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1.
Cancer Res ; 62(7): 1966-70, 2002 Apr 01.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11929812

RESUMO

Specific genetic alterations during malignant transformation may induce the synthesis and breakdown of choline phospholipids, mediating transduction of mitogenic signals. The high level of water-soluble choline metabolites in cancerous breast tumors, relative to benign lesions and normal breast tissue, has been used as a diagnostic marker of malignancy. To unravel the biochemical pathways underlying this phenomenon, we used tracer kinetics and 13C and 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy to compare choline transport, routing, and metabolism to phospholipids in primary cultures of human mammary epithelial cells and in MCF7 human breast cancer cells. The rate of choline transport under physiological choline concentrations was 2-fold higher in the cancer cells. The phosphorylation of choline to phosphocholine and oxidation of choline to betaine yielded 10-fold higher levels of these metabolites in the cancer cells. However, additional incorporation of choline to phosphatidylcholine was similar in both cell types. Thus, enhanced choline transport and augmented synthesis of phosphocholine and betaine are dominant pathways responsible for the elevated presence of choline metabolites in cancerous breast tumors. Uniquely, reduced levels and synthesis of a choline-ether-phospholipid may also serve as a metabolic marker of breast cancer.


Assuntos
Biomarcadores Tumorais/metabolismo , Neoplasias da Mama/metabolismo , Colina/metabolismo , Éteres Fosfolipídicos/metabolismo , Fosfolipídeos/biossíntese , Fosforilcolina/metabolismo , Betaína/metabolismo , Biomarcadores Tumorais/biossíntese , Mama/metabolismo , Isótopos de Carbono , Células Epiteliais/metabolismo , Humanos , Metabolismo dos Lipídeos , Proteínas de Membrana Transportadoras/metabolismo , Ressonância Magnética Nuclear Biomolecular , Fósforo , Células Tumorais Cultivadas
2.
Biochim Biophys Acta ; 1254(3): 295-301, 1995 Feb 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-7857969

RESUMO

Microsomal membranes from six different rat tissues (spleen, lung, kidney, brain, testis, and liver) were found to possess CoA-independent transacylase activity that could both acylate lyso-[3H]PAF (1-[3H]hexadecyl-2-lyso-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine) and then deacylate the 1-[3H]hexadecyl-2-acyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine product via the transacylation of added exogenous 1-alk-1'-enyl-2-lyso-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine. Platelet-activating factor (1-[3H]hexadecyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine) was produced when acetyl-CoA was added to the spleen microsomes during generation of lyso-[3H]PAF by the transacylases. More extensive studies with subcellular fractions from spleen revealed that, in addition to microsomes, the transacylase activities were also present in the 15,000 x g membrane fraction but not in the cytosol. Analysis of molecular species of 1-[3H]hexadecyl-2-acyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine before and after addition of 1-alk-1'-enyl-2-lyso-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine as the acyl acceptor demonstrated a high selectivity for polyunsaturated fatty acids (> 3 double bonds/acyl group) in both the acylation and deacylation processes that occurred in testicular microsomal membranes. The transfer of acyl groups by the transacylase appeared to be equally effective for either arachidonic or docosapentaenoic(n - 6) fatty acids, whereas linoleic and oleic fatty acids were not transferred from 1-[3H]hexadecyl-2-acyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine following the addition of 1-alk-1'-enyl-2-lyso-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine. Similar experiments with the membrane fraction of undifferentiated HL-60 cells showed that arachidonic acid supplementation of intact cells enhanced both the CoA-independent transacylation of lyso-[3H]PAF and the subsequent deacylation of 1-[3H]hexadecyl-2-acyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine caused by addition of 1-alk-1'-enyl-2-acyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamine. Differentiation of the HL-60 cells into a neutrophil-like form had no effect on the transacylase activity. Our results indicate the PAF-related transacylase is widely distributed among tissues and, although highly selective for polyunsaturated acyl groups, does not discriminate selectively among the polyunsaturates.


