Abstract
After 21 days on a diet containing 1g% cholesterol and 0.5g% cholic acid, rats had an increased content of cholesterol in liver microsomal lipids. In liver, both cholesterol content and δ9 desaturase activity increased, whereas δ6 and δ5 desaturase activities decreased. These changes correlated with increases in oleic, palmitoleic, and linoleic acids and decreases in arachidonic and docosahexenoic acids in total microsomal lipids. Similar fatty acid changes were found in phosphatidylcholine (PC), the principal lipid of the microsomal membrane. In PC the predominant molecular fatty acid species (67% of the total) in the control rats were 18:0/20:4, 16:0/20:4, and 16:0/18:2; and they mainly determined the contribution of PC to the biophysical and biochemical properties of the phospholipid bilayer. The cholesterol diet decreased specifically the 18:0/20:4 species, and to a lesser extent, 16:0/20:4 and 18:0/22:6. The 18:1-containing species, especially 18:1/18:2 and less so 16:0/18:1 and 18:1/20:4, were increased. A new 18:1/18:1 species appeared. The independent effects of the presence of cholesterol and change of the fatty acid composition of the phospholipid bilayer of liver microsomes on the packing were studied by fluorescence methods using 6-lauroyl-2,4-dimethylaminonaphthalene, 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene and 1-(4-trimethylammonium phenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene, which test different parameters and depths of the bilayer. Data showed that the increase of cholesterol in the membrane, and not the change of the fatty acid composition of phospholipids, was the main determinant of the increased bulk packing of the bilayer. The increase of fluid oleic- and linoleic-containing species almost compensated for the drop in 20:4- and 22:6-containing molecules. But the most important effect was that the general drop in essential n-6 and n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids meant that this endogenous source for the needs of the animal decreased.
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Abbreviations
- DPH:
-
1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene
- ELSD:
-
evaporative light-scattering detector
- GLC:
-
gas-liquid chomatography
- GP:
-
generalized polarization
- HPLC:
-
high-performance liquid chromatography
- Laurdan:
-
6-lauroyl-2,4-dimethylaminonaphthalene
- PC:
-
phosphatidylcholine
- r s′ :
-
steady-state fluorescence anisotropy
- r co′ :
-
limiting anisotropy
- S :
-
order parameter
- SRE:
-
sterol-responsive element
- SREBP:
-
SRE-binding protein
- τ:
-
lifetime
- δτ:
-
differential polarized phase lifetime
- τ M :
-
modulation lifetime
- τ p , phase τ R :
-
rotational correlation time
- TMA-DPH:
-
1-(4-trimethylammoniumphenyl)-6-phenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene
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Bernasconi, A.M., Garda, H.A. & Brenner, R.R. Dietary cholesterol induces changes in molecular species of hepatic microsomal phosphatidylcholine. Lipids 35, 1335–1344 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11745-000-0650-7
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