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  • Title: Rabbit myocardial cytosolic lysophospholipase. Purification, characterization, and competitive inhibition by L-palmitoyl carnitine.
    Author: Gross RW, Sobel BE.
    Journal: J Biol Chem; 1983 Apr 25; 258(8):5221-6. PubMed ID: 6833297.
    Abstract:
    Rabbit myocardial lysophospholipase was purified 27,000-fold to near homogeneity by ammonium sulfate precipitation, DEAE-Sephacel, gel filtration, chromatofocusing, and hydroxylapatite chromatography. Chromatofocusing demonstrated two activity peaks, each with a molecular mass of 23,000 daltons by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Both activity peaks had similar kinetic parameters (Vmax = 7 mumols/mg/min, Km = 9-11 microM) and similar pH profiles (7.5 optimum). Each activity peak was competitively inhibited by L-palmitoylcarnitine with similar inhibitory constants (KI = 10-11 microM). In addition, palmitic acid competitively inhibited myocardial lysophospholipase (KI = 37 microM). A rapid loss of lysophospholipase activity resulted from heating at 37 degrees C in the absence of substrate (t1/2 = 3 min). This thermal denaturation was attenuated similarly by either lysophosphatidylcholine (15 microM) or L-palmitoylcarnitine (15 microM). Thus, L-palmitoylcarnitine complexes with purified myocardial lysophospholipase and competitively inhibits a major pathway of lysophosphatidylcholine catabolism, thereby potentially contributing to accumulation of lysophosphatides in ischemic myocardium and ventricular dysrhythmia.
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