Parallel activities of fatty acid methyl esters and analogous phorbol diesters toward mouse lymphocytes |
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Authors: | CStuart Baxter Larry A Fish |
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Institution: | Department of Environmental Health University of Cincinnati Medical Center 3223 Eden Avenue Cincinnati, Ohio 45267 USA |
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Abstract: | Linear saturated fatty acid methyl esters were comitogenic with lectins for mouse lymphocytes, the degree of comitogenicity being strongly dependent on the length of the acyl group, and maximal for methyl tetradecanoate. Lesser effects were found for analogs with 10, 12 or 16 acyl carbon atoms, whereas those with fewer than 10 or more than 16 were inactive. Analogous structure-function relationships have been described for various membrane-active and tumor-promoting phorbol diesters, where there is a similar dependence on ester acyl group length for many activities. The fatty acid esters may therefore represent simple model compounds for studying mechanistic aspects of phorbol diester activity. |
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