CPT-cAMP and okadaic acid enhance phosphatidylcholine catabolism in choline-deficient rat hepatocytes

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The effect of CPT-cAMP and okadaic acid on phosphatidylcholine catabolism in suspension cultures of choline-deficient rat hepatocytes was investigated. Choline-deficient hepatocytes were pulse-labeled for 30 min with [methyl-3H]choline and subsequently chased for up to 60 min with choline in the absence or presence of 0.5 mM CPT-cAMP or 0.5 μM okadaic acid. Radioactivity in phosphatidylcholine and lysophosphatidylcholine were unchanged during the chase. However, the radioactivity incorporated into glycerophosphocholine was significantly increased (P < 0.05) 59 and 77% after 60 min of chase in hepatocytes incubated with either okadaic acid or CPT-cAMP, respectively. Incubation of choline-deficient hepatocytes with both okadaic acid and CPT-cAMP produced an additive effect on radioactivity incorporated ino glycerophosphocholine. Crude mitochondrial, microsomal, and cytosolic phospholipase–lysophospholipase activities, assayed in the presence of exogenously labeled phosphatidylcholine, were unchanged in both CPT-cAMP and okadaic acid treated hepatocytes compared with control. Phospholipase–lysophospholipase activity, assayed with endogenously labeled phosphatidylcholine, was increased 28 and 47% (P < 0.05) in the crude mitochondrial fraction of hepatocytes treated with either okadaic acid or CPT-cAMP, respectively, compared with the control. Incubation of choline-deficient hepatocytes, labeled with L-[methyl-3H]methionine, with CPT-cAMP or okadaic acid caused a 31 and 20% increase (P < 0.05) in the radioactivity incorporated into glycerophosphocholine, respectively, compared with the control. We postulate that phosphatidylcholine catabolism in choline-deficient hepatocytes may be regulated by a phosphorylation-dephosphorylation mechanism mediated through cAMP-dependent protein kinase and phosphoprotein phosphatase activities.Key words: phosphatidylcholine catabolism, choline deficiency, okadaic acid, CPT-cAMP.

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