Tetraenoic Species Are Conserved in Muscarinically Enhanced Inositide Turnover |
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Authors: | Lucio A A Van Rooijen Amiya K Hajra Bernard W Agranoff |
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Institution: | Neuroscience Building, Mental Health Research Institute and Department of Biological Chemistry, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Carbamylcholine enhances the labeling of phosphatidate and phosphatidylinositol from 32Pi in nerve endings. Approximately 74% of labeled phosphatidate and 85% of labeled phosphatidylinositol produced on muscarinic stimulation are accounted for by tetraenoic species, as detected by argentation TLC. Incubation of membranes derived from nerve endings with gamma-32P]ATP under conditions of phosphodiesteratic degradation of endogenous polyphosphoinositides resulted in increased labeling of phosphatidate. Approximately 78% of the newly formed phosphatidate was in a tetraenoic fraction. It is concluded that in muscarinically stimulated nerve endings, the diacylglycerol moiety is conserved following diacylglycerol release from polyphosphoinositides through its resynthesis to inositol lipid via phosphatidate. |
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Keywords: | Diacylglycerol Inositol lipids Muscarinic receptor Nerve endings Polyphosphoinositides Tetraenoic lipids |
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