Journal of Lipid Research, Vol. 11, 486-495, September 1970
Copyright © 1970 by Lipid Research, Inc.

Lipids of dystrophic and normal mouse muscle: whole tissue and particulate fractions

K. Owens and B. P. Hughes

Muscular Dystrophy Research Laboratory, Department of Chemical Pathology, The National Hospital, Queen Square, London W.C. 1, England

Myofibrillar, mitochondrial, and microsomal fractions were prepared from normal and dystrophic mouse limb muscle by differential centrifugation and analyzed for phospholipids and cholesterol. Fatty acids and aldehydes of neutral lipids and of phospholipids from whole muscle and particulate fractions were also determined.

Normal microsomes contained more lecithin and less total ethanolamine phospholipids and cardiolipin than mitochondria. The myofibrils had an intermediate phospholipid composition, but their cholesterol-phospholipid ratio was smaller than that of the other two fractions. Except for an increased percentage of phosphatidalethanolamine in the dystrophic mitochondria, only the composition of the dystrophic microsomes differed from normal by containing less lecithin but more total ethanolamine phospholipid, phosphatidal-ethanolamine, sphingomyelin, and cholesterol.

No significant differences were found in the fatty acid composition of neutral lipid extracts from normal and dystrophic preparations, but there was a significant decrease in the percentage of 22:6 in phospholipids from both dystrophic whole muscle and microsomes (-25% and -37%, respectively), whereas the 20:4 content was unaltered. By contrast, the percentages of 18:0 and total fatty aldehyde increased significantly. Phospholipid extracts from all dystrophic samples showed a significant decrease in 16:0 and an increase in 18:1 as compared with the normal.

Supplementary key words muscular dystrophy • neutral lipids • cholesterol • phospholipids • fatty acids and aldehydes • plasmalogens

Submitted on December 8, 1969
Accepted on June 24, 1970

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