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Mammalian cells stably overexpressing N-acylphosphatidylethanolamine-hydrolysing phospholipase D exhibit significantly decreased levels of N-acylphosphatidylethanolamines.
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PMID:  15760304     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
In animal tissues, NAEs (N-acylethanolamines), including N-arachidonoylethanolamine (anandamide), are primarily formed from their corresponding NAPEs (N-acylphosphatidylethanolamines) by a phosphodiesterase of the PLD (phospholipase D) type (NAPE-PLD). Recently, we cloned cDNAs of NAPE-PLD from mouse, rat and human [Okamoto, Morishita, Tsuboi, Tonai and Ueda (2004) J. Biol. Chem. 279, 5298-5305]. However, it remained unclear whether NAPE-PLD acts on endogenous NAPEs contained in the membrane of living cells. To address this question, we stably transfected two mammalian cell lines (HEK-293 and CHO-K1) with mouse NAPE-PLD cDNA, and investigated the endogenous levels and compositions of NAPEs and NAEs in these cells, compared with mock-transfected cells, with the aid of GC-MS. The overexpression of NAPE-PLD caused a decrease in the total amount of NAPEs by 50-90% with a 1.5-fold increase in the total amount of NAEs, suggesting that the recombinant NAPE-PLD utilizes endogenous NAPE as a substrate in the cell. Since the compositions of NAEs and NAPEs of NAPE-PLD-overexpressing cells and mock-transfected cells were very similar, the enzyme did not appear to discriminate among the N-acyl groups of endogenous NAPEs. These results confirm that overexpressed NAPE-PLD is capable of forming NAEs, including anandamide, in living cells.
Authors:
Yasuo Okamoto; Jun Morishita; Jun Wang; Patricia C Schmid; Randy J Krebsbach; Harald H O Schmid; Natsuo Ueda
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't    
Journal Detail:
Title:  The Biochemical journal     Volume:  389     ISSN:  1470-8728     ISO Abbreviation:  Biochem. J.     Publication Date:  2005 Jul 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2005-06-15     Completed Date:  2005-12-12     Revised Date:  2009-11-18    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  2984726R     Medline TA:  Biochem J     Country:  England    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  241-7     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Biochemistry, Kagawa University School of Medicine, 1750-1 Ikenobe, Miki, Kagawa 761-0793, Japan.
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Descriptor/Qualifier:
Animals
CHO Cells
COS Cells
Cercopithecus aethiops
Cricetinae
Gene Expression / genetics
Humans
Mice
Phosphatidylethanolamines / metabolism*
Phospholipase D / genetics,  metabolism*
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
0/Phosphatidylethanolamines; EC 3.1.4.4/N-acylphosphatidylethanolamine phospholipase D, mouse; EC 3.1.4.4/Phospholipase D
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