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. 1970 Jan;49(1):128–139. doi: 10.1172/JCI106211

Pathways of fatty acid metabolism in human platelets

Phin Cohen 1,2, Arie Derksen 1,2, Hendrik van den Bosch 1,2
PMCID: PMC322451  PMID: 5409801

Abstract

The metabolic fate of 14C-labeled fatty acids which have been incubated with human platelets, has been traced. The following has been shown. (a) Intact platelets have a considerable capacity to oxidize fatty acids. (b) When tracer amounts of four of the most common fatty acids in normal plasma were incubated with platelets, each showed a distinctive pattern of uptake among neutral lipids and phospholipids. With regard to the latter, it was shown that these distribution patterns were, in most cases, similar to those of the fatty acids found in natural platelet phospholipids. (c) By increasing the time of incubation or the amount of added oleic acid, the distribution of oleic acid uptake between lecithin and other phosphoglycerides was altered so that a larger share was incorporated into the latter. (d) The effects of added lysolecithin or lysoethanolamine phosphoglycerides on oleic acid incorporation into platelet phosphoglycerides are quite variable. At low concentrations, added lysolecithin functions chiefly as a reaction partner for oleic acid. Added adenosine triphosphate and CoASH augment the incorporation of oleic acid into lecithin over a wide range of added lysolecithin (12.5-500 μmoles/liter). At higher concentrations of added lysolecithin, in the absence of ATP and CoASH, oleic acid incorporation into lecithin is considerably reduced. Also, added lysolecithin and lysoethanolamine phosphoglycerides, in the absence of ATP and CoASH, are able, at certain concentrations, to stimulate oleic acid incorporation into all except the serine phosphoglycerides. (e) Platelets appear to have a de novo pathway for renewal of lecithin.

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