Fluorescence-polarization measurements on normal and mutant human skin fibroblasts |
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Authors: | Donald F. Haggerty Vijay K. Kalra George Popják Elwood E. Reynolds Francesco Chiappelli |
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Affiliation: | 1. Departments of Psychiatry and Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine and Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024 USA;2. Department of Biochemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90033 USA |
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Abstract: | Measurements of fluorescence polarization in intact diploid skin fibroblasts after exposure to 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene were used to estimate the fluidity of the lipid phase(s) of cellular membranes. The membrane lipids of cells derived from four patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolemia were in a more fluid state than those of cells obtained from 13 other individuals of normal and nonrelated mutant genotypes when all cultures were grown on medium with native serum. The only other cell type having membrane lipids of increased fluidity under these conditions was one fibroblast line derived from a patient with the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. Examination of two additional nonconsanguinous lines of Lesch-Nyhan fibroblasts, however, revealed that an abnormally high level of lipid fluidity was not a common property of the membranes of cells of this genotype. Incubation of cultures in medium containing lipid-depleted serum (virtually devoid of lipoprotein-bound sterol) caused a reversible increase in the fluidity of the membranes of normal cells to values similar to those of the hypercholesterolemic cells, but had no effect on the membranelipid fluidity of the latter. By contrast, exposure of cultures to cholesterol not bound to lipoprotein in serum-free medium resulted in a decrease in the lipid fluidity of the membranes of both normo- and hypercholesterolemic fibroblasts. |
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