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  • Title: Phospholipid synthesis in the squid giant axon: enzymes of phosphatidylinositol metabolism.
    Author: Gould RM, Spivack WD, Robertson D, Poznansky MJ.
    Journal: J Neurochem; 1983 May; 40(5):1300-6. PubMed ID: 6300331.
    Abstract:
    We examined the properties of several enzymes of phospholipid metabolism in axoplasm extruded from squid giant axons. The following synthetic enzymes, CDP-diglyceride: inositol transferase (EC 2.7.8.11), ATP:diglyceride phosphotransferase, diglyceride kinase (EC 2.7.2.-), and phosphatidylinositol kinase (EC 2.7.1.67), were all present in axoplasm. Phospholipid exchange proteins, which catalyzed the transfer of phosphatidylinositol and phosphatidylcholine between membrane preparations and unilamellar lipid vesicles, were also found. However, we did not find conditions under which the synthesis of CDP-diglyceride, phosphatidylserine, and phosphatidylinositol-4,5-diphosphate could be measured. Subcellular fractionation by differential centrifugation showed that the axoplasmic inositol transferase and phosphatidylinositol kinase activities were largely "microsomal," while the diglyceride kinase and exchange protein activities were primarily "cytosolic."
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