Slein, Milton W. (Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md.), and Gerald F. Logan, Jr. Characterization of the phospholipases of Bacillus cereus and their effects on erythrocytes, bone, and kidney cells. J. Bacteriol. 90:69-81. 1965.-Culture filtrates of Bacillus cereus contain phospholipases that split phosphoryl choline, phosphoryl ethanolamine, and phosphoryl inositol from the phospholipids phosphatidyl ...

It is now apparent that the nutritional requirement for myoinositol in many cells is related to its participation as a building unit of myo-inositol-containing phospholipids (phosphoinositides). This explains why Eastcott (1)) in her classic work, found that all the myo-inositol taken up from the medium by growing yeast could be recovered by acid hydrolysis of the cells. The role of phosphoinos...

A method is described for the rapid isolation of phosphatidyl inositol from soybean phosphatides (Asolectin). The product is obtained pure as the crystalline sodium salt.

Brain cephalin (1) has been the name given to a fraction of brain phosphatides characterized by its solubility in ether and insolubility in ethyl alcohol. For many years it was assumed to be a single compound with the chemical structure of diacylglycerylphosphoryl ethanolamine. Work from this laboratory has shown brain cephalin to be a mixture (2). From it were separated two pure phosphatides; ...

Membranous material was prepared from Ehrlich ascites carcinoma cells by tonal centrifugation. The distribution of fatty acids among the individual neutral lipid and phospholipid classes isolated from the membrane preparation was determined. Survey electron microscopy indicated that the preparations consisted of vesicles of rough surfaced endoplasmic reticulum, lysosomal-like structures, virus-...

Homogenates and particulate fractions of goldfish brain incorporated radioactivity from y-[B*P]ATP selectively into acidic phospholipids during brief periods of incubation. Phosphatidate and lysophosphatidate became strongly labelled and activity was also found in phosphatidyl inositol phosphate and in phosphatidyl inositol diphosphate. When tetraphenylborate (a K+-complexing agent) was added, ...

1. The phosphatidylinositol-exchange protein from bovine brain was used to determine to what extent phosphatidylinositol in rat liver microsomal membranes is available for transfer. 2. The microsomal membranes used in the transfer reaction contained either phosphatidyl[2-3H]inositol or 32P-labelled phospholipid. The 32P-labelled microsomal membranes were isolated from rat liver after an intrape...

When isolated hepatocytes are incubated with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C, three cell-surface enzymes show markedly different behaviour. Most of the alkaline phosphatase is released at very low values of phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis, whereas further phosphatidylinositol hydrolysis releases only a maximum of about one-third of the 5'-nucleotidase. Alkaline phosphodiesterase I...

Feeding of protein deficient diet is known to alter the transmembrane signalling in brain of rat by reducing total protein kinase C (PKC) activity. Phospholipid metabolism regulates the activation of PKC through generation of second messengers and the extent of PKC activation accordingly influences the magnitude of phosphorylation of its endogenous substrate proteins. Thus it was speculated tha...