title: Alterations of fatty acyl turnover in macrophage glycerolipids induced by stimulation. Evidence for enhanced recycling of arachidonic acid.
abstract: Glycerophospholipid biosynthesis by the de novo pathway was assessed in mouse peritoneal macrophages by pulse-labeling with [U-14C]glycerol. Phosphatidylcholine (PC), which amounts to about 35% of total cellular phospholipids, exhibited the highest rate of glycerol uptake, followed by phosphatidylinositol (PI) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE). Remodeling of PC molecular species by deacylation/reacylation was established by determining the redistribution of glycerol label over 2 h after a 1 h pulse of [U-14C]glycerol and by determining incorporation of 18O from H2(18)O-containing media. These data suggest that stearic and arachidonic acid enter PC primarily by the remodeling pathway but that small amounts of highly unsaturated molecular species, including 1,2-diarachidonoyl PC, are rapidly synthesized de novo, and subsequently remodeled or degraded. Treatment of the cells with the ionophore A23187 resulted in the selective enhancement of arachidonate turnover in PC, PI and neutral lipid, as well as enhanced de novo PI synthesis. [U-14C]Glycerol labeling experiments suggest that arachidonic acid liberated by Ca(2+)-dependent phospholipase A2 activity is also reacylated in part through de novo glycerolipid biosynthesis, leading to the formation and remodeling of 1,2-diarachidonoyl PC and other highly polyunsaturated molecular species.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Josai University, Saitama, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuwae
authors.forename: P C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Schmid
authors.forename: H H
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Schmid
mesh_terms: D000215:Acylation; D000818:Animals; D000001:Calcimycin / Q000494:pharmacology; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D004983:Ethanolamines / Q000378:metabolism; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D005990:Glycerol / Q000378:metabolism; D007476:Ionophores / Q000494:pharmacology; D050356:Lipid Metabolism; D017737:Macrophages, Peritoneal / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D010103:Oxygen Isotopes; D010712:Phosphatidic Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D004983:Ethanolamines; D005227:Fatty Acids; D007476:Ionophores; D010103:Oxygen Isotopes; D010712:Phosphatidic Acids; D010713:Phosphatidylcholines; D000001:Calcimycin; D005990:Glycerol