Quantification of free sphingosine in cultured cells by acylation with radioactive acetic anhydride - PubMed (original) (raw)
. 1994 Nov 1;222(2):489-94.
doi: 10.1006/abio.1994.1522.
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Quantification of free sphingosine in cultured cells by acylation with radioactive acetic anhydride
H Ohta et al. Anal Biochem. 1994.
Abstract
A simple and sensitive method for quantification of sphingosine in cellular lipid extracts was developed. The assay is based on quantitative conversion of sphingosine to N-[3H]acetylated sphingosine ([3H]C2-ceramide) by N-acylation with [3H]acetic anhydride under certain conditions. Sphingosine was extracted from cultured cells with chloroform and methanol and then treated with base to remove interfering glycerolipids having reactive amino groups (e.g., phosphatidylethanolamine or phosphatidylserine). Sphingosine was acylated with [3H]acetic anhydride in the presence of 0.004 N NaOH. Acylation was complete in 1 h at 37 degrees C when sphingosine was present in the picomole range. After the acylation, samples were treated with NaOH to reduce background radioactivity by removing the remaining [3H]acetic anhydride and hydrolyzing any ester linkages formed during the acylation and resolved by thin-layer chromatography. [3H]C2-ceramide converted from sphingosine with the acylation was detected with radioautography and quantitated by scraping the corresponding band and counting its radioactivity with a scintillation counter. [3H]C2-ceramide formed was quantitatively measured. This assay allows quantification of sphingosine over a range of 10 to 1500 pmol. The amount of sphingosine in lipid extracts from cultured cells was proportional to the number of cells. Sphingosine levels in human gastric cancer KATO III cells, human promyelocytic leukemic HL60 cells, and human monoblastic U937 cells, determined by this method, were 26.6 +/- 2.2, 6.3 +/- 0.4, and 6.8 +/- 0.6 pmol per 10(6) cells, respectively. Our new procedure allows quantification of sphingosine levels present in the low picomole range in lipid extracts from biological samples.
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