Assuntos
Aciltransferases/metabolismo , Fator de Ativação de Plaquetas/biossíntese , Animais , Linhagem Celular , Humanos , Masculino , Microssomos/metabolismo , Éteres Fosfolipídicos/metabolismo , Fator de Ativação de Plaquetas/análogos & derivados , Ratos , Ratos Endogâmicos F344 , Baço/metabolismo
3.
Cancer Chemother Pharmacol ; 31(2): 85-92, 1992.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1451237

RESUMO

Antineoplastic ether lipids have entered phase I clinical trial and, although their mechanism of action remains unclear, it is widely believed that the plasma membrane is the primary cellular drug target. In the present study the hypothesis was tested that metabolism of ether lipids acts as a detoxification process. [31P]-nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy was used to study the metabolism of the ether lipid SRI 62-834 (SRI) and the phosphate ester hexadecylphosphocholine (HPC) in the presence of both isolated phospholipases C and D and post-mitochondrial rat liver homogenate. Both SRI and HPC were slowly metabolised by phospholipase D to their alkyl phosphates and choline, and the alkyl phosphates were subsequently metabolised by phosphatase to yield the alcohols and inorganic phosphate. These studies failed to detect any metabolism of either SRI or HPC by phospholipase C, and the metabolism of platelet-activating factor (PAF) by this enzyme was not inhibited by the addition of either compound. The cytotoxicity of SRI, the related compound HPC and their metabolites was determined in vitro using three cell lines. Cytotoxicity was measured by analysis of cell growth kinetics, MTT assay and lactate dehydrogenase release. Closely similar results were obtained in the JB1 rat hepatoma cell line, in the non-transformed BL8 rat hepatocyte cell line, and in A549 human lung adenocarcinoma cells. SRI was the most toxic of the compounds analysed, the concentration required to produce 50% toxicity or growth inhibition (IC50) being 6-9 microM. The putative metabolite of SRI, 2,2'-bis(hydroxymethyl)tetrahydrofuran, and the known metabolites [2'-(octadecyloxymethyl)tetrahydrofuran-2'-yl]methyl phosphate and 2-hydroxymethyl-2-octadecyloxymethyltetrahydrofuran exhibited IC50 values of > 200, > 100 and 40-70 microM, respectively, consistent with metabolic detoxification. HPC was more cytotoxic (IC50, 37 microM) than its phosphate metabolite (IC50, 140 microM), but its toxicity was similar to that of its metabolite hexadecanol (IC50, 28 microM), suggesting that only the former metabolic route leads to detoxification.


Assuntos
Antineoplásicos/metabolismo , Furanos/metabolismo , Éteres Fosfolipídicos/metabolismo , Fosforilcolina/análogos & derivados , Adenocarcinoma/metabolismo , Animais , Antineoplásicos/toxicidade , Membrana Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Sobrevivência Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Relação Dose-Resposta a Droga , Furanos/toxicidade , Neoplasias Hepáticas Experimentais/metabolismo , Neoplasias Pulmonares/metabolismo , Espectroscopia de Ressonância Magnética , Fosfolipase D/metabolismo , Éteres Fosfolipídicos/toxicidade , Fósforo , Fosforilcolina/metabolismo , Fosforilcolina/toxicidade , Ratos , Células Tumorais Cultivadas , Fosfolipases Tipo C/metabolismo
4.
Lipids ; 26(10): 806-18, 1991 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1795602

RESUMO

This study tests the hypothesis that the rat chylomicrons are assembled and released into lymph similarly regardless of the site (rough or smooth endoplasmic reticulum) or pathway (phosphatidic acid or monoacylglycerol) of triacylglycerol biosynthesis. For this purpose we determined the lipid class, fatty acid and molecular species composition of the choline, ethanolamine, inositol and serine phospholipids of lymph chylomicrons during absorption of menhaden, mustard-seed and corn oil (monoacylglycerol pathway) or the corresponding fatty acid methyl or ethyl esters (phosphatidic acid pathway). The dietary fatty acids were found to be incorporated to various extents into different phospholipid classes, the proportions of which were not affected by the nature of the dietary fat. The chylomicron phospholipids contained 80-82% choline, 8% ethanolamine and 2.5% inositol glycerophospholipids, and much smaller amounts of serine and other minor phospholipids. Administration of a meal of each dietary fat resulted in a retention of approximately 50% endogenous fatty acids in the major glycerophospholipids of the chylomicrons. A minimum of 50% of the molecular species of the choline and ethanolamine glycerophospholipids contained at least one exogenous fatty acid. No significant discrepancies were found in the fatty acid and molecular species composition of the glycerophospholipids between chylomicrons from the oil and corresponding ester feeding. It is concluded that the chylomicrons arising from the monoacylglycerol (oil feeding) and the phosphatidic acid (ester feeding) pathways of triacylglycerol biosynthesis become enveloped in surfactant monolayers containing qualitatively and quantitatively identical classes and molecular species of phospholipids.


