Metabolic Heavy Isotope Labeling to Study Glycerophospholipid Homeostasis of Cultured Cells.
Bio Protoc
; 7(9): e2268, 2017 May 05.
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-34541253
ABSTRACT
Glycerophospholipids consist of a glycerophosphate backbone to which are esterified two acyl chains and a polar head group. The head group (e.g., choline, ethanolamine, serine or inositol) defines the glycerophospholipid class, while the acyl chains together with the head group define the glycerophospholipid molecular species. Stable heavy isotope (e.g., deuterium)-labeled head group precursors added to the culture medium incorporate efficiently into glycerophospholipids of mammalian cells, which allows one to determine the rates of synthesis, acyl chain remodeling or turnover of the individual glycerophospholipids using mass spectrometry. This protocol describes how to study the metabolism of the major mammalian glycerophospholipids i.e., phosphatidylcholines, phosphatidylethanolamines, phosphatidylserines and phosphatidylinositols with this approach.
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En
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Bio Protoc
Year:
2017
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Article
Affiliation country:
Finlandia