Vitamin E. deficiency increases the synthesis of platelet-activating factor (PAF) in rat polymorphonuclear leucocytes.
Vitamin E deficiency was found to stimulate FMLP (N-formyl-L-methionyl-L-leucyl-L-phenylalanine)-induced biosynthesis of PAF (1-O-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine) in polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMN) from rat peritoneum. In three separate experiments each, the amounts of PAF synthesized during 6 min and 12 min incubation of PMN cells from control, vitamin E-supplemented, and vitamin E-deficient rats were 129-240, 131-227 and 248-354 pmol/10(6) cells, respectively. The activity of the acetyl-transferase, which transfers the acetyl moiety of [3H]acetyl-CoA to 2-lysoPAF (1-O-alkyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine) to form [3H]PAF, was higher in PMN homogenates from vitamin E-deficient rats (2.28 +/- 0.07 nmol/min/mg protein) than in those from E-supplemented rats (1.06 +/- 0.10 nmol/min/mg protein). However, there was no difference between the two groups in the activity of acetylhydrolase (4.26 +/- 0.71 and 4.26 +/- 0.06 nmol/min/mg protein, respectively), measured as degradation of [3H]PAF to [3H]lysoPAF. In vitro addition of alpha-tocopherol did not inhibit the increased activity of acetyl-transferase in vitamin E-deficient rats, indicating that the enzyme in vitamin E-supplemented rats was not directly inhibited by alpha-tocopherol. The acetyl-transferases of the two groups showed similar Km values for acetyl-CoA, but different Vmax values (225 microM and 6.4 nmol/min/mg protein in vitamin E-deficient rats, and 216 microM and 3.6 nmol/min/mg protein in vitamin E-supplemented rats), suggesting that the enzyme was not activated but increased in amount in vitamin E deficiency.
Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tokushima University, Japan.
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Fukuzawa
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Kurotori
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Tokumura
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Tsukatani
D000105:Acetyl Coenzyme A / Q000378:metabolism; D000123:Acetyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D004789:Enzyme Activation / Q000187:drug effects; D008297:Male; D009504:Neutrophils / Q000378:metabolism*; D010972:Platelet Activating Factor / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013997:Time Factors; D014811:Vitamin E Deficiency / Q000201:enzymology / Q000378:metabolism*
D010972:Platelet Activating Factor; D000105:Acetyl Coenzyme A; D000123:Acetyltransferases; C046035:1-alkylglycerophosphocholine acetyltransferase