PMID: 6401722Jan 25, 1983Paper

The uptake of dietary polyprenols and their modification to active dolichols by the rat liver.

The Journal of Biological Chemistry
T Chojnacki, G Dallner

Abstract

The uptake of dietary polyprenols was studied by administering, through a gastric tube, labeled alpha-saturated and alpha-unsaturated polyprenols, with 11 and 19 isoprene residues. The lipids appeared in all organs but mostly in the liver after 16 h where those with 11 isoprenes were in much higher concentration than the prenols with 19 isoprene residues; the distribution in the liver was studied in detail. About 45% of the polyprenols taken up were esterified with fatty acids. A part of the radioactivity (6-30%) appeared in the supernatant but mostly in water-soluble form. Among subcellular fractions, the highest uptake was found in the outer mitochondrial membranes. After 16 h, both 11- and 19-residue alpha-unsaturated injected prenols were present to a large extent as alpha-saturated compounds in liver homogenates and subcellular fractions. About 10-15% of the lipids were phosphorylated. The results suggest that a part of the dolichol phosphate pool, participating in glycosylation reactions, may derive from dietary unsaturated polyprenols which after uptake can be reduced and phosphorylated.

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