N-ACYLATION OF ETHANOLAMINE PHOSPHOLIPIDS IN CANINE MYOCARDIUM
N-ACYLATION OF ETHANOLAMINE PHOSPHOLIPIDS IN CANINE MYOCARDIUM
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DOI:
10.1016/0005-2760(82)90352-6
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
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SCHMID, HHO
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作者:
NATARAJAN, V;REDDY, PV;SCHMID, HHO
N-Acylethanolamine phospholipids, which are found in infarcted but not in normal canine myocardium, were produced by preparations of normal myocardial tisue incubated in the presence of millimolar concentrations of Ca2+. Biosynthetic activity from endogenous substrates was associated with both microsomal and mitochondrial fractions and exhibited an alkaline pH optimum. The time course of N-acylethanolamine phospholipid synthesis and degradation was followed after pulse labeling of myocardial ethanolamine phospholipids with [1,2-14C]ethanolamine. Enzymic N-acylation of both phosphatidylethanolamine and lysophosphatidylethanolamine was demonstrated by incubating these substrates with homogenates of myocardial tissue. Neither free fatty acids nor acyl-CoA derivatives served as acyl donor, but some of the constituent fatty acids of exogenous phosphatidylethanolamine were recovered among the amide-linked fatty acids of the N-acylethanolamine phospholipids. N-Acylation may thus occur by the transfer of O-acyl groups catalyzed by a Ca2+-dependent transacylase. Since N-acylethanolamine phospholipids are precursors of the biologically active N-acylethanolamines, their biosynthesis may constitute an important injury-induced metabolic event aimed at the protection of ischemic myocardial tissue.