LPGAT1 controls the stearate/palmitate ratio of phosphatidylethanolamine and phosphatidylcholine in sn-1 specific remodeling
Yang Xu, Paighton C. Miller, Colin K. L. Phoon, Mindong Ren, Titli Nargis, Sujith Rajan, M. Mahmood Hussain, Michael Schlame
Abstract
Most mammalian phospholipids contain a saturated fatty acid at the sn-1 carbon atom and an unsaturated fatty acid at the sn-2 carbon atom of the glycerol backbone group. While the sn-2 linked chains undergo extensive remodeling by deacylation and reacylation (Lands cycle), it is not known how the composition of saturated fatty acids is controlled at the sn-1 position. Here, we demonstrate that lysophosphatidylglycerol acyltransferase 1 (LPGAT1) is an sn-1 specific acyltransferase that controls the stearate/palmitate ratio of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and phosphatidylcholine. Bacterially expressed murine LPGAT1 transferred saturated acyl-CoAs specifically into the sn-1 position of lysophosphatidylethanolamine (LPE) rather than lysophosphatidylglycerol and preferred stearoyl-CoA over palmitoyl-CoA as the substrate. In addition, genetic ablation of LPGAT1 in mice abolished 1-LPE:stearoyl-CoA acyltransferase activity and caused a shift from stearate to palmitate species in PE, dimethyl-PE, and phosphatidylcholine. Lysophosphatidylglycerol acyltransferase 1 KO mice were leaner and had a shorter life span than their littermate controls. Finally, we show that total lipid synthesis was reduced in isolated hepatocytes of LPGAT1 knockout mice. Thus, we conclude that LPGAT1 is an sn-1 specific LPE acyltransferase that controls the stearate/palmitate homeostasis of PE and the metabolites of the PE methylation pathway and that LPGAT1 plays a central role in the regulation of lipid biosynthesis with implications for body fat content and longevity. Most mammalian phospholipids contain a saturated fatty acid at the sn-1 carbon atom and an unsaturated fatty acid at the sn-2 carbon atom of the glycerol backbone group. While the sn-2 linked chains undergo extensive remodeling by deacylation and reacylation (Lands cycle), it is not known how the composition of saturated fatty acids is controlled at the sn-1 position. Here, we demonstrate that lysophosphatidylglycerol acyltransferase 1 (LPGAT1) is an sn-1 specific acyltransferase that controls the stearate/palmitate ratio of phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and phosphatidylcholine. Bacterially expressed murine LPGAT1 transferred saturated acyl-CoAs specifically into the sn-1 position of lysophosphatidylethanolamine (LPE) rather than lysophosphatidylglycerol and preferred stearoyl-CoA over palmitoyl-CoA as the substrate. In addition, genetic ablation of LPGAT1 in mice abolished 1-LPE:stearoyl-CoA acyltransferase activity and caused a shift from stearate to palmitate species in PE, dimethyl-PE, and phosphatidylcholine. Lysophosphatidylglycerol acyltransferase 1 KO mice were leaner and had a shorter life span than their littermate controls. Finally, we show that total lipid synthesis was reduced in isolated hepatocytes of LPGAT1 knockout mice. Thus, we conclude that LPGAT1 is an sn-1 specific LPE acyltransferase that controls the stearate/palmitate homeostasis of PE and the metabolites of the PE methylation pathway and that LPGAT1 plays a central role in the regulation of lipid biosynthesis with implications for body fat content and longevity. Phospholipids contain two fatty acids attached to the sn-1 and sn-2 carbon atoms of the glycerol group. In general, the sn-1 position is occupied by saturated fatty acids, primarily palmitate (C16:0) or stearate (C18:0). In contrast, the sn-2 position contains predominantly unsaturated fatty acids, the composition of which is regulated by fatty acid remodeling. The canonical remodeling pathway, widely known as the Lands cycle, starts with the removal of the sn-2 linked fatty acid (phospholipase A2) and is completed by the transfer of another fatty acid from acyl-CoA (acyltransferase). The cycle balances the composition of unsaturated fatty acids in the sn-2 position (1Lands W.E.M. Stories about acyl chains.Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 2000; 1483: 1-14Google Scholar), which is thought to be critical for the physical properties, the metabolic fate, and the cellular function of phospholipids (2Hishikawa D. Hashidate T. Shimizu T. Shindou H. Diversity and function of membrane glycerophospholipids generated by the remodeling pathway in mammalian cells.J. Lipid Res. 2014; 55: 799-807Google Scholar, 3Yamashita A. Hayashi Y. Nemoto-Sasaki Y. Ito M. Oka S. Tanikawa T. Waku K. Sugiura T. 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Chem. 2019; 294: 10146-10159Google Scholar). However, sn-1 remodeling is not nearly as well established as sn-2 remodeling. In particular, it is not known whether sn-1 remodeling is a widespread phenomenon among phospholipids and whether it has functional significance. Here, we establish lysophosphatidylglycerol acyltransferase 1 (LPGAT1) as a pivotal sn-1 remodeling enzyme and show that it is of central importance for the regulation of lipid metabolism. Lysophosphatidylglycerol acyltransferase 1 was first identified as acyltransferase based on sequence homology and expressed in insect cells, which suggested that lysophosphatidylglycerol (LPG) and stearoyl-CoA are the preferred substrates. This led to the assumption that LPGAT1 remodels phosphatidylglycerol (PG), an intermediate on the cardiolipin (CL) pathway, hence the name LPG acyltransferase 1 (12Yang Y. Cao J. Shi Y. Identification and characterization of a gene encoding human LPGAT1, an endoplasmic reticulum-associated lysophosphatidylglycerol acyltransferase.J. Biol. Chem. 2004; 279: 55866-55874Google Scholar). However, a number of contradictions have emerged. First, LPGAT1 is located in the endoplasmic reticulum (12Yang Y. Cao J. Shi Y. Identification and characterization of a gene encoding human LPGAT1, an endoplasmic reticulum-associated lysophosphatidylglycerol acyltransferase.J. Biol. Chem. 2004; 279: 55866-55874Google Scholar) whereas PG is formed and converted to CL in the inner mitochondrial membrane (13Hostetler K.Y. van den Bosch H. Subcellular and submitochondrial localization of the biosynthesis of cardiolipin and related phospholipids in rat liver.Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1972; 260: 380-386Google Scholar). Second, the preference for saturated acyl-CoA’s of LPGAT1 (12Yang Y. Cao J. Shi Y. Identification and characterization of a gene encoding human LPGAT1, an endoplasmic reticulum-associated lysophosphatidylglycerol acyltransferase.J. Biol. Chem. 2004; 279: 55866-55874Google Scholar) does not match the species composition of either PG or CL (14Zhang X. Zhang J. Sun H. Liu X. Zheng Y. Xu D. Wang J. Jia D. Han X. Liu F. Nie J. Shi Y. Defective phosphatidylglycerol remodeling mitochondrial to Mol. 2019; Scholar). Finally, a LPGAT1 KO model was In of LPGAT1 caused in the species composition of PG and CL in phospholipids (14Zhang X. Zhang J. Sun H. Liu X. Zheng Y. Xu D. Wang J. Jia D. Han X. Liu F. Nie J. Shi Y. Defective phosphatidylglycerol remodeling mitochondrial to Mol. 2019; Scholar). as to whether LPGAT1 is involved in the remodeling of is the is that have suggested a LPGAT1 and metabolism. Lysophosphatidylglycerol acyltransferase 1 is regulated by the that controls the transfer J. J. J. C. and in mice by lipid synthesis and Scholar) and in the LPGAT1 gene are with in S. A. C. Evidence for a role of LPGAT1 in and body fat in 21: Scholar). and of LPGAT1 in mice the of and the fat content of liver (14Zhang X. Zhang J. Sun H. Liu X. Zheng Y. Xu D. Wang J. Jia D. Han X. Liu F. Nie J. Shi Y. Defective phosphatidylglycerol remodeling mitochondrial to Mol. 2019; Scholar, Y. H. S. R. acyltransferase plays an role in Lipid Res. 2010; Scholar). Lysophosphatidylglycerol acyltransferase 1 was to have acyltransferase which in the to metabolism Y. H. S. R. acyltransferase plays an role in Lipid Res. 2010; Scholar). However, it is to that LPGAT1 with and two it is of the the acyltransferase activity