1 which is consistent with Verkman’s results (from 6 to 24 × 10-14 cm3 s-1) [41], indicating that the hydrophobic mismatch, in our experiment range, will not lead to AqpZ misfolding or denaturation. Moreover, from Figure 6b,we find that a thicker vesicle wall leads to a larger Pa value, indicating that the hydrophobic mismatch in our experiment range enhances the water permeability of the AqpZ channel. The reason could be due to the water channel being distortedand expanded to a small extent, forming a “stretched structure” of AqpZ. Further evidence will be needed to confirm this hypothesis of a stretched AqpZ structure in the polymer bilayers.
Figure 6. (a) Permeability coefficient (Pf) of vesicles, and (b) permeability of each AqpZ unit (Pa). Pf and Pa are determined by stopped-flow spectroscopy. The light scattering signals from stopped-flow were exponentially fitted by equation (1). Pf and Pa are calculated by using equation (2) and equation (3), respectively. All the experiment data have been repeated 3 times. Values represent the mean ± standard deviation (error bars) with n = 3.
To investigate the activation energies for water transport in both the polymer bilayers and the AqpZ channels, stopped-flow spectroscopy and light scattering analysis were performed at various temperatures ranging from 278 K to 303 K. Figure 7 was plotted using the derived ln k values against the inverse temperature values, 1/T, where k is the initial rate constant (s-1) of the light scattering intensity signal, and T is the temperature. The observed trends for the ln k values of the blank polymer vesicles and AqpZ-reconstituted polymer vesicles to the variation in experimental temperatures were consistent for all the ABA copolymers used, and exhibited similar linearly decreasing trends. When temperature increases, more heat energy is provided to the water molecules present. The heat energy gained by the water molecules gets converted to kinetic energy, leading to an increase in the rate of transport of the water molecules across the membrane through the AqpZ channels. In addition, higher temperature provides higher kinetic energy to the water molecules, leading to greater frequency and impact of the water molecules against the bilayer structure. Therefore, this gives rise to a greater number of water molecules passing through the bilayer structure through the pores present between the polymers, without going through AqpZ proteins.
Figure 7. Arrhenius plots for calculation of activation energy for osmotic transport of water across AqpZ-reconstituted polymer vesicles and blank polymer vesicles. In AqpZ-reconstituted vesicles, the protein-polymer molar ratio was 400:1. Polymers used in these vesicles were (a) P2500, (b) P4000, (c) P5000 and (d) P8800. All the experimental data have been repeated 3 times. Values represent the mean value.
As shown in Figure 8,the calculated Arrhenius activation energies for blank polymer bilayers ranges from 6.4 to 52.8 kcal/mol, which is consistent with the reported activation values for water transport across polymer membranes [42]. The high Arrhenius activation energies of blank polymer vesicles indicate that the water transport through polymer bilayers is based on a diffusion-driven mechanism. It can also be observed that higher Arrhenius activation energies were obtained from the polymer vesicles with higher hydrophobic molecular weight, compared to those polymer vesicles with lower hydrophobic molecular weight. The denser packing of the longer hydrophobic chain and the thicker membrane hydrophobic thickness form a larger barrier for diffusion, requiring higher activation energies for water molecules passing through. Arrhenius activation energies for AqpZ reconstituted polymer vesicles range from 2.1 to 6.1 kcal/mol. These lower Arrhenius activation energies indicate that water transport across the AqpZ reconstituted vesicles is channel-mediated. Borgnia et al. reported that the activation energy for AqpZ channel is 3.7 kcal/mol in proteoliposomes [12] and thus our results are comparable to the reported value. In addition, when AqpZ were reconstituted into block copolymers with longer hydrophobic chains, a lower Arrhenius activation energy was required for water molecules to pass through the AqpZ channel. It again implies that the structure of AqpZ channel might be stretched to some extent due to the hydrophobic mismatch, leading to a wider channel for the water molecule to pass through. To confirm this hypothesis, further investigations using x-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulation will be needed.
Figure 8. Arrhenius activation energy for osmotic transport of water across AqpZ-reconstituted polymer membranes and blank polymer membranes with various hydrophobic chain lengths.
Figure 9a shows the permeability coefficients of the AqpZ-reconstituted P4000 vesicle in buffer solutions with different pH values. The highest Pf appears near neutral conditions when the pH is 7.5. With increasing concentration of H+, the Pf greatly decreased at pH of 5.5, and increased again in the strongly acidic environment with pH less than 3.5. On the other hand, with increasing concentration of OH- in the vesicle solution, the Pf value also greatly decreased at pH of 8.9 and followed by a slight increase at the strongly basic environment with a pH of more than 10. Further, we calculated the osmotic permeability of AqpZ channel (Pa) based on the Pf value. As shown in Figure 9b,the Pa versus the pH shows the same trend as the vesicle permeability coefficient (Pf). This shows that thewater filtration mechanism of AqpZ is significantly affected by the ions of H+ and OH-.
Figure 9. (a) Vesicle permeability coefficient (Pf), and (b) permeability of each AqpZ unit (Pa) versus pH value of the buffer solution. Proteopolymersomes were made from P4000. The polymer to protein molar ratio was 400:1. All the experiment data have been repeated 3 times. Values represent the mean ± standard deviation (error bars) with n=3.
