The molecular species of phosphatidic acid, diacylglycerol and phosphatidylcholine synthesized from sn-glycerol 3-phosphate in rat lung microsomes
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The molecular species of phosphatidic acid, diacylglycerol and phosphatidylcholine synthesized from sn-glycerol 3-phosphate in rat lung microsomes
Abstract
The species pattern of phosphatidic acid, diacylglycerol and phosphatidylcholine synthesized from [14C]glycerol 3-phosphate was measured using a newly developed HPLC technique yielding 13 molecular species. A direct comparison of these species patterns presupposes determination of the lipolytic activity of lung microsomes. The lipolytic activity was quantitatively determined by measuring the changes of the endogenous concentration of diacylglycerol, triacylglycerol and free fatty acids. The species pattern of endogenous diacylglycerol measured in the time-course of lipolysis did not show any changes up to an incubation period of 20 min, suggesting that the lipolytic activity showed only a very low selectivity for individual substrate species. Diisopropylfluorophosphate (5 mumol/mg microsomal protein) strongly decreased the lipolytic activities as well as the microsomal phosphatidate phosphohydrolase activity, as measured by means of exogenous phosphatidic acid, and also the generation of phosphatidic acid from [14C]glycerol 3-phosphate. In lung microsomes, labeled phosphatidic acid and diacylglycerols were synthesized from the endogenous free fatty acids and sn-[14C]glycerol 3-phosphate, which had previously been added. By addition of CDPcholine to the prelabeled microsomes the synthesis of phosphatidylcholine was measured. After hydrolysis of phosphatidic acid and phosphatidylcholine with cytoplasmatic phosphatidate phosphohydrolase or phospholipase C, respectively, the de novo synthesized species patterns of these two lipids and of the diacylglycerol were determined. Comparison of the species pattern of de novo synthesized phosphatidic acid with that of diacylglycerol largely showed the same distribution of radioactivity among the individual species, except that the relative proportion of label was higher in the 16:0/16:0 and 16:0/18:0 species of phosphatidic acid and lower in the 16:0/20:4 and 18:0/20:4 species than in the corresponding species of diacylglycerol. The species pattern of de novo-synthesized diacylglycerol showed no differences from that of the phosphatidylcholine synthesized from it. From this result we concluded that the cholinephosphotransferase of lung microsomes is nonselective for individual species of the diacylglycerol substrate. The 16:0/18:1 and 16:0/18:2 species of phosphatidic acid, diacylglycerol and phosphatidylcholine showed a higher synthesis rate than their 18:0 counterparts, whereas the 16:0 or 18:0 analogues of species containing 20:4 and 22:6 fatty acids showed nearly the same synthesis rates.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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