Sphingosine inhibits the activity of rat liver CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase
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Sphingosine inhibits the activity of rat liver CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase
Abstract
We report CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyltransferase (CT) as another target enzyme of sphingosine actions in addition to the well-characterized protein kinase C. Effects of sphingosine and lysophingolipids were studied on the activity of purified cytidylyltransferase prepared by the method of Weinhold et al. (Weinhold, P. A., Rounsifer, M.E., and Feldman, D.A. (1986) J. Biol. Chem. 261, 5104-5110). The sphingolipids were tested as components of egg phosphatidylcholine (PC) vesicles, 25 mol% sphingosine inhibited the CT activity by about 50%. The inhibition of CT by sphingosine and lysosphingolipids was reversible. Sphingosine was found to be a reversible inhibitor of CT with respect to the activating lipids such as phosphatidylserine, phosphatidylinositol, phosphatidylglycerol, and fatty acid:phosphatidylcholine vesicles. Egg PC vesicles containing sphingosine, psychosine (galactosylsphingosine), glucopsychosine (glucosylsphingosine), and lysosphingomyelin (sphingosylphosphorylcholine) suppressed the activation by PC/oleic acid vesicles, whereas the parent sphingolipids did not. Egg PC vesicles containing oleylamine and hexadecyltrimethylamine inhibited CT activity, whereas egg PC-octylamine vesicles did not alter the enzyme activity. This indicates the importance of an amino group and long alkyl chain. LysoPC, a known detergent, did not inhibit the enzyme activity under the same assay conditions in which sphingosine inhibited. These results are the first report of a lipid inhibitor of purified CT.
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