Assuntos
Quilomícrons/metabolismo , Gorduras na Dieta/metabolismo , Linfa/metabolismo , Éteres Fosfolipídicos/metabolismo , Animais , Cromatografia Gasosa , Quilomícrons/química , Óleo de Milho/metabolismo , Ácidos Graxos/análise , Ácidos Graxos/metabolismo , Óleos de Peixe/metabolismo , Linfa/química , Mostardeira , Fosfatidilcolinas/química , Fosfatidilcolinas/metabolismo , Fosfatidiletanolaminas/química , Fosfatidiletanolaminas/metabolismo , Fosfatidilinositóis/química , Fosfatidilinositóis/metabolismo , Fosfatidilserinas/química , Fosfatidilserinas/metabolismo , Éteres Fosfolipídicos/química , Extratos Vegetais/metabolismo , Óleos de Plantas , Ratos
5.
Biochem Cell Biol ; 69(7): 485-9, 1991 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1793559

RESUMO

The formation of arachidonic acid derived eicosanoids, including thromboxane A2 and leukotriene B4, as well as platelet-activating factor (1-O-alkyl-2-acetyl-glycerophosphocholine), has been implicated in various renal pathophysiologies. Alteration of the fatty acid composition of membrane phospholipids in platelets, the glomerulus, and inflammatory cells, and of 1-O-alkyl-2-acyl-glycerophosphocholine (platelet-activating factor precursor) can be attained by dietary lipid modifications (e.g., consumption of fish oil containing n - 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids). These changes have been associated with an attenuation in renal disease progression and modifications in the synthesis and actions-interactions of eicosanoids, cytokines, and platelet-activating factors.


Assuntos
Gorduras Insaturadas na Dieta/uso terapêutico , Nefropatias/dietoterapia , Éteres Fosfolipídicos/metabolismo , Animais , Citocinas/metabolismo , Eicosanoides/metabolismo , Ácidos Graxos Ômega-3/administração & dosagem , Óleos de Peixe/administração & dosagem , Humanos , Nefropatias/metabolismo , Lipídeos de Membrana/metabolismo , Fator de Ativação de Plaquetas/metabolismo
6.
J Biol Chem ; 265(26): 15653-8, 1990 Sep 15.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-1975590

RESUMO

The glycosyl phosphatidylinositol (PI) membrane anchors of several proteins contain 1-alkyl-2-acyl-glycerophosphoinositol. Although this PI analog has never been found free in cells, the presence of "alkyl-PI" as a component of some membrane anchors suggests its existence. The resistance of ether linkages to cleavage by mild alkali treatment was used to detect possible alkyl chains in the [3H]inositol-labeled phospholipids of several murine lymphoma cell lines which normally express the glycosyl PI-anchored protein Thy-1. One lipid, which arose from alkaline hydrolysis of PI and had mobility on thin layer chromatography similar to lyso-PI, was detected in all wild-type cell lines. Analysis of the base-stable inositol lipids of several lymphoma lines that are deficient in Thy-1 surface expression because of defective biosynthesis of the glycosyl PI membrane anchor revealed that the putative alkyl-PI was missing in the class F mutant. The levels of both the ethanolamine- and choline-containing plasmalogens were also decreased 10-fold in these cells, suggesting a general defect in the production of ether lipids. The activity of the peroxisomal form of dihydroxyacetonephosphate acyltransferase, which catalyzes the first step of ether lipid biosynthesis, was found to be 10-fold decreased relative to the wild-type level. Unlike previously described Chinese hamster ovary cell mutants deficient in ether lipids (Zoeller, R. A., and Raetz, C. R. H. (1986) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 83, 5170-5174), the class F Thy-1- cells contain intact functional peroxisomes. Attempts to restore the putative alkyl-PI to the class F mutants by alkylglycerol supplementation were unsuccessful, despite concomitant restoration of the much larger plasmenylethanolamine pool, suggesting that there are some differences in the biosynthesis of this PI analog and plasmalogens that are presently not understood. Although the deficiencies in ether lipids and surface expression of Thy-1 in the class F mutants could also be due to separate mutations, our findings raise the possibility that alkyl-PI exists in animal cells and may be an obligate precursor for the biosynthesis of the glycosyl-PI membrane anchor of Thy-1.


