Relationship Between Membrane Physical Properties and Secretory Phospholipase A2 Hydrolysis Kinetics in S49 Cells During Ionophore-induced Apoptosis.
From: Department of Physiology and Developmental Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
Biophysical journal
- Publish Date: Oct 2007
- ISSN: 0006-3495
- Volume: 93
- Issue: 7
- Pages: 2350-62
- Medium: Print
- Language: English
- Citation (JAMA): Bailey Rachel W, Olson Erin D, Vu Mai P, et al. Relationship Between Membrane Physical Properties and Secretory Phospholipase A2 Hydrolysis Kinetics in S49 Cells During Ionophore-induced Apoptosis.. Biophys. J. Oct 2007;93:2350-62
Abstract
During apoptosis, changes occur in lymphocyte membranes that render them susceptible to hydrolysis by secretory phospholipase A(2) (sPLA(2)). To study the relevant mechanisms, a simplified model of apoptosis using a calcium ionophore was applied. Kinetic and flow cytometry experiments provided key observations regarding ionophore treatment: the initial rate of hydrolysis was elevated at all enzyme concentrations, the total amount of reaction product was increased fourfold, and adsorption of the enzyme to the membrane surface was unaltered. Analysis of these results suggested that susceptibility during calcium-induced apoptosis is limited by availability of substrate rather than adsorption of enzyme. Fluorescence experiments identified three membrane alterations during apoptosis that might affect substrate access to the sPLA(2) active site. First, intercalation of merocyanine 540 into the membrane was improved, suggesting an increase in lipid spacing. Second, laurdan detected increased solvation of the lower headgroup region of the membrane. Third, the rate at which fluorescent lipids could be removed from the membrane by albumin was enhanced, implying greater vertical mobility of phospholipids. Thus, it is proposed that the membranes of apoptotic cells become susceptible to sPLA(2) through a reduction in lipid-neighbor interactions that facilitates migration of phospholipids into the enzyme active site.
Mesh Headings (Keywords): Animals, Apoptosis, Binding Sites, Biophysics, Cell Line, Tumor, Cell Membrane, Cell Nucleus, Flow Cytometry, Group II Phospholipases A2, Hydrolysis, Ionophores, Kinetics, Mice, Models, Chemical, Phospholipases A, Phospholipases A2, Pyrimidinones
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