The mechanism of ether bond formation in O-alkyl lipid synthesis in Ehrlich ascites tumor. Unusual cleavage of the fatty acid moiety of acyl dihydroxyacetone phosphate.
We have previously presented evidence for the formation of 1-O-alkyl dihydroxyacetone-P from acyl dihydroxyacetone-P via the initial formation of an intermediate 1-O-acyl endiol of acyl dihydroxyacetone-P. This reaction involves a stereospecific exchange of the pro-R hydrogen of the acyl dihydroxyacetone-P moiety without change in configuration. The fatty acid is replaced by a long chain fatty alcohol which retains the oxygen of the primary carbinol. In the absence of fatty alcohol, water substitutes and the product is dihydroxyacetone-P which has also exchanged the pro-R hydrogen with a hydrogen from the medium. An absolute requirement of the proposed mechanism is that the loss of the fatty acid must proceed via an unusual cleavage of the dihydroxyacetone-P C-1 to oxygen bond instead of the usual cleavage at the fatty acid acyl to oxygen bond. In the present investigation, we have synthesized hexadecanoyl dihydroxyacetone-P containing oxygen-18 exclusively at the dihydroxyacetone-P C-1 oxygen. Using this substrate, we have shown that cleavage of hexadecanoyl dihydroxyacetone-P at the C-1 to oxygen bond is linked to O-alkyl dihydroxyacetone-P synthesis. Inhibition of O-alkyl lipid synthesis by means of magnesium or NADPH inhibited the unusual cleavage. At the same time, we have shown that there was hydrolysis of acyl dihydroxyacetone-P which proceeded by the usual mechanism and which was not related to synthesis of O-alkyl dihydroxyacetone-P.[1]References
- The mechanism of ether bond formation in O-alkyl lipid synthesis in Ehrlich ascites tumor. Unusual cleavage of the fatty acid moiety of acyl dihydroxyacetone phosphate. Friedberg, S.J., Weintraub, S.T., Singer, M.R., Greene, R.C. J. Biol. Chem. (1983) [Pubmed]
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