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Lecture 19/20: Classes of Cellular Lipids and Glycerophospholipid/Sphingolipid Synthesis Flashcards

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What are the 2 mechanisms to synthesize glycerophospholipids from phosphatidic acid?

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  1. Activated diacylglycerol

2. Activated head groups

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What is CDP?

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Cytidine diphosphate

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Describe the synthesis of glycerophospholipids using an activated diacylglycerol.

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  1. Activate the DAG with CDP

2. Head group then attacks the CDP-DAG

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Describe the synthesis of glycerophospholipids using an activated head group.

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  1. Activate the head group with CDP

2. DAG then attacks the CDP-head group

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What mechanism do bacteria, fungi, and mammals use to synthesize cardiolipin? Describe the 4 steps.

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CTP activated DAG:

  1. Phosphatidic acid + CTP = CDP-DAG + PPi
  2. Add glycerol-3-phosphate + dephosphate: phosphatidylglycerol = PG
  3. PG + PG = cardiolipin
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What mechanism do bacteria and fungi use to synthesize phosphatidylserine? Describe the 2 steps.

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CTP activated DAG:

  1. Phosphatidic acid + CTP = CDP-DAG + PPi
  2. CDP-DAG + serine = phosphatidylserine + CMP
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What mechanism do bacteria and fungi use to synthesize phosphatidylethanolamine? Describe the 2 steps.

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CTP activated DAG:

  1. Make phosphatidylserine
  2. PS decarboxylase = CO2 + phosphatidylethanolamine
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What mechanism do bacteria, fungi, and mammals use to synthesize PG? Describe the 3 steps.

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CTP activated DAG:

  1. Phosphatidic acid + CTP = CDP-DAG + PPi
  2. Add glycerol-3-phosphate + dephosphate: phosphatidylglycerol = PG
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What mechanism do fungi and mammals use to synthesize phosphatidylinositol? Describe the 4 steps.

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CTP activated DAG:

  1. Make PG
  2. PG + inositol-4,5-BP = phosphatidylinositol-4,5-BP
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What mechanism do fungi use to synthesize phosphatidylcholine? Describe the 2 steps. What other mammal organ can do this?

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CTP activated DAG:
1. Make phosphatidylethalonamine
2. Methylate it
LIVER!

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What mechanism do mammals use to synthesize phosphatidylcholine? Describe the 1 step.

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Head group activation:

CDP-choline + DAG = phosphatidylcholine

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What mechanism do mammals use to synthesize phosphatidylethanolamine? Describe the 1 step.

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Head group activation:

CDP-ethanolamine + DAG = phosphatidylethanolamine

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What mechanism do mammals use to synthesize phosphatidylserine? Describe the 1 step

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Head-group exchange mechanism:

CDP-serine + PE OR PC = phosphatidylserine

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What is the role of surfactant?

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Reduce surface tension in the alveoli during respiration to allow the alveoli to expand

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What are the 2 major components of surfactant?

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2 glycerophospholipids:

  1. Dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC)
  2. Unsaturated phosphatidylcholine
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When does the fetus produce surfactant?

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35 weeks

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What is respiratory distress syndrome? Treatment?

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Syndrome due to lack of surfactant in premature babies

Treatment: artificial lung surfactant and O2

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What can be measured to understand the maturity of the surfactant being produced by a premature baby? Describe the interpretation of the results.

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Measure L/S ratio = L-phosphatidylcholine/S-sphingomyelin ratio:

  • Normal term pregnancy: >=2
  • 1.5-2: 40% chance of developing respiratory distress syndrome
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What are 2 ether-linked glycerophospholipids? What is the difference with normal glycerophospholipids?

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  1. Plasmalogens
  2. Platelet-activating factor
    They have an ether-linked alkane/alkene chain instead of an FA at position 1
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What are the 2 possible head groups for plasmalogens?

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  1. Choline

2. Ethanolamine

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What are plasmalogens important for? 3 things

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  1. Cardiac muscle tissues
  2. Myelin sheath
  3. Biomarker for metastatic cancers
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Where is the double in plasmalogens? What do we call these molecules?

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Between C1 and C2 of the alkene chain

Vynil ethers

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Describe the composition of the platelet-activating factor. What does the position 2 portion of it allows it do to?

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  1. Ether linked alkane chain at position 1
  2. Acetyl ester at position 2: small group allowing the molecule to circulate and be soluble in blood
  3. Phosphocholine head group at position 3
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What are the 2 roles of platelet activating factor?

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  1. Promotes aggregation of platelets
  2. Promotes serotonin release from platelets for vasoconstriction
  3. Important for inflammation and allergic responses
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How is platelet-activating factor deactivated?

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By removing the acetyl ester at the C2 position

26
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Which one sphingolipid a phospholipid?

