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  • Title: Lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase and lysophosphatidylcholine: lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase in alveolar type II cells from fetal rat lung.
    Author: de Vries AC, Batenburg JJ, van Golde LM.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1985 Jan 09; 833(1):93-9. PubMed ID: 4038460.
    Abstract:
    The specific activity of lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase in sonicated fetal rat lung type II cells was found to be an order of magnitude greater than that of lysophosphatidylcholine:lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase. The specific activity of lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase in sonicated fetal rat lung type II cells increases towards the end of gestation, whereas that of lysophosphatidylcholine:lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase does not show a change. While lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase in whole fetal lung homogenate is more active towards oleoyl-CoA than towards palmitoyl-CoA, the enzyme in sonicated fetal type II cells is more active towards palmitoyl-CoA. If measured with palmitoyl-CoA as acyl donor, the specific activity of lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase in type II cells is higher than that in whole lung during late gestation. In contrast, the specific activity of lysophosphatidylcholine:lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase in type II cells is lower than that in whole lung. These observations indicate that in fetal rat type II cells the deacylation-reacylation cycle is more important for the formation of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine than the deacylation-transacylation process.
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