The observed trends for the regulation in the osmotic permeability of the AqpZ-ABA vesicles (Figure 9a) and the individual AqpZ proteins (Figure 9b) are similar with respect to the variation in pH. The tendency of the osmotic permeability to decrease with increasing pH values may be attributed to the structure of AqpZ. Near the constriction of the AqpZ hydrophobic channel, there are histidine (H) and arginine (R) residues present in the AqpZ monomer loops at positions H180 and R195 respectively that provide the positive charges required in the water transport mechanism of AqpZ [14,15]. Histidine has an overall pI value of 7.6 with their imidazole side chains having a pKa of about 6.0, while arginine has an overall pI value of 10.8 with their guanidinium side chains having a pKa of 12.5. Hence, the positive charges present on the residues will change with pH due to the effects of protonation.
The change in the protonation status of the -COOH terminal group of the amino acid residues as pH changes, may have an effect on the water-pore interaction and the formation of the single file configuration of water molecules passing through the AqpZ channel. Thus AqpZ water transport efficiency was affected since the separation capabilities of AqpZ stems from the formation of thesingle file of water molecule, which prohibits proton translocation and is dependent on the positive charges present at positions H180 and R195 [14,15].
There is an increasing pressure to innovate cheaper forms of membrane technologies to address the issue of water scarcity. Biomimetic membrane technologies utilizing aquaporin is an attractive alternative that can carry out filtration at high capacities using a lower pressure gradient. For AqpZ to be exploited successfully in membrane filtration, an understanding of the factors that influence the osmotic permeability of AqpZ is critical. This study investigated the influences of factors such as pH, temperature, crosslinking and the molecular structure of the ABA tri-block copolymers (PMOXA-PDMS-PMOXA) in which the AqpZ was incorporated, on the osmotic permeability of AqpZ. Results show that the molecular structure of PMOXA-PDMS-PMOXA significantly alters the vesicle morphology and aquaporin functionality. Block copolymers with longer hydrophobic chains form vesicles with thicker hydrophobic walls, resulting in larger hydrophobic mismatch between the protein and the bilayer membrane. The stopped flow results show that the osmotic permeability of AqpZ has improved when reconstituted in a bilayer with a larger hydrophobic thickness. The Arrhenius activation energies for water transport across the AqpZ channel showa decreasing trend with increasing hydrophobic thickness of the bilayers, indicating a “stretched structure” of the AqpZ when encountering a lengthening hydrophobic mismatch. In addition, we found that the water filtration mechanism of the AqpZ protein is significantly affected by the ionic concentrations of H+ and OH-. The individual AqpZ exhibits the highest osmotic permeability in neutral solution. The ApqZ osmotic permeability decreased with eitherincreasing concentrations of H+, or increasing concentrations of OH-.
This work was financially supported by Singapore's National Research Foundation (NRF) through the Environment and Water Industry Programme Office (EWIPO) EWI projects, 1102-IRIS-13-01 and 1102-IRIS-13-02 as well as the NUS grant R706000022279. The authors would like to thank Prof. T. S. Chung, Drs Q. Lin, H. Wang, H. Zhou, L. Wang for their suggestions and help with this work.
All authors declare no conflicts of interest in this paper.
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| Name | ABA triblock copolymers | Hydrophobic molecular weight of the polymer (Da.) | fhydrophilic (Hydrophilic mass ratio) |
| P2500 [a] | PMOXA500-PDMS2500-PMOXA500 [c] | 2500 | 28.57 % |
| P4000 [b] | PMOXA1000-PDMS4000-PMOXA1000 [c] | 4000 | 33.33 % |
| P5000 [b] | PMOXA1300-PDMS5000-PMOXA1300 [c] | 5000 | 34.21 % |
| P8500 [a] | PMOXA1300-PDMS8500-PMOXA1300 [c] | 8500 | 23.40 % |
| P8800 [a] | PMOXA2000-PDMS8800-PMOXA2000 [c] | 8800 | 31.25% |
| [a] tri-block copolymers P2500, P8500 and P8800 are with hydroxyl end groups; [b] tri-block copolymers P4000 and P5000 are with methacrylate end groups which allow for a UV light induced polymerization; [c] In “PMOXAxxx-PDMSxxxx-PMOXAxxx”, the number after each block represents the molecular weight (Da.) of each block. |
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DownLoad: CSV| Name | ABA triblock copolymers | Hydrophobic molecular weight of the polymer (Da.) | fhydrophilic (Hydrophilic mass ratio) |
| P2500 [a] | PMOXA500-PDMS2500-PMOXA500 [c] | 2500 | 28.57 % |
| P4000 [b] | PMOXA1000-PDMS4000-PMOXA1000 [c] | 4000 | 33.33 % |
| P5000 [b] | PMOXA1300-PDMS5000-PMOXA1300 [c] | 5000 | 34.21 % |
| P8500 [a] | PMOXA1300-PDMS8500-PMOXA1300 [c] | 8500 | 23.40 % |
| P8800 [a] | PMOXA2000-PDMS8800-PMOXA2000 [c] | 8800 | 31.25% |
| [a] tri-block copolymers P2500, P8500 and P8800 are with hydroxyl end groups; [b] tri-block copolymers P4000 and P5000 are with methacrylate end groups which allow for a UV light induced polymerization; [c] In “PMOXAxxx-PDMSxxxx-PMOXAxxx”, the number after each block represents the molecular weight (Da.) of each block. |
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