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The influence of linoleic and linolenic acid on the activity and intracellular localisation of phospholipase D in COS-1 cells

  • Anja Gemeinhardt , Marwan Alfalah , Thomas Gück , Hassan Y. Naim and Herbert Fuhrmann
Published/Copyright: December 17, 2008
Biological Chemistry
From the journal Volume 390 Issue 3

Abstract

Phospholipase D (PLD) is a receptor-regulated signalling enzyme involved in biological functions, such as exocytosis, phagocytosis, actin dynamics, membrane trafficking, and is considered to be essential for stimulated degranulation of cells. The purpose of our investigation was to examine how the fatty acid pattern of cellular membranes influences the activities and cellular distribution of the PLD1 and PLD2 isoforms. Expression of GFP-tagged PLD1 and PLD2 in COS-1 cells that were stimulated with mastoparan after cultivation in 20 μmol linoleic (C18:2n6) or linolenic (C18:3n3) acid for 4 d demonstrated that PLD1 dramatically alters its cellular distribution and is redistributed from intracellular vesicles to the cell surface. PLD2, on the other hand, maintains its localisation at the plasma membrane. The activity of PLD, which corresponds to PLD1 and PLD2, significantly increased two- to three-fold in the presence of the fatty acids. We conclude that linoleic acid and linolenic acid supplementation affect the intracellular trafficking of the PLD1 isoform and the activity of PLD most likely due to alterations in the membrane lipid environment conferred by the fatty acids.


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Received: 2008-8-17
Accepted: 2008-11-27
Published Online: 2008-12-17
Published in Print: 2009-03-01

©2009 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin New York

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