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Lipid Profiling Reveals Tissue-Specific Differences for Ethanolamide Lipids in Mice Lacking Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase
Lipids (2010)
  • Aruna Kilaru, University of North Texas
  • Giorgis Isaac, Kansas State University
  • Pamela Tamura, Kansas State University
  • David Baxter, University of North Texas
  • Scott R. Duncan, University of Missouri–Kansas City
  • Barney J. Venables, University of North Texas
  • Ruth Welti, Kansas State University
  • Peter Koulen, University of North Texas
  • Kent D. Chapman, University of North Texas
Abstract
N‐Acylethanolamines (NAE) are fatty acid derivatives, some of which function as endocannabinoids in mammals. NAE metabolism involves common (phosphatidylethanolamines, PEs) and uncommon (N‐acylphosphatidylethanolamines, NAPEs) membrane phospholipids. Here we have identified and quantified more than a hundred metabolites in the NAE/endocannabinoid pathway in mouse brain and heart tissues, including many previously unreported molecular species of NAPE. We found that brain tissue of mice lacking fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH−/−) had elevated PE and NAPE molecular species in addition to elevated NAEs, suggesting that FAAH activity participates in the overall regulation of this pathway. This perturbation of the NAE pathway in brain was not observed in heart tissue of FAAH−/− mice, indicating that metabolic regulation of the NAE pathway differs in these two organs and the metabolic enzymes that catabolize NAEs are most likely differentially distributed and/or regulated. Targeted lipidomics analysis, like that presented here, will continue to provide important insights into cellular lipid signaling networks.
Disciplines
Publication Date
August 17, 2010
DOI
10.1007/s11745-010-3457-5
Publisher Statement
This document is an author manuscript from PMC. The publisher's final edited version of this article is available at Lipids.
Citation Information
Aruna Kilaru, Giorgis Isaac, Pamela Tamura, David Baxter, et al.. "Lipid Profiling Reveals Tissue-Specific Differences for Ethanolamide Lipids in Mice Lacking Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase" Lipids Vol. 45 Iss. 9 (2010) p. 863 - 875
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