AJP - Endocrinology and Metabolism, Vol 266, Issue 3 E372-E383, Copyright © 1994 by American Physiological Society

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Measurement of fractional lipid synthesis using deuterated water (2H2O) and mass isotopomer analysis

W. N. Lee, S. Bassilian, Z. Guo, D. Schoeller, J. Edmond, E. A. Bergner and L. O. Byerley
Research and Education Institute, Harbor University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, Torrance 90502.

Fractional biosynthesis of palmitate, stearate, and cholesterol was determined with deuterated water (2H2O) using mass isotopomer analysis in Hep G2 and MCA sarcoma cells in culture. The method employed differs from previous ones in that the number of deuterium atoms from 2H2O incorporated into newly synthesized molecules was determined and not assumed. After correction for background natural abundances, the isotopomer distribution due to deuterium incorporation in fatty acids and cholesterol was shown to follow a simple binomial distribution depending on the deuterium enrichment in water (p) and the maximum number of deuterium atoms incorporated per molecule (N). Under a wide range of 2H2O enrichments, N could be determined to be 17 for palmitate, 20 for stearate, and 20 for cholesterol by regression analysis or from a series of consecutive mass isotopomer ratios. The fraction derived from de novo synthesis was given by the ratio of the observed to the theoretical deuterium enrichment, which is the product (N x p). The new synthesized fraction of palmitate and stearate by Hep G2 cells for the length of the experiment was found to be 77 and 65%, respectively. These values were confirmed by experiments with [U-13C]glucose as the precursor. In MCA sarcoma cells grown in lipid-poor medium, the average values for fractional synthesis of palmitate, stearate, and cholesterol were 70, 35, and 70%, respectively. This approach should be generally applicable to the simultaneous determined of fractional synthesis of a number of compounds with either deuterium or 13C tracers. Its application is only limited by the accuracy of mass spectrometric analysis.

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