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Diacylglycerol kinase ? and sphingomyelin synthase-related protein functionally interact via their sterile ? motif domains.

ABSTRACT: The ? isozyme of diacylglycerol kinase (DGK?) plays critical roles in lipid signaling by converting diacylglycerol (DG) to phosphatidic acid (PA). We previously demonstrated that DGK? preferably phosphorylates palmitic acid (16:0)- and/or palmitoleic acid (16:1)-containing DG molecular species, but not arachidonic acid (20:4)-containing DG species, which are recognized as DGK substrates derived from phosphatidylinositol turnover, in high glucose-stimulated myoblasts. However, little is known about the origin of these DG molecular species. DGK? and two DG-generating enzymes, sphingomyelin synthase (SMS) 1 and SMS-related protein (SMSr), contain a sterile ? motif domain (SAMD). In this study, we found that SMSr-SAMD, but not SMS1-SAMD, co-immunoprecipitates with DGK?-SAMD. Full-length DGK? co-precipitated with full-length SMSr more strongly than with SMS1. However, SAMD-deleted variants of SMSr and DGK? interacted only weakly with full-length DGK? and SMSr, respectively. These results strongly suggested that DGK? interacts with SMSr through their respective SAMDs. To determine the functional outcomes of the relationship between DGK? and SMSr, we used LC-MS/MS to investigate whether overexpression of DGK? and/or SMSr in COS-7 cells alters the levels of PA species. We found that SMSr overexpression significantly enhances the production of 16:0- or 16:1-containing PA species such as 14:0/16:0-, 16:0/16:0-, 16:0/18:1-, and/or 16:1/18:1-PA in DGK?-overexpressing COS-7 cells. Moreover, SMSr enhanced DGK? activity via their SAMDs in vitro Taken together, these results strongly suggest that SMSr is a candidate DG-providing enzyme upstream of DGK? and that the two enzymes represent a new pathway independent of phosphatidylinositol turnover.

SUBMITTER: Murakami C

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7062193 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Diacylglycerol kinase δ and sphingomyelin synthase-related protein functionally interact via their sterile α motif domains.

Murakami Chiaki C Hoshino Fumi F Sakai Hiromichi H Hayashi Yasuhiro Y Yamashita Atsushi A Sakane Fumio F

The Journal of biological chemistry 20200124 10

The δ isozyme of diacylglycerol kinase (DGKδ) plays critical roles in lipid signaling by converting diacylglycerol (DG) to phosphatidic acid (PA). We previously demonstrated that DGKδ preferably phosphorylates palmitic acid (16:0)- and/or palmitoleic acid (16:1)-containing DG molecular species, but not arachidonic acid (20:4)-containing DG species, which are recognized as DGK substrates derived from phosphatidylinositol turnover, in high glucose-stimulated myoblasts. However, little is known abo ...[more]

PMID: 31980461

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