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Sphingomyelin (with phosphocholine as a head group)

27
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Describe the 3 steps of sphingolipid synthesis.

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  1. Sphingamine synthesis
  2. Sphingamine + FA-CoA = N-acyl sphinganine (FA added to the amine group of the serine on C2)
  3. Mixed-function oxidase: double bond introduced between C4 and C5 = ceramide
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Describe the 2 steps of sphingamine synthesis. Describe sphingamine.

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  1. Palmitoyl-CoA + serine = β-ketosphingamine

2. β-ketosphingamine + NADPH = sphingamine (C=O reduced to C-OH): 18 C amino alcohol

29
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What is the precursor to all of the sphingolipids?

30
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Where does ceramide synthesis take place?

31
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Where does the synthesis of all sphingolipids from ceramide take place?

32
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Describe the 1 step of cerebroside synthesis.

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Head group activated:

Ceramide + UDP-glucose = glucocerebroside

33
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What are cerebrosides?

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Sphingolipid with sugar head group

34
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Describe the 1 step of sphingomyelin synthesis. What is important to note?

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Head group exchange:

Ceramide + phosphatidylcholine = sphingomyelin (entire phosphatidylcholine is transferred)

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What is the precursor of globosides and gangliosides?

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Glucocerebroside

36
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What is the precursor of sulfatides?

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Galactocerebroside

37
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Describe the 1 step of sulfatide synthesis.

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Galactocerebroside + PAPS (3’-phosphoadenosine-5’-phosphosulfate) = sulfatide (with sulfate group on 3-OH of galactose)

38
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Where are sulfatides found in the body?

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Compose 15% of brain white matter

39
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Describe the 3 steps of globoside synthesis.

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  1. Glucocerebroside + UPD-galactose = lactosyl ceramide
  2. lactosyl ceramide + UDP-sugar = trihexosyl ceramide
  3. tryhexosyl ceramine + UDP-sugar = globoside
40
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Describe the 3 steps of ganglioside synthesis.

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  1. Glucocerebroside + UPD-galactose = lactosyl ceramide
  2. Lactosyl ceramide + sialic acid-CMP = ganglioside
  3. Add sugars in different branches
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What is the nomenclature for naming gangliosides?

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  1. G
  2. # of sialic acids (M=1, D=2, T=3, Q=4)
  3. 5 - # of sugar moieties
42
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What are 2 major roles of glycosphingolipids?

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  1. Blood groups

2. GM1: receptor for cholera toxin in human intestine

43
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What does the inability to synthesize glycosphingolipids lead to?

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Nonviability so no patients are born with this problem

44
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Where does sphingolipid degradation occur? With what?

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Lysosomes with hydrolases

45
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What is the cause of glycolipid storage diseases? Treatment?

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Mutations causing the defect of one of the lysosomic hydrolases responsible for breaking down sphingolipids
Not much can be done as sphingolipids are present in all tissues

46
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What is Tay-Sachs disease caused by? Accumulation of which sphingolipid? What does this form?

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Deficient hexosaminidase A

GM2 accumulation in the lysosome forming an onion like structure that is multilaminar (composed of many bilayers)

47
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What is Gaucher’s disease caused by? Accumulation of which sphingolipid?

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Deficient glucocerebrosidase

Glucocerebroside accumulation

48
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Which glycolipid storage has 2 treatments? What are they?

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Gaucher’s disease:

  1. Enzyme replacement therapy but very expensive
  2. Substrate management
49
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What are the 5 symptoms of glycolipid storage diseases?

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  1. Hepatosplenomegaly
  2. Scoliosis
  3. Corneal opacity
  4. Macular spots on the retina
  5. Neuromuscular issues: ataxia, dystonia, hypotonia, macroglossia
50
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What 2 methods are used to screen for glycolipid storage diseases?

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  1. Genetic screening

2. Enzymatic screening

51
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What does the ether linkage of plasmalogen and platelet-activating factor protect them against?

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  1. ROS

2. Enzyme degradation

52
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Where are glycerophospholipids synthesized?

53
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What are the 7 steps of plasmalogen synthesis?

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  1. Add 1 FA to DHAP
  2. Displacement of C1 FA by a long chain alcohol
  3. Reduction of C2 ketone
  4. Acylation of C2-OH
  5. Hydrolysis of 3’-phosphate
  6. Condensation with activated CDP-ethanolamine or CDP-choline
  7. Double-bond introduction with NADH
54
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How many Cs in the FAs of sphingomyelin?

55
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What is the most common cerebroside?

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Galactocerebroside

56
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What is the usual charge of cerebrosides and globosides?

57
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What is the usual charge of sulfatides?

58
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How are glycosphingolipids synthesized and degraded?

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1 sugar at a time!

59
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What population is at risk for Tay-Sachs disease?

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Ashkenzi Jewish population (1:25 carrier frequency)

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