Uptake and metabolism of polyprenols by animal cells cultured in vitro.
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Several mammalian, chicken, and mosquito cells grown in vitro take up tritiated dolichol supplied to the incubation medium. The extent of labelling varied markedly between different cell cultures. After 20 h incubation most of the dolichol taken up was unchanged and the major product of metabolism of dolichol was identified as its fatty acid esters. Green-monkey kidney cells were tested with 8 fully unsaturated and 6 alpha-saturated polyprenols ranging from C35 to C105. In general the uptake of alpha-saturated polyprenols (dolichol type, was higher. Considerable differences were found between the uptake of polyprenols of differing chain lengths. Less than 1% of the polyprenols taken up was converted into more polar product, mainly polyprenyl phosphates and polyprenyl phosphate sugars. The short-chain polyprenols, from C35 to C65, were metabolized more rapidly than the long-chain polyprenols, as judged from the amount of polar products and fatty acid esters of polyprenols.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Bioscience reports
دوره 1 12 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1981