Journal of Lipid Research, Vol 29, 325-334, Copyright © 1988 by Lipid Research, Inc.

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Plasmalogen biosynthesis in peroxisomal disorders: fatty alcohol versus alkylglycerol precursors

G Schrakamp, CG Schalkwijk, RB Schutgens, RJ Wanders, JM Tager and H van den Bosch
Laboratory of Biochemistry, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

In recent years a growing number of inherited diseases have been recognized to originate from an impairment in one or more peroxisomal functions. Since it is well established that the first two steps in the biosynthesis of plasmalogens proceed in peroxisomes, we studied the biosynthesis of plasmalogens in cultured skin fibroblasts from patients with different peroxisomal and related disorders. When de novo plasmalogen biosynthesis was studied by growing the cells in the presence of [14C]hexadecanol, impaired plasmalogen biosynthesis was found in rhizomelic chondrodysplasia punctata, cerebrohepatorenal (Zellweger) syndrome, neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy, and infantile Refsum disease. In all these cases, alkyl-acyl phospholipids, the precursors of plasmalogens, did not accumulate and 1-O-[9,10- 3H2]octadecylglycerol was converted into plasmalogens with equal efficiency as in controls. This indicated that impaired de novo plasmalogen biosynthesis as measured by [14C]hexadecanol incorporation was due to a deficient formation of the glycero-ether bond. Using this procedure, normal de novo plasmalogen biosynthesis was found in X- linked adrenoleukodystrophy, adrenomyeloneuropathy, X-linked chondrodysplasia punctata, adult Refsum disease, as well as in heterozygotes for Zellweger syndrome and infantile Refsum disease. The data have indicated that the average extent of the deficiency in glycero-ether bond formation is different in Zellweger syndrome, chondrodysplasia punctata, neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy, and infantile Refsum disease.
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