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BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY OF LIPIDS
Volume 1580, Issue 2-3, Pages 171-188Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S1388-1981(01)00202-5
Keywords
phospholipid biosynthesis; NMR spectroscopy; phosphatidylcholine; phosphatidylethanolamine
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Choline and ethanolamine are substrates for de novo synthesis of phosphatidylcholine (PtdC) and phosphatidylethanolamine (PtdE) through the CDP-choline and CDP-ethanolamine pathways. In liver, PtdE can also be converted to PtdC by PtdE N-methyltransferase (PEMT). We investigated these kinetics in rat liver during a 60 min infusion with C-13-labeled choline and ethanolamine. NMR analyses of liver extracts provided concentrations and C-13 enrichments of phosphocholine (Pcho), phosphoethanolamine (Peth), PtdC, and PtdE, Kinetic models showed that the de novo and PEMT pathways are 'channeled' processes. The intermediary metabolites directly derived from exogenous choline and ethanolamine do not completely mix with the intracellular pools, but are preferentially used for phospholipid synthesis. Of the newly synthesized PtdC, about 70% was derived de novo and 30% was by PEMT. PtdC and PtdE de novo syntheses displayed different kinetics. A simple model assuming constant fluxes yielded a modest fit to the data; allowing upregulated fluxes significantly improved the fit. The ethanolamine-to-Peth flux exceeded choline-to-Pcho, and the rate of PtdE synthesis (1.04 mumol/h/g liver) was 2-3 times greater than that of PtdC de novo synthesis, The metabolic pathway information provided by these studies makes the NMR method superior to earlier radioisotope studies. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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