Membrane-bound phospholipid desaturases |
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Authors: | E L Pugh M Kates |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biochemistry, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5 Ottawa, Canada |
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Abstract: | This review covers studies on membrane-bound phospholipid desaturases in yeast and rat liver carried out in this laboratory.
In yeast the desaturase system was shown to effect the direct desaturation of dioleoyl-lecithin to dilinoleoyl-lecithin. In
rat liver the desaturase was capable of converting 2-eicosatrienoyl-lecithin to 2-arachidonoyl-lecithin. Both systems required
reduced pyridine nucleotides, O2 and cytochrome b5. Eicosatrienoyl-lecithin desaturase along with eicosatrienoyl-CoA desaturase of rat liver microsomes was solubilized with
detergents and purified 7–8-fold from the microsomal pellets. Both activities were reconstituted in the presence of deoxycholate
on addition of the other components of the cytochrome b5-electron transport chain (cytochrome b5 and NADH-cytochrome b5 reductase) to the solubilized desaturase; addition of lecithin further stimulated the activities. The demonstration of desaturation
of eicosatrienoyl-lecithin by a solubilized and partially purified desaturase provides strong evidence for the direct desaturation
of the lecithin substrate without prior conversion to the acyl-CoA thiolester. |
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