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La dihidroceramida delta (((4) desaturasa inicia la oxidación del sustrato en C-4
C K Savile1, G Fabriàs, P H Buist
1Department of Chemistry, Ottawa-Carleton Chemistry Institute, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6, Canada.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|July 18, 2001
Resumen
Este estudio revela el mecanismo de desaturación de la dihidroceramida Delta (4). La oxidación inicial ocurre en el enlace C4-H, no en el C5-H, como lo demuestran los efectos del isótopo de deuterio en los microsomas del hígado de rata.
Área de la Ciencia:
- La bioquímica es la bioquímica.
- Enzimología Enzimología.
- El metabolismo de los lípidos.
Sus antecedentes:
- La desaturación de la dihidroceramida delta ((4) es un paso clave en la biosíntesis de los esfingolípidos.
- El mecanismo preciso, particularmente el orden de la escisión de los enlaces C-H, sigue siendo incompletamente entendido.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para dilucidar el mecanismo de desaturación de la dihidroceramida Delta.
- Para determinar la regioselectividad de la escisión del enlace C-H durante la desaturación enzimática.
Principales métodos:
- Efectos del isótopo de deuterio primario intermolecular utilizado. efectos del isótopo de deuterio primario utilizado.
- Microsomas de hígado de rata incubados con análogos de dihidroceramida no etiquetados y regiospecíficamente deshidratados.
- Los productos enzimáticos analizados mediante cromatografía de gases y espectrometría de masas.
Principales resultados:
- Identificó dos pasos discretos para la introducción de la doble obligación (E).
- Se observó un efecto isotópico significativo en el enlace C4-H (k(H) /k(D) = 8.0 +/- 0.8), lo que indica que es un paso que limita la velocidad.
- Se encontró un efecto isotópico insignificante en el enlace C5-H (k ((H) / k ((D) = 1,02 +/- 0,07).
Conclusiones:
- Los resultados sugieren fuertemente que la oxidación inicial ocurre en el enlace C4-H.
- Este hallazgo se alinea con las observaciones de la formación de productos 4-hidroxilados por enzimas de levadura relacionadas.
- Proporciona una visión mecánica crítica de las vías de desaturación de los ácidos grasos.
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