Comparison of the enzyme activities of phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylglycerol and phosphatidylinositol synthesis in freshly isolated type II pneumocytes and whole …

AM Gilfillan, DA Smart, SA Rooney - … et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Lipids and …, 1986 - Elsevier
We compared the activities of enzymes of phosphatidylcholine, phosphatidylglycerol and
phosphatidylinositol synthesis in whole lung tissue and freshly isolated type II pneumocytes
from adult rats. The activities of 1-acylglycerophosphocholine acyltransferase and
CDPdiacylglycerol-glycerol-3-phosphate 3-phosphati-dyltransferase were 2.9-and 4.4-fold
higher, respectively, in type II cell sonicates than in whole lung homogenates. There was
little difference between the type II cells and whole lung in the activities of choline kinase …