title: Phenotype of palmitic acid transport and of signalling in alveolar type II cells from E/H-FABP double-knockout mice: contribution of caveolin-1 and PPARgamma.
abstract: Based on the assumption that fatty-acid-binding proteins (FABPs) of the epidermal-type (E-FABP) and heart-type (H-FABP) in murine alveolar type II (TII) cells mediate the synthesis of dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine (DPPC), the main surfactant phospholipid, we analysed TII cells isolated from wild-type (wt) and E/H-FABP double-knockout (double-ko) mice. Application of labelled palmitic acid to these cells revealed a drop in uptake, beta-oxidation, and incorporation into neutral lipids and total phosphatidylcholine (PC) of TII cells from double-ko mice. Whereas incorporation of labelled palmitic acid into DPPC remained unchanged, degradation studies demonstrated a substantial shift in DPPC synthesis from de novo to reacylation. In addition, increased expression of mRNAs and proteins of caveolin-1 and PPARgamma, and an increase of the mRNA encoding fatty acid translocase (FAT) was observed in the double-ko phenotype. As caveolin-1 interacted with PPARgamma, we assumed that FAT, caveolin-1, and PPARgamma form a signalling chain for fatty acid or drug. Consequently, PPARgamma-selective pioglitazone was added to the diet of double-ko mice. We found that further activation of PPARgamma could 'heal' the E/H-FABP double-ko effect in these TII cells as transport and utilisation of labelled palmitic acid restored a wt phenocopy. This indicated that E-FABP and/or H-FABP are involved in the mediation of DPPC synthesis in wt TII cells.
authors.affiliation: Clinic for Neonatology, Charité Campus Mitte, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10098 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Guthmann
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schachtrup
authors.forename: Angelika
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tölle
authors.forename: Heide
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wissel
authors.forename: Bert
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Binas
authors.forename: Hisatake
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kondo
authors.forename: Yuji
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Owada
authors.forename: Friedrich
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Spener
authors.forename: Bernd
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rüstow
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D001692:Biological Transport; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D051242:Caveolin 1; D022461:Caveolins / Q000502:physiology*; D017931:DNA Primers; D000071438:Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 7; D050556:Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins; D051379:Mice; D018345:Mice, Knockout; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D019308:Palmitic Acid / Q000378:metabolism*; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D011650:Pulmonary Alveoli / Q000378:metabolism*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear / Q000502:physiology*; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; C495541:Cav1 protein, mouse; D051242:Caveolin 1; D022461:Caveolins; D017931:DNA Primers; C086936:Fabp7 protein, mouse; D000071438:Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 7; D050556:Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear; D014157:Transcription Factors; D019308:Palmitic Acid