Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 20, 536-547, Copyright © 1979 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Modification of the fatty acid composition of cultured human fibroblasts

AA Spector, RE Kiser, GM Denning, SW Koh and LE DeBault

The fatty acid composition of human skin fibroblasts grown in 10% dialyzed fetal calf serum can be modified considerably by adding supplemental fatty acids to the culture medium. The degree of modification was dependent on the concentration of added fatty acid over the range tested, 2.5 X 10(-5) to 1 X 10(-4) M. At the higher concentration, the extent of the modifications was as those which can be produced in nonhuman or malignant cell lines. Although the greatest changes were produced in the neutral lipid fraction, the cellular phospholipids also exhibited appreciable modifications. The phospholipids isolated from a microsomal fraction prepared from the cell homogenate exhibited similar changes in fatty acyl composition. These findings indicate that the human fibroblast can tolerate considerable variability in fatty acid composition, even in membrane phospholipids. The triglyceride content of the cells increased when they were grown in the presence of added fatty acids, but the phospholipid and cholesterol content remained unchanged. Growth was not affected by either oleic or linoleic acids, but it was reduced up to 50% when palmitic linolenic, or arachidonic acid was added in concentrations of 5 X 10(-5) M or above. Extensive modifications in phospholipid fatty acid composition also were produced in confluent monolayers of these fibroblasts. This suggest that some membrane lipid turnover occurs even when the cultures are not rapidly growing. Fatty acid modifications also were produced in the commercially available IMR- 90 strain of human lung fibroblasts, suggesting that the ability to tolerate considerable differences in fatty acid composition is not a special property of the skin fibroblast line that was isolated locally.
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