Transfer of the phosphatidyl moiety of phosphatidylglycerol to phosphatidylethanolamine in Escherichia coli.

AUTOR(ES)

Yokota, K

RESUMO

Phosphatidylglycerol was pulse-labeled with radioactive lipid precursors in a serine auxotroph of Escherichia coli. Most of the radioactivity of phosphatidylglycerol labeled in a serine-depleted medium was transferred to phosphatidylethanolamine during a chase in the presence of L-serine, but not in its absence. Metabolism of fatty acyl moieties labeled with [1-14C]acetate, acylated glycerol moieties labeled with [2-3H]glycerol, and phosphate moieties labeled with 32Pi, followed by a chase in the presence of cerulenin, showed that the intact phosphatidyl moiety of phosphatidylglycerol was transferred to phosphatidylethanolamine. The composition of phosphatidylethanolamine molecular species was unaltered and not perturbed by the transfer of the phosphatidyl moiety of phosphatidylglycerol. The increase of phosphatidylethanolamine with a concomitant decrease of phosphatidylglycerol was not coupled with the postulated turnover of phosphatidylglycerol to membrane-derived oligosaccharides and lipoprotein. It is suggested that phosphatidylglycerol is capable of providing its phosphatidyl moiety for the production of phosphatidylethanolamine in response to the relief of serine limitation by addition of L-serine.

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