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A soluble protein fraction (PLEP) prepared from rabbit lung can catalyze the exchange of phospholipids between subcellular organelles of the lung and between these subcellular organelles and synthetic liposomes. Phospholipid exchange between microsomes and synthetic liposomes and between mitochondria and synthetic liposomes was stimulated 8-fold and 2.5-fold, respectively, in the presence of the protein fraction. Lung exchange protein could also catalyze phospholipid exchange between subcellular organelles of the liver and synthetic liposomes. Phospholipid transfer between microsomes and lamellar bodies of the lung was stimulated 2-fold by the exchange protein. Both radiolabeled phosphatidylcholine (PC) and phosphatidylinositol (PI) were transferred from32P-labeled microsomes to lamellar bodies, but the exchange protein exhibited no transfer activity for phosphatidylglycerol (PG) and that for phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) was insignificant compared to the transfer activity for phosphatidylcholine and phosphatidylinositol. While the physiological role of the phospholipid exchange proteins in the lung is unknown, it is possible that they participate in the distribution of the newly synthesized phospholipids from the site of synthesis to lamellar bodies and other membrane compartments of cells.
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Spalding, J.W., Hook, G.E.R. Phospholipid exchange between subcellular organelles of rabbit lung. Lipids 14, 606–613 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02533444
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