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. 1992 Nov;100(3):1527–1535. doi: 10.1104/pp.100.3.1527

Phosphatidylcholine Synthesis in Castor Bean Endosperm 1

Free Bases as Intermediates

Marie-Pascale Prud'homme 1,2, Thomas S Moore Jr 1
PMCID: PMC1075815  PMID: 16653153

Abstract

The methylation steps in the biosynthesis of phosphatidylcholine by castor bean (Ricinus communis L.) endosperm have been studied by pulse-chase labeling. Endosperm halves were incubated with [methyl-14C]S-adenosyl-l-methionine, [2-14C]ethanolamine, [14C]ethanolamine phosphate, or [14C]serine phosphate. The kinetics of appearance were followed in the free, phospho-, and phosphatidyl-bases. The initial methylation utilized ethanolamine as a substrate to form methylethanolamine, which was then converted to dimethylethanolamine, choline, and phosphomethylethanolamine. Subsequent methylations occurred at the phospho-base and, to a lesser extent, the phosphatidyl-base levels, after which the radioactivity either remained constant or decreased in these compounds and accumulated in phosphatidylcholine. Although the precursors tested did support the synthesis of choline, the kinetics of the labeling make them unlikely to be the major sources of free choline to be utilized for the nucleotide pathway. A model with two pools of choline is proposed, and the implications of these results for the pathways leading to phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis are discussed.

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