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. 1971 Aug;123(5):837–844. doi: 10.1042/bj1230837

The role of the plasma membrane in fatty acid uptake by rat liver parenchymal cells

J D Wright 1, C Green 1
PMCID: PMC1177084  PMID: 5124388

Abstract

1. Suspensions of isolated rat liver parenchymal cells incorporate [14C]palmitic acid into glycerides at about 40% of the rate obtained with liver slices. 2. At short time-intervals most of the incorporation is into phosphatidylcholine and this is recovered mainly in the plasma-membrane fraction. 3. At later times (5min to 2h) the [14C]palmitic acid is mainly found in triglyceride, but this is not recovered in the plasma-membrane fraction. 4. Addition of lysophosphatidylcholine increases incorporation of palmitic acid into both phosphatidylcholine and triglyceride, with maximum effect at about 0.1mm. 5. In vivo, 1min after injection of [14C]palmitic acid, radioactive phosphatidylcholine is concentrated in the plasma-membrane fraction, but the proportion present in this fraction declines rapidly. 6. The phosphatidylcholine of the plasma-membrane fraction has, at 1min after injection, a specific radioactivity 30-fold greater than that of the whole tissue. 7. This phosphatidylcholine reaches its maximum specific radioactivity before the tissue phosphatidic acid or diglyceride. 8. The phosphatidylcholine of the plasma-membrane fraction has a very rapid turnover. 9. It is proposed that the rapid formation of phospholipids in the plasma membrane is by acylation of their lyso-derivatives and the role of this process in fatty acid uptake is discussed.

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