Structural Lipids in Membranes:- Some Phospholipids Have Ether-Linked Fatty Acids

Some animal tissues and some unicellular organisms are rich in ether lipids, in which one of the two acyl chains is attached to glycerol in ether, rather than ester, link age. The ether-linked chain may be saturated, as in the alkyl ether lipids, or may contain a double bond between C-1 and C-2, as in plasmalogens (Fig. 10–9). Vertebrate heart tissue is uniquely enriched in ether lipids; about half of the heart phospholipids are plasmalogens. The membranes of halophilic bacteria, ciliated protists, and certain invertebrates also contain high proportions of

FIGURE 10–8 Glycerophospholipids. The common glycerophospho lipids are diacylglycerols linked to head-group alcohols through a phosphodiester bond. Phosphatidic acid, a phosphomonoester, is the parent compound. Each derivative is named for the head-group alcohol (X), with the prefix “phosphatidyl-.” In cardiolipin, two phosphatidic acids share a single glycerol.

ether lipids. The functional significance of ether lipids in these membranes is unknown; perhaps their resistance to the phospholipases that cleave ester-linked fatty acids from membrane lipids is important in some roles. At least one ether lipid, platelet-activating factor, is a potent molecular signal. It is released from leukocytes called basophils and stimulates platelet aggregation and the release of serotonin (a vasoconstrictor) from platelets. It also exerts a variety of effects on liver, smooth muscle, heart, uterine, and lung tissues and plays an important role in inflammation and the allergic response.

FIGURE 10–9 Ether lipids. Plasmalogens have an ether-linked alkenyl chain where most glycerophospholipids have an ester-linked fatty acid (compare Fig. 10–8). Platelet-activating factor has a long ether-linked alkyl chain at C-1 of glycerol, but C-2 is ester-linked to acetic acid, which makes the compound much more water-soluble than most glycerophospholipids and plasmalogens. The head-group alcohol is choline in plasmalogens and in platelet-activating factor.

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