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JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH
Volume 59, Issue 6, Pages 1015-1026Publisher
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DOI: 10.1194/jlr.P081620
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phospholipids/phosphatidylethanolamine; phospholipids/phosphatidylcholine; phospholipids/biosynthesis; phospholipids/metabolism; ethanolamine phosphotransferase 1; neurodegenerative disease; hereditary spastic paraplegia; whole exome sequencing
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- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science [17K08642]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15K08284, 17K08642] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Ethanolamine phosphotransferase (EPT)1, also known as selenoprotein 1 (SELENOI), is an enzyme that transfers phosphoethanolamine from cytidine diphosphate-ethanolamine to lipid acceptors to produce ethanolamine glycerophospholipids, such as diacyl-linked phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and ether-linked plasmalogen [1-alkenyl-2-acyl-glycerophosphoethanolamine (plasmenyl-PE)]. However, to date there has been no analysis of the metabolomic consequences of the mutation of EPT1 on the concentration of ethanolamine glycerophospholipids in mammalian cells. We studied a patient with severe complicated hereditary spastic paraplegia, sensorineural-deafness, blindness, and seizures. Neuroimaging revealed hypomyelination, followed by brain atrophy mainly in the cerebellum and brainstem. Using whole exome sequencing, we identified a novel EPT1 mutation (exon skipping). In vitro EPT activity, as well as the rate of biosynthesis of ethanolamine glycerophospholipids, was markedly reduced in cultures of the patient's skin fibroblasts. Quantification of phospholipids by LC-MS/MS demonstrated reduced levels of several PE species with polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as 38:6, 38:4, 40:6, 40:5, and 40:4. Notably, most plasmenyl-PE species were significantly decreased in the patient's cells, whereas most plasmanylcholine [1-alkyl-2-acyl-glycerophosphocholine (plasmanyl-PC)] species were increased. Similar findings regarding decreased plasmenyl-PE and increased plasmanyl-PC were obtained using EPT1-KO HeLa cells. Our data demonstrate for the first time the indispensable role of EPT1 in the myelination process and neurodevelopment, and in the maintenance of normal homeostasis of ether-linked phospholipids in humans.
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