Variation of choline-substituted lipid metabolism in doxorubicin-resistant leukemia cells

Autor: G Dubois, H Tapiero
Rok vydání: 1992
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Zdroj: Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 46:485-489
ISSN: 0753-3322
DOI: 10.1016/0753-3322(92)90006-s
Popis: In adriamycin-resistant murine (FLC) and human (K562) leukemia cells, phosphatidyicholine increases and phosphatidylethanolamine decreases compared to adriamycin-sensitive lines. This change is due to an increase in phosphatidylethanolamine methylation. The choline pathway of phosphatidyicholine biosynthesis is also disturbed in resistant cells with a blocking step of CDP-phosphocholine transferase and a decrease in sphingomyelinase activity. These changes in phospholipid metabolism are suggested to be responsible for the changes in membrane fluidity reported previously (Tapiero et al , 1986) for resistant cells. phosphatidyicholine / sphingomyelin / MDR + leukemia cells
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