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  • Title: Adaptive changes in lipid composition of skeletal sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes associated with aging.
    Author: Krainev AG, Ferrington DA, Williams TD, Squier TC, Bigelow DJ.
    Journal: Biochim Biophys Acta; 1995 May 04; 1235(2):406-18. PubMed ID: 7756351.
    Abstract:
    We have undertaken a detailed examination of changes associated with aging in lipid composition and corresponding physical properties of hindlimb skeletal sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR) membranes isolated from young (5 months), middle-aged (16 months), and old (28 months) Fischer strain 344 rats. Silica gel HPLC chromatography was used to separate phospholipid headgroup species. Subsequent reversed-phase HPLC was used to resolve fatty acid chain compositions of phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylethanolamine, and phosphatidylinositol species. For all three phospholipid pools, significant age-related variations are observed in the abundance of multiple molecular species, particularly those having polyunsaturated fatty acid chains. Using mass spectrometry (fast atom bombardment and tandem techniques) to distinguish ester- from ether-linked phosphatidylethanolamine species, we demonstrate that overall plasmenylethanolamine content is substantially increased with age, from 48 mol% to 62 mol%. A substantial increase is also observed in the single molecular species 18:0-20:4 phosphatidylinositol suggesting implications for signalling pathways. In addition, associated with senescence we find a significant increase in the rigidifying lipid, cholesterol. Despite these changes in lipid composition of different aged animals, the average bilayer fluidity examined at several bilayer depths with stearic acid spin labels, is not altered. Neither do we find differences in the rotational mobility of maleimide spin-labeled Ca(2+)-ATPase, as determined from saturation-transfer electron paramagnetic resonance, which is sensitive to both the fluidity of lipids directly associated with the Ca(2+)-ATPase and to its association with proteins.
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