title: Studies on the enzymatic pathways of calcium ionophore-induced phospholipid degradation and arachidonic acid mobilization in peritoneal macrophages.
abstract: Exposure of mouse peritoneal macrophages to ionophore A23187 caused a rapid and extensive Ca2+-dependent phospholipid degradation and mobilization of arachidonic acid. Phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine all contributed to the arachidonic acid release, although the ethanolamine phospholipids incorporated [3H]arachidonic acid more slowly during the prelabeling period, particularly the plasmalogen form. Several enzymatic pathways could be positively identified as contributing to the ionophore-induced phospholipid degradation by the use of several different radiolabeled phospholipid precursors: (i) a phospholipase A-mediated deacylation, (ii) a phosphodiesterase (phospholipase C) reaction, rapidly generating diacylglycerol units from inositol phospholipids, and (iii) enzymatic processes generating diacylglycerol and CDP- and phosphocholine/ethanolamine from phosphatidylcholine/ethanolamine. The diacylglycerol formed was in part phosphorylated and in part hydrolyzed to monoacylglycerol, with retention of its arachidonic acid. These, and other, results indicate that the Ca2+-ionophore activates several apparently distinct phospholipid-degrading processes, in contrast to stimuli acting via cellular receptors.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016718:Arachidonic Acid; D001095:Arachidonic Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D001202:Ascitic Fluid; D000001:Calcimycin / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002118:Calcium / Q000494:pharmacology; D004075:Diglycerides / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D005990:Glycerol / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D008264:Macrophages / Q000187:drug effects / Q000201:enzymology*; D051379:Mice; D010712:Phosphatidic Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines / Q000378:metabolism; D010714:Phosphatidylethanolamines / Q000378:metabolism; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols / Q000378:metabolism; D010718:Phosphatidylserines / Q000378:metabolism; D010741:Phospholipases A / Q000378:metabolism; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000378:metabolism*; D010738:Type C Phospholipases / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D001095:Arachidonic Acids; D004075:Diglycerides; D010712:Phosphatidic Acids; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines; D010714:Phosphatidylethanolamines; D010716:Phosphatidylinositols; D010718:Phosphatidylserines; D010743:Phospholipids; D016718:Arachidonic Acid; D000001:Calcimycin; D010741:Phospholipases A; D010738:Type C Phospholipases; D005990:Glycerol; D002118:Calcium