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Docosahexaenoic fatty acid-containing phospholipids affect plasma membrane susceptibility to disruption by bacterial toxin-induced macroapertures

TSAI, M.-C.; FLEURIOT, L.; JANEL, S.; GONZALEZ-RODRIGUEZ, D.; MOREL, C.; METTOUCHI, A.; DEBAYLE, D.; DALLONGEVILLE, S.; OLIVO-MARIN, J.-C.; ANTONNY, B.; LAFONT, F.; LEMICHEZ, E.; BARELLI, H.

2020-12-23 cell biology
10.1101/2020.12.23.424114 bioRxiv
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Metabolic studies and animal knockout models point to the critical role of polyunsaturated docosahexaenoic acid (22:6, DHA)-containing phospholipids (PLs) in physiology. Here, we study the impact of DHA-PLs on the dynamics of transendothelial cell macroapertures (TEMs) tunnels triggered by the RhoA GTPase inhibitory exotoxin C3 from Clostridium botulinum. Through lipidomic analyses, we show that primary human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVECs) subjected to DHA-diet undergo a 6-fold DHA-PLs enrichment in plasma membrane at the expense of monounsaturated OA-PLs. In contrast, OA-diet had almost no effect on PLs composition. Consequently, DHA treatment increases the nucleation rate of TEMs by 2-fold that we ascribe to a reduction of cell thickness. We reveal that the global transcellular area of cells remains conserved through a reduction of the width and lifetime of TEMs. Altogether, we reveal a homeostasis between plasma membrane DHA-PLs content and large-scale membrane dynamics.

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