of LPGAT1 is to with substrates. In the function of LPGAT1 is that LPGAT1 is to acyltransferases and acyltransferase activity (12Yang Y. Cao J. Shi Y. Identification and characterization of a gene encoding human LPGAT1, an endoplasmic reticulum-associated lysophosphatidylglycerol acyltransferase.J. Biol. Chem. 2004; 279: 55866-55874Google Scholar, Y. H. S. R. acyltransferase plays an role in Lipid Res. 2010; Scholar) the of LPGAT1 have not been Several have suggested an of LPGAT1 in metabolism (14Zhang X. Zhang J. Sun H. Liu X. Zheng Y. Xu D. Wang J. Jia D. Han X. Liu F. Nie J. Shi Y. Defective phosphatidylglycerol remodeling mitochondrial to Mol. 2019; Scholar, J. J. J. C. and in mice by lipid synthesis and Scholar, S. A. C. Evidence for a role of LPGAT1 in and body fat in 21: Scholar, Y. H. S. R. acyltransferase plays an role in Lipid Res. 2010; Scholar) is known about the Thus, we to the function of LPGAT1 and that it is an sn-1 specific acyltransferase involved in the stearate/palmitate functional caused by LPGAT1 we mice from a mice were at the ratio and body at the of However, their body fat content was reduced by about has been in another LPGAT1 KO model it was with a in body (14Zhang X. Zhang J. Sun H. Liu X. Zheng Y. Xu D. Wang J. Jia D. Han X. Liu F. Nie J. Shi Y. Defective phosphatidylglycerol remodeling mitochondrial to Mol. 2019; Scholar). mice a in which reduced their life span to about we in to mice. of in the suggested that were to their which was supported by of the by The in the of LPGAT1 in human and and that it is with (12Yang Y. Cao J. Shi Y. Identification and characterization of a gene encoding human LPGAT1, an endoplasmic reticulum-associated lysophosphatidylglycerol acyltransferase.J. Biol. Chem. 2004; 279: 55866-55874Google Scholar). In the was in whereas in mice the were in and suggested a role of LPGAT1 in liver metabolism (14Zhang X. Zhang J. Sun H. Liu X. Zheng Y. Xu D. Wang J. Jia D. Han X. Liu F. Nie J. Shi Y. Defective phosphatidylglycerol remodeling mitochondrial to Mol. 2019; Scholar, J. J. J. C. and in mice by lipid synthesis and Scholar, Y. H. S. R. acyltransferase plays an role in Lipid Res. 2010; Scholar), we the of LPGAT1 on the the lipid composition and the species composition While the of lipid not in to LPGAT1 we in the species composition of phospholipids the lipid we the by of lipid a to LPGAT1 to phosphatidylethanolamine to phosphatidylcholine and to Thus, the of species by LPGAT1 were with the PE methylation pathway In contrast, the composition of PG and CL the composition of and in to LPGAT1 The PE methylation pathway by PE The enzyme PE first into into and into D.E. methylation in to Biophys. Acta. 2014; Scholar). that LPGAT1 the of and species and the of and species in of the PE methylation species of PE, and the that a in stearate and an in palmitate in to LPGAT1 a the stearate/palmitate ratio in PE, and and in their In contrast, and and from the species composition were in acid and and a to LPGAT1 as the liver In of LPGAT1 led to of stearate species by palmitate species in phospholipids of the PE methylation pathway, PE, and This in the species composition was in and was with the of metabolic body and not on the of LPGAT1, we the of the First, we expressed murine LPGAT1 in insect cells and the the enzyme was active with lysophosphatidylethanolamine (LPE) than with activity with activity with and However, the of LPGAT1 in insect cells was and not from to In to a enzyme we expressed murine LPGAT1 to in a known to of we that be in and to on However, we were to acyltransferase In to an active we the which to of the we of total cells we to an enzyme that was in the the method E. with an acyltransferase activity that was than that of the of we the we a acyltransferase activity with LPE than with LPG or and activity with acid and that LPGAT1 palmitate and fatty acids to the sn-1 we whether LPGAT1 has we the activity of with the and The enzyme had an about activity with suggesting that LPGAT1 to with the sn-1 group as and a activity with the than the