Characterization of Inositol Phospholipids and Identification of a Mastoparan-induced Polyphosphoinositide Response in Tetrahymena Pyriformis

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Journal Lipids

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2000 Jul 25

PMID 10907787

Citations 7

Authors

G Leondaritis

D Galanopoulou

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Abstract

The unicellular eukaryote Tetrahymena is a popular model for the study of lipid metabolism. Less attention, however, has been given to the inositol phospholipids of the cell, although it is known that this class of lipids plays an important role in eukaryotic cell signaling. Tetrahymena pyriformis phosphatidylinositol was isolated, purified, and characterized by proton nuclear magnetic resonance analysis and [2-(3)H]myoinositol labeling. Labeling was also used for polyphosphoinositide (phosphatidylinositol phosphate and phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate) identification. Tetrahymena inositol phospholipids were found to belong to the diacylglycerol group, although major Tetrahymena phospholipids, phosphatidylcholine and aminoethylphosphonoglycerides, have been found to be mainly alkylacylglyceroderivatives. Further characterization of Tetrahymena phosphatidylinositol by gas chromatographic analysis indicated that 80% of fatty acids were myristic acid and palmitic acid. This is also in contrast to the fatty acid profile of Tetrahymena phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylethanolamine, with respect both to the fatty acid length and degree of unsaturation, and may indicate that specific diacylglycerol species are connected with the phosphatidylinositol metabolism in this cell. Treatment of [3H]inositol-labeled Tetrahymena cells with mastoparan, a G-protein-activating peptide, induced changes in the polyphosphoinositide levels, suggesting that inositol phospholipids may form in Tetrahymena a functional signaling system similar to that of higher eukaryotes. Addition of 10 microM mastoparan resulted in a rapid and transient increase in [3H]phosphatidylinositol phosphate followed by a decrease in [3H]phosphatidylinositol bisphosphate. Similar changes in lipids have been reported when phosphoinositide-phospholipase C pathway is activated in both animal and plant cells.

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