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  • Title: Lysophosphatidylcholine metabolism to 1,2-diacylglycerol in lymphoblasts: involvement of a phosphatidylcholine-hydrolyzing phospholipase C.
    Author: Nishijima J, Wright TM, Hoffman RD, Liao F, Symer DE, Shin HS.
    Journal: Biochemistry; 1989 Apr 04; 28(7):2902-9. PubMed ID: 2742817.
    Abstract:
    We have previously described the chemoattraction of lymphoblasts by lysophosphatidylcholine [Hoffman, R. D., et al. (1982) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 79, 3285-3289]. In studying the mechanism of chemoattraction it was found that lysophosphatidylcholine was metabolized to 1,2-diacylglycerol by the lymphoblastic cell line 6C3HED. One route of metabolism involves the acylation of lysophosphatidylcholine to phosphatidylcholine with subsequent hydrolysis to 1,2-diacylglycerol and phosphocholine by the action of phospholipase C. The increase in cellular 1,2-diacylglycerol was established by metabolic experiments using [14C]glycerol-labeled lysophosphatidylcholine and by mass measurements of 1,2-diacylglycerol. The presence of a phosphatidylcholine-hydrolyzing phospholipase C was confirmed in 6C3HED cell homogenates. In intact cells, lysophosphatidylcholine induced a pattern of protein phosphorylation similar to those of 1,2-dioctanoylglycerol and phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate, two known activators of protein kinase C. This pathway of lysophosphatidylcholine metabolism, which involves a phosphatidylcholine-hydrolyzing phospholipase C, may be important in the activation of protein kinase C independent of inositol phospholipid hydrolysis.
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