title: Adrenoleukodystrophy: impaired oxidation of fatty acids due to peroxisomal lignoceroyl-CoA ligase deficiency.
abstract: Very long chain fatty acids (lignoceric acid) are oxidized in peroxisomes and pathognomonic amounts of these fatty acids accumulate in X-adrenoleukodystrophy (X-ALD) due to a defect in their oxidation. However, in cellular homogenates from X-ALD cells, lignoceric acid is oxidized at a rate of 38% of control cells. Therefore, to identify the source of this residual activity we raised antibody to palmitoyl-CoA ligase and examined its effect on the activation and oxidation of palmitic and lignoceric acids in isolated peroxisomes from control and X-ALD fibroblasts. The normalization of peroxisomal lignoceric acid oxidation in the presence of exogenously added acyl-CoA ligases and along with the complete inhibition of activation and oxidation of palmitic and lignoceric acids in peroxisomes from X-ALD by antibody to palmitoyl-CoA ligase provides direct evidence that lignoceroyl-CoA ligase is deficient in X-ALD and demonstrates that the residual activity for the oxidation of lignoceric acid was derived from the activation of lignoceric acid by peroxisomal palmitoyl-CoA ligase. This antibody inhibited the activation and oxidation of palmitic acid but had little effect on these activities for lignoceric acid in peroxisomes from control cells. Furthermore, these data provide evidence that peroxisomal palmitoyl-CoA and lignoceroyl-CoA ligases are two different enzymes.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston 29425.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Lazo
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Contreras
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bhushan
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Stanley
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D000326:Adrenoleukodystrophy / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D003066:Coenzyme A Ligases / Q000172:deficiency*; D002549:Diffuse Cerebral Sclerosis of Schilder / Q000378:metabolism*; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D005347:Fibroblasts; D006801:Humans; D008099:Liver / Q000201:enzymology; D008830:Microbodies / Q000201:enzymology*; D019308:Palmitic Acid; D010169:Palmitic Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D012867:Skin / Q000201:enzymology
chemical_list: D005227:Fatty Acids; D010169:Palmitic Acids; D019308:Palmitic Acid; D003066:Coenzyme A Ligases; C044125:lignoceroyl-CoA ligase; C010210:lignoceric acid