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JOURNAL OF LIPID RESEARCH
Volume 44, Issue 1, Pages 164-171Publisher
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DOI: 10.1194/jlr.M200340-JLR200
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free radicals; unilamellar vesicles; radical initiator; antioxident; phosphatidylethanolamine
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The aims of the present study are to establish an appropriate system for assessing the oxidizability of cholesterol (CH) in phospholipid (PL) bilayers, and to explore the effect of ethanolamine plasmalogens on the oxidizability of CH with the system, through comparing with those of choline plasmalogens, phosphatidylethanolamine, and antioxidant alpha-tocopherol (Toe). Investigation of the effects of oxidants, vesicle lamellar forms, saturation level, and constituent ratio of PLs in vesicles on CH oxidation revealed the suitability of a system comprising unilamellar vesicles and the water-soluble radical initiator 2,2'-azobis (2-amidino-propane) dihydrochloride (AAPH). As CH oxidation in the system was found to follow the rate law for autoxidation without significant interference from oxidizable PLs, the oxidizability of CH in PL bilayers could be experimentally determined from the equation: k(p)/(2k(t))(1/2)=R-p/[LH]R-i(1/2) by measuring the rate of CH oxidation. It was found with this system that bovine brain ethanolamine plasmalogen (BBEP), bovine heart choline plasmalogen, and egg yolk phosphatidylethanolamine lower the oxidizability of CH in bilayers. Comparison of the dose-dependent effects of each PL demonstrated the greatest ability of BBEP to reduce the oxidizability. A time course study of CH oxidation suggested a novel mechanism of BBEP for lowering the oxidizability of CH besides the action of scavenging radicals.
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