title: A new assay system of phospholipid exchange activities using concanavalin A in the separation of donor and acceptor liposomes.
abstract: A new assay system of phospholipid exchange activities is described. The exchange activities were quantitated by measuring the stimulation of phospholipid transfer between two separate populations of liposomes, which contained, as the major constituents, phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, phosphatidylinositol, sphingomyelin, and cholesterol in molar ratios of 6 :2 : 1: 1: 5. One population of the liposomes was made reactive to concanavalin A by the incorporation of 1.8 mol% alpha-D-mannosyl-(1 leads to 3)-alpha-D-mannosyl-sn-1, 2-diglyceride from Micrococcus lysodeikticus. The concanavalin A-reactive liposomes, a phospholipid donor, were doubly labelled with [6-3H] galactosylglucosyl ceramide and that class of 32P-labelled phospholipids whose exchange was being measured. The 3H-labelled glycolipid served as a non-exchangeable reference marker. The other population of the liposomes, a phospholipid acceptor, was concanavalin A nonreactive. These two populations of liposomes were incubated with the cytosol protein of rat liver in a total volume of 0.2 ml. After the incubation, two different procedures were used to separate the two liposomal populations. In one procedure concanavalin A was added to agglutinate the reactive liposomes; the flocculated lectin . liposome complex was separated from the non-reactive liposomes by brief centrifugation. In the other procedure the reactive liposomes were trapped by binding to concanavalin A covalently coupled to Sepharose 2B; the complex was separated from the non-reactive liposomes by filtration through a filter paper under suction. In both assay procedures the amount of phospholipid transferred from the donor to the acceptor liposomes was calculated from the decrease of 32P/3H ratio of the concanavalin A-reactive liposomes during the incubation. By the assasy system it is possible to determine phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylinositol exchange activities in 100 micrograms of rat liver cytosol protein.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001692:Biological Transport; D003208:Concanavalin A; D003600:Cytosol / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D008081:Liposomes; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism; D010743:Phospholipids; D011485:Protein Binding; D011506:Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats
chemical_list: D008081:Liposomes; D010743:Phospholipids; D011506:Proteins; D003208:Concanavalin A