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Inositol phospholipids regulate many cellular processes, including cell survival, membrane trafficking, and actin polymerization.
Quantification of inositol lipids is one of the essential techniques needed for studies that aim to decipher inositol lipid-dependent
cellular functions. The study of phosphoinositides in most organisms is hampered by a lack of facile genetic tools. However,
the essential elements of most inositol lipid signaling pathways appear to be conserved across eukaryote phylogeny. They can
therefore readily be elucidated (both genetically and biochemically) in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Because of the low abundance of polyphosphoinositides in cells, many analytical methods start by radioactively labeling
intact cells and then extracting the lipids with chloroform/methanol/water mixtures based on those first devised half a century
ago. Yeast present special extraction problems because the cell wall must be broken in order to facilitate solvent access
and maximize lipid yield. Once lipids have been extracted, fatty acids are removed and the resulting water-soluble glycerophosphoinositol
phosphates are analysed by anion-exchange HPLC. This chapter describes how to extract and quantify the inositol lipids of
S. cerevisiae cells that have been radiolabeled to isotopic equilibrium with [3H]myo-inositol.
Affiliation(s): (1) Phosphoinositide Lab, School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15-2TT, UK
Book Title: Lipid Signaling Protocols
Series: Methods in Molecular Biology | Volume: 462 | Year: 2009 | Page Range: 1-16 | DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-115-8_4
Subject: Biochemistry
Key Words: Inositol - phosphoinositide - signaling - membrane trafficking - yeast - HPLC - phosphatidylinositol
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