Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 16, 441-447, Copyright © 1975 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Different populations of pig epidermal cells: isolation and lipid composition

GM Gray and HJ Yardley

Preparations representing populations of (a) basal and spinous cells, (b) granular cells, and (c) stratum corneum cells were obtained by successive treatments of epidermal slices from pig skin with dilute buffered trypsin solutions. Total lipids accounted for about 8% of the cell dry weight in each of the three populations. Phospholipids, which predominated in the basal and spinous cells, accounted for only 21% of the total lipids in the granular cells and less than 0.1% in the stratum corneum. The latter cells contained more cholesterol (23% of total lipid) than either the granular cells (18%) or the basal and spinous cells (8%). The proportion of ceramide was also much higher in the stratum corneum (17%) and granular cells (9%) than in the basal and spinous cells (1%). The relative amounts of glycosphingolipid (glucosylceramide) and cholesteryl sulfate in the total lipids of stratum corneum cells were less than half those in the granular cells and basal and spinous cells. A novel phospholipid was a major component (26% of total) of the phospholipids from granular cells. The compound, which was partially characterized, contained phosphorus, fatty acids, and glycerol (molar ratio 1:3:2) and appeared to be a neutral derivative of phosphatidic acid.
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