their were to the activity with we the acyl of by the and The a preference for saturated acyl-CoAs and a activity with stearoyl-CoA than with palmitoyl-CoA the function of LPGAT1, we the of LPGAT1 on the acyltransferase activity in liver we that microsomes had an about acyltransferase activity with than with of LPGAT1 activity with either suggesting that LPGAT1 is the acyltransferase of liver microsomes LPGAT1 abolished acyltransferase it had on acyltransferase confirming the of the enzyme Finally, we the of LPGAT1 on acyltransferase with and that microsomes and at a than were by LPGAT1 reacylation of with to the of was not by LPGAT1 of whether or was the In demonstrate that LPGAT1 is an LPE acyltransferase with preference for stearoyl-CoA and the sn-1 group. it for of the LPE acyltransferase activity of liver The of LPGAT1 and the of LPGAT1 on the murine that the enzyme in the remodeling of saturated fatty acids at the sn-1 position of PE with for the of the PE methylation we the of LPGAT1 on the lipid by hepatocytes with and the of by have shown that the of be to the of synthesis of the glycerol backbone of lipid species M. Xu Y. H. M. to the of in and Lipid Res. Scholar). we that LPGAT1 reduced the of synthesis of as and However, the was not specific to as the synthesis of the species as well and the synthesis of and at a of LPGAT1 on lipid While the synthesis of PE and about the and which are of the sn-2 remodeling pathway, were not are with the that LPGAT1 is not involved in the Lands of the that LPGAT1 reduced the synthesis of and the synthesis of and PG LPGAT1 had an extensive on lipid we whether it the first which is the of the of species is we were to the two of and Y. H. G. D. Waku K. of the species of and in rat liver microsomes Biophys. Acta. Scholar), and their in of species that LPGAT1 reduced the synthesis of in hepatocytes However, LPGAT1 not in isolated liver microsomes with and palmitoyl-CoA stearoyl-CoA This suggested that was reduced in the of the acyltransferase that LPGAT1 was not involved in of the acyl transfer that converted into In that LPGAT1 the of lipid biosynthesis in While the of phenomenon to be the a central role of LPGAT1 in the cellular of lipid metabolism. and stearate are the two saturated fatty acids linked to the sn-1 carbon atoms of mammalian phospholipid species formed by synthesis contain palmitate and stearate than species L.B.M. Samborski R.W. Vance D.E. Evidence that remodeling of the fatty acids of phosphatidylcholine is regulated in isolated rat hepatocytes and involves both the sn-1 and sn-2 positions.Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 1991; 1085: 184-190Google Scholar, Y. H. G. D. Waku K. of the species of and in rat liver microsomes Biophys. Acta. 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In we LPGAT1 as the acyltransferase for the postulated sn-1 remodeling and that it in with a to be identified phospholipase A1 show that LPGAT1 is an sn-1 specific acyltransferase with a preference for saturated fatty acids over unsaturated fatty acids and a preference for stearoyl-CoA over with the preference for we demonstrate that genetic ablation of LPGAT1 in a in the ratio in The that LPGAT1 in with a phospholipase A1 is supported by the accumulation of unsaturated LPE species in mice discovery a number of First, it the whether a specific phospholipase A1 is involved in the postulated sn-1 remodeling or whether to Thus, a be to the that with Second, the of lipid biosynthesis in mice is and the of how PE remodeling controls phospholipid be to determine whether LPGAT1 lipid the regulation of enzyme or or whether the of LPGAT1 have an on lipid it has to be whether PE methylation or have role in the regulation of lipid LPGAT1 KO the ratio of LPGAT1 not have acyltransferase we that PE is converted to by the PE methylation In of we that LPGAT1 had the on the methylation pathway intermediate as it had on PE and how LPGAT1 is linked to the PE methylation pathway that both LPGAT1 (14Zhang X. 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