n-Alkanols의 분자적 약리작용기전 탐구에 기초자료를 제공하기 위하여 소의 신선한 대뇌피질로부터 분리한 synaptosomal plasma membrane vesicles (SPMV) 지질 이중층의 측방확산운동에 미치는 n-alkanols의 영향을 형광 probe법으로 검색하였다. n-Alkanols는 SPMV 지질 이중층의 측방확산운동 범위와 속도를 농도 의존적으로 증가시켰고 1-nonanol까지는 탄소수가 두개 증가될 때마다 그 효력은 약 10배 가량 증가되었으나 탄소수 10개인 1-decanol의 효력은 오히려 감소되는 경향을 나타내었다.
Intramolecular excimer formation with the fluorescent probe 1,3-di(1-pyrenyl)propane (Py-3-Py) was used to investigate the effects of methanol, ethanol, 1-propanol, 1-butanol, 1-pentanol, 1-hexanol, 1-heptanol, 1-octanol, 1-nonanol and 1-decanol on the lateral diffusion of synaptosomal plasma membrane vesicles isolated from bovine cerebral cortex (SPMV). The n-alkanols increased the excimer to monomer fluorescence intensity ratio (I /I) of Py-3-Py in the SPMV. In a dose-dependent manner, n-alkanols increased lateral diffusion of hydrocarbon region of bulk (inner+outer monolayers) SPMV lipid bilayers, and the potencies of n-alkanols up to l-nonanol increased with carbon chain length. It appears that the potencies in bilayer fluidization due to the lateral diffusion increase by 1 order of magnitude as the carbon chain length increases by two carbon atoms. The cut-off phenomenon was reached at 1-decanol, where further increase in hydrocarbon length resulted in a decrease in pharmacological activity.
