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Journal of Lipid Research, Vol. 41, 1145-1153, July 2000
Copyright © 2000 by Lipid Research, Inc.

Original Article

Increase in fragmented phosphatidylcholine in blood plasma by oxidative stress

Correspondence to: Michael Schlame

Oxidatively modified phospholipids with fragmented acyl chains have attracted much interest because of their proinflammatory activity and their potential involvement in atherosclerosis. They can be formed in vitro by free radical treatment of unsaturated phospholipids but it is not known under which conditions they accumulate in vivo. We assayed one species of fragmented phosphatidylcholine (PC) in human blood plasma by high performance liquid chromatography after precolumn derivatization with chloromethylanthracene. Structural analysis suggested that fragmented PC was a diacyl species with a palmitoyl group and a short oxidized residue, which most likely had four carbons. The concentration of fragmented PC was higher in elderly individuals with coronary heart disease than in young healthy controls. Smoking one cigarette acutely increased the concentration of fragmented PC in healthy adults. Fragmented PC also increased in the reperfusion period after treatment with cardiopulmonary bypass. The increase coincided with a surge of circulating neutrophils. In rats, the plasma concentration of fragmented PC was elevated by vitamin E deficiency and exposure to high oxygen.

The data demonstrate that fragmented PC increases in blood plasma in response to various forms of oxidative stress.—Frey, B., R. Haupt, S. Alms, G. Holzmann, T. Konig, H. Kern, W. Kox, B. Rustow, and M. Schlame. Increase in fragmented phosphatidylcholine in blood plasma by oxidative stress. J. Lipid Res. 2000. 41: 1145–1153.

Supplementary key words: aging, antioxidants, atherosclerosis, cardiopulmonary bypass, cigarette smoke, peroxidation, phospholipid

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