Importance of cholesterol-phospholipid interaction in determining dynamics of normal and abetalipoproteinemia red blood cell membrane

Cell Biophysics
Y BarenholzR J Deckelbaum

Abstract

Acanthocytic red blood cells in patients with abetalipoproteinemia have a decrease membrane fluidity that is associated with increased sphingomyelin/phosphatidylcholine (SM/PC) ratios. Here we describe studies designed to gain better insight into (i) the interrelationship between the composition of lipoprotein and red blood cell membrane in abetalipoproteinemia patients and normal controls; and (ii) how the differences in lipid composition of the red blood cell membrane affect its fluidity. The increased SM/PC ratio found in abetalipoproteinemia plasma high density lipoproteins (HDL) (3 times greater than controls) was paralleled by an increase in this ratio in acanthocytic red cells, but to a lesser degree (almost twice greater than control red cells). Cholesterol/phospholipid mole ratios (C/P) were increased 3-fold in abetalipoproteinemia HDL, but only slightly increased in red cells compared to controls values. As in the controls, 80-85% of abetalipoproteinemia red cell sphingomyelin was found to be in the outer half of the erythrocyte membrane. Membrane fluidity was defined in terms of microviscosity (eta) between 5 and 42 degrees C by the fluorescent polarization of 1,6-diphenylhexatriene (DPH) present in erythrocyte ghost...Continue Reading

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