title: Polyunsaturated fatty acid metabolism in enterocyte models: T84 cell line vs. Caco-2 cell line.
abstract: Human colon carcinoma cell lines such as Caco-2 cells, model of mature enterocytes and T84 cells, model of crypt cells are useful to study interactions between nutrient processing and metabolic functions at intestinal level. Our study aimed at comparing the ability of Caco-2 and T84 cells (1) to incorporate dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), (2) to process them and (3) to sort them into neutral lipids (NL), free fatty acids (FFA) and phospholipids (PL). Caco-2 and T84 cells were exposed to a 7-day long supplementation with PUFA. The amounts of fatty acids accumulated and incorporated into the NL, FFA or PL fractions were higher in Caco-2 than in T84 cells. Caco-2 cells were able to significantly elongate C18 PUFA and C20 PUFA of both n-3 and n-6 families. In contrast, T84 cells were unable to elongate the n-6 fatty acids whereas elongation of n-3 fatty acids was detectable but marginal. Similarly, a Δ6 desaturase activity was observed in Caco-2 but not in T84 cells. In T84 cells, each exogenous fatty acid was predominantly accumulated in the PL fraction. In Caco-2 cells, C20 fatty acids and C18:2n-6 was preferentially accumulated in the PL fraction, while C22 PUFA and C18:3n-3 was preferentially accumulated in the NL fraction. Overall, this study has shown that Caco-2 and T84 cells, as models of intestinal mucosal cells, present large differences in PUFA accumulation capacity, specific elongase and desaturase activities and distribution pattern of exogenous PUFA and of their metabolites in the lipid classes.
authors: Institut des Sciences de la Vie & UCLouvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
authors: Pauline
authors: P
authors: Beguin
authors: Anne-Catherine
authors: AC
authors: Schneider
authors: Eric
authors: E
authors: Mignolet
authors: Yves-Jacques
authors: YJ
authors: Schneider
authors: Yvan
authors: Y
authors: Larondelle
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D018938:Caco-2 Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D020895:Enterocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D015525:Fatty Acids, Omega-3 / Q000378:metabolism*; D005231:Fatty Acids, Unsaturated / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D050356:Lipid Metabolism
chemical_list: D015525:Fatty Acids, Omega-3; D005231:Fatty Acids, Unsaturated
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