Synthetic pathways of glycerophospholipids in adult Brugia pahangi and Brugia patei |
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Authors: | A K Srivastava R D Walter J J Jaffe |
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Affiliation: | 1. Abteilung für Biochemie, Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Schiffs- und Tropenkrankheiten, D-2000 Hamburg 4, Federal Republic of Germany;2. Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | The pathways of glycerophospholipid syntheses in adult Brugia pahangi and Brugia patei were examined by radioisotopic incorporation and demonstration of the enzymatic steps. Radiolabelling studies showed that l-U-14C-glycerol-3-phosphate was rapidly incorporated into glycerophospholipids of B. pahangi and B. patei, respectively, with the label distributed in phosphatidylcholine (PC), phosphatidylethanolamine (PE), phosphatidylserine (PS), phosphatidylinositol (PI), phosphatidylglycerol (PG) and cardiolipin (CL) fractions. Crude extracts of these worms were found to contain significant activities of sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyl-transferase (EC 2.3.1.15), phosphatidic acid phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.4), choline phosphotransferase (EC 2.7.8.2), ethanolamine phosphotransferase (EC 2.7.8.1), PE methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.17), PS decarboxylase (EC 4.1.1.65), phosphatidylglycerolphosphate synthetase (EC 2.7.8.5), phosphatidylinositol synthetase (EC 2.7.8.11), and base exchange enzymes of ethanolamine, serine and inositol. These findings suggest that filarial worms can synthesize PC by two pathways, PE by three pathways, and PI by two pathways and fabricate PS, PG and CL. |
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