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Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 26, 104-114, Copyright © 1985 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Subcellular localization of the phospholipases A of rat heart: evidence for a cytosolic phospholipase A1

G Nalbone and KY Hostetler

During myocardial ischemia increased levels of lysoglycerophospholipids have been reported which may be deleterious to myocardial function. Phospholipases are presumed to be important in the regulation of this process. To further quantify and characterize the activity of heart phospholipases, we carried out a systematic analysis of phospholipase A activity in rat heart subcellular fractions isolated by the method of Palmer et al. (J. Biol. Chem. 1972. 262: 8731-8739). Neutral phospholipase A was recovered predominately in the cytosolic (soluble) fraction which represented 46% of recovered activity, while the microsomal and subsarcolemmal mitochondrial fractions represented 15% and 12% of the total recovered activity, respectively. Cytosolic phospholipase A differed from the two principal membrane-bound phospholipases A in its pH dependence and apparent Km for substrate. The cytosolic enzyme had a Km (apparent) for dioleoylphosphatidylcholine of 0.07 mM versus 0.28-0.33 mM for the membrane-associated phospholipases A. Acid phospholipase A activity had a subcellular distribution consistent with a lysosomal localization. Lysophospholipase was found principally in the cytosolic, microsomal, and the subsarcolemmal and interfibrillar mitochondrial fractions where it represented 46, 17, 6.3, and 6.9% of the recovered activity, respectively. The positional specificity of the respective phospholipases was assessed. This analysis was complicated by the fact that in heart, lysophospholipase has an observed Vmax 3.6- to 4.5-fold greater than that of phospholipase A in the various subcellular fractions. Equations were derived to obtain corrected values for the activity of phospholipases A1 and A2. Using this method we found that the cytosolic and lysosomal fractions contained phospholipase A1, while the mitochondrial fractions contained primarily phospholipase A2. In heart microsomes, the positional specificity of phospholipase A could not be determined because lysophospholipase activity was very high and lysophosphatidylcholine did not accumulate.
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