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Effect of ethanolamine on choline uptake and incorporation into phosphatidylcholine in human Y79 retinoblastoma cells

MA Yorek, JA Dunlap, AA Spector and BH Ginsberg

The effect of physiological concentrations of ethanolamine on choline uptake and incorporation into phosphatidylcholine was investigated in human Y79 retinoblastoma cells, a multipotential, undifferentiated retinal cell line that has retained many neural characteristics. These cells have a high-affinity uptake system for choline, and the majority of the choline taken up was incorporated into phosphatidylcholine via the CDP-choline pathway. The presence of extracellular ethanolamine significantly decreased high-affinity choline uptake and, subsequently, the amount of choline incorporated into phosphatidylcholine. When 100 mumol/L ethanolamine was added, there was a decrease of about 8% in the phosphatidylcholine content. Ethanolamine had no effect on choline incorporation into phosphatidylcholine, however, once choline was taken up by the cell. The K'M and V'max for high-affinity choline uptake was increased from 0.93 to 9.74 microM and 19.60 to 79.25 pmol/min per mg protein, respectively, by the presence of 25 mumol/L ethanolamine. In contrast, 25 mumol/L choline had no effect on the kinetic parameters of high-affinity ethanolamine uptake. Therefore, the reduction in high- affinity choline transport by ethanolamine apparently is not simply due to competitive inhibition. 2,2-Dimethylethanolamine and 2- methylethanolamine both reduced choline uptake to a greater extent than ethanolamine. However, because these compounds exist at much lower concentrations than ethanolamine, they probably have little physiological influence. These results suggest that changes in ethanolamine concentration within the physiologic range can regulate the synthesis and content of phosphatidylcholine in a neural cell by influencing the uptake of choline.
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