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- JournalClinical pharmacology and therapeutics. 1981 Sep-; 30(3)-; Journal of the American Medical Association 1972 Nov 27-1981 Feb 27; 222(9)-245(8)
- ArticleTakagi M.J Biochem. 1977 Aug;82(2):455-60.To assess the effect of alteration of membrane structure on the enzymic activities related to phospholipid synthesis in microsomal membrane, the effects of several organic solvents have been studied in an in vitro system, in which the cytoplasmic extract prepared from rat liver incorporated [14C]choline or [14C]CDP-choline into phosphatidycholine (lecithin). The optimum conditions for the incorporation were determined. Among several organic solvents examined, n-alkanes such as n-hexane, n-octane, and n-tetradecane stimulated the incorporation. It was shown that n-alkanes stimulated one of three enzymic steps of lecithin biosynthesis from choline; that is, the formulation of CDP-choline catalyzed by CTP: cholinephosphate cytidyltransferase [EC 2.7.7.15], an enzyme on the microsomal membrane. It was further shown that the same enzyme was also stimulated by preincubation of microsomes in the absence of substrate. It is suggested that alteration of the lipid environment of the microsomal membrane induced by n-alkanes caused activation of this enzymic step.