Assuntos
Antígenos de Superfície/análise , Linfoma/metabolismo , Éteres Fosfolipídicos/metabolismo , Plasmalogênios/biossíntese , Aciltransferases/metabolismo , Animais , Linhagem Celular , Sobrevivência Celular/efeitos dos fármacos , Glicerídeos/farmacologia , Glicolipídeos/metabolismo , Glicosilfosfatidilinositóis , Inositol/metabolismo , Linfoma/imunologia , Camundongos , Microcorpos/enzimologia , Microssomos/enzimologia , Mutação , Fosfatidilinositóis/metabolismo , Éteres Fosfolipídicos/isolamento & purificação , Plasmalogênios/isolamento & purificação , Antígenos Thy-1
7.
Biochemistry ; 29(1): 37-43, 1990 Jan 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-2322547

RESUMO

The transport of exogenously supplied fluorescent analogues of aminophospholipids from the outer to inner leaflet in red blood cells (RBC) is dependent upon the oxidative status of membrane sulfhydryls. Oxidation of a sulfhydryl on a 32-kDa membrane protein by pyridyldithioethylamine (PDA) has been previously shown [Connor & Schroit (1988) Biochemistry 27, 848-851] to inhibit the transport of NBD-labeled phosphatidylserine (NBD-PS). In the present study, other sulfhydryl oxidants were examined to determine whether additional sites are involved in the transport process. Our results show that diamide inhibits the transport of NBD-PS via a mechanism that is independent of the 32-kDa site. This is shown by the inability of diamide to block labeling of the 32-kDa sulfhydryl with 125I-labeled PDA and to protect against PDA-mediated inhibition of NBD-PS transport. diamide-mediated inhibition, but not PDA-mediated inhibition, could be reversed by reduction with cysteamine or endogenous glutathione. Similarly, treatment of RBC with 5,5'-dithiobis(2-nitrobenzoic acid), which depletes endogenous glutathione and induces oxidation of endofacial proteins [Reglinski et al. (1988) J. Biol. Chem. 263, 12360-12366], inhibited NBD-PS transport in a manner analogous to diamide. Once established, the asymmetric distribution of NBD-PS could not be altered by oxidation of either site. These data indicate that a second site critical to the transport of aminophospholipids resides on the endofacial surface and suggest that the transport of aminophospholipids across the bilayer membrane of RBC depends on a coordinated and complementary process between a cytoskeletal component and the 32-kDa membrane polypeptide; both must be operative for transport to proceed.


Assuntos
4-Cloro-7-nitrobenzofurazano/análogos & derivados , Membrana Eritrocítica/metabolismo , Fosfatidilserinas/metabolismo , Benzoxazóis/metabolismo , Cisteamina/metabolismo , Citoesqueleto/metabolismo , Diamida/farmacologia , Dissulfetos/farmacologia , Ácido Ditionitrobenzoico/farmacologia , Glutationa/metabolismo , Humanos , Bicamadas Lipídicas/metabolismo , Proteínas de Membrana/metabolismo , Oxirredução , Éteres Fosfolipídicos/metabolismo , Piridinas/farmacologia , Reagentes de Sulfidrila/farmacologia
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