Dietary induction of acyl chain desaturases alters the lipid composition and fluidity of rat hepatocyte plasma membranes.
Dietary induction of acyl chain desaturases alters the lipid composition and fluidity of rat hepatocyte plasma membranes.
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膳食诱导酰基链去饱和酶改变大鼠肝细胞质膜的脂质组成和流动性。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00301a021
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发表时间:
1984
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Schachter,D
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作者:
Storch,J;Schachter,D
Judith Storch* and David Schachter* abstract: Rats were maintained on a regimen of intermittent starvation followed by refeeding a fat-free diet in order to induce hepatic acyl desaturase activities and other enzymes involved in lipid synthesis. The effects of the dietary regimen on the lipid composition and fluidity of isolated hepatocyte plasma membranes were compared to corresponding effects on microsomal preparations. The dietary regimen increased the content of monoenoic and polyenoic acyl chains and de-creased the cholesterol/phospholipid molar ratio in the plasma membranes. Accordingly, the lipid fluidity of the plasma membranes was significantly increased as assessed by the fluorescence polarization of 1, 6-diphenyl-1, 3, 5-hexatriene and 12-(9-anthroyloxy) stearate and the intramolecular excimer fluorescence of 1, 3-di (1-pyrenyl) propane. In the microsomal membranes, substantial increases in the content of monoenoic acyl chains were offset bydecreases in polyenoic acids, and no change incholesterol/phospholipid ratio was observed. Correspondingly, the lipid fluidity of the microsomal mem-branes remained almost unchanged. The enhancement of lipid fluidity in the hepatocyte plasma membranes was accompanied by an increase of approximately 68% in the specific activity of the (Na++ K+)-dependent adenosinetriphosphatase. The results demonstrate that a dietary regimen can modulate in vivo the lipid composition, fluidity, and enzyme function of the hepatocyte plasma membrane. ere is considerable evidence that the motional freedom or “lipid fluidity” 1 of the hepatocyte plasma membrane influences important activities and functions of the organelle, including the (Na++ K+)-dependent adenosinetriphosphatase [(Na++ K+)-ATPase] 2 (Keeffe et al., 1979), the adenylate cyclase (Houslay et al., 1976a, b; Dipple & Houslay, 1978), and the process of biliary secretion (Davis et al., 1978; Keeffe et al., 1979; Simon et al., 1980; Storch & Schachter, 1983). The mechanisms which regulate the membrane fluidity, however, are relatively undefined, and the present investigation was undertaken to explore the hypothesis that the activity of hepatic acyl chain desaturases can modulate in vivo the composition and fluidity of the plasma membrane lipids. This possibility seemed reasonable, inasmuch as cis unsaturation of phos-pholipid acyl groupsincreases themolecular packing area in monolayers (Demel et al., 1967; Jain, 1972) and the fluidity in bilayers (Lentz et al., 1976; Seelig & Seelig, 1977; King & Spector, 1978; Pessin et al., 1978; Klausner et al., 1980). Moreover, recent evidence supports the more general hypothesis that plasma membrane fluidity can be regulated in vivo by modulating the biosynthesis of specific membrane lipids. In rat enterocytes, changes in cholesterol biosynthesis modulate the cholesterol content and the fluidity of the luminal, microvillus membranes (Brasitus & Schachter, 1982). The experiments described in this paper utilized a dietary regimen of intermittent starvation followed by refeeding a fat-free diet to induceliver fatty acyl desaturase activities (Oshino & Sato, 1972; Strittmatter et al., 1974; Pugh & Kates, 1977). These enzyme activities are in the microsomal fractions of liver homgenates, and they use as substrates the coenzyme A thio esters of palmitic (16: 0) and stearic (18: 0) acids (Marsh & James, 1962; Holloway et al., 1963; Enoch et al., 1976; Jeffcoat & James, 1977) or the acyl groups of phospholipids