The effect of unsaturated fatty acids on membrane composition and signal transduction in HT-29 human colon cancer cells

Cancer Letters
A B AwadC S Fink

Abstract

The objective of the present study was to investigate the effect of membrane fatty acid (FA) composition on the activity of phospholipase C (PLC) in HT-29 human colon cancer cells. The membrane FA composition was altered by supplementing cultured cells with FAs of different composition. The FAs were stearic acid (18:0; SA), gamma linolenic acid (18:3 omega 6; gamma LnA); alpha linolenic acid (18:3 omega 3; alpha LnA;); eicosapentaenoic acid (20:5 omega 3; EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (22:6 omega 3; DHA). The fatty acids were supplemented as a FA/BSA complex. Cells supplemented with SA served as the control. Tumor growth was followed by counting the number of cells in culture. The results indicate that polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) supplementation had no consistent effect on tumor growth from 1 day to another throughout the 15 days of growth. The fatty acid composition of membranes indicates that cells incorporated and modified the supplemented fatty acids by desaturation, elongation and retroconversion. The unsaturation index (UI) of membranes of cells supplemented with EPA and DHA was higher than other groups. PLC activity; measured in the absence of GTP gamma(S) in the assay mixture; was not influenced by membrane FA mod...Continue Reading

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