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. 1972 Feb;126(4):823–835. doi: 10.1042/bj1260823

Exchange of phospholipids between brain membranes in vitro

E K Miller 1, R M C Dawson 1
PMCID: PMC1178492  PMID: 5073236

Abstract

1. When unlabelled mitochondria from guinea-pig brain were incubated with a 32P-labelled microsomal fraction from brain there was a transfer of phospholipid to the mitochondria, which could not be accounted for by an aggregation of microsomes and mitochondria or an exchange with microsomes contaminating the mitochondria. Under similar circumstances there was a transfer of phospholipid from 32P-labelled mitochondria to microsomes, indicating that the process was one of exchange. 2. The transfer from microsomes was greatly stimulated by a non-dialysable heat-labile macromolecular component in the brain supernatant fraction but not by the concentration of the particulate fractions. 3. Phospholipid-exchange processes occurred most readily between pH7 and 7.5 and were inhibited by the presence of myelin and on the addition of lysophosphatidylcholine. 4. The rates of transfer of individual phospholipids from brain microsomes to mitochondria were similar. 5. 32P-labelled microsomes could slowly donate phospholipid to the isolated synaptosomal (nerve-ending) fraction but the phospholipids of the myelin fraction did not exchange. 6. Subfractionation of the synaptosomal fraction after [32P]phospholipid transfer showed that the mitochondria were most actively labelled during the incubation. All of the isolated individual synaptosomal membranes were capable of acquiring phospholipid on incubation with a 32P-labelled brain supernatant fraction although a greater percentage was again exchanged by the mitochondrial fraction.

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