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A FAAH-regulated class of N-acyl taurines that activates TRP ion channels

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  • McKinney, Michele K, Ph.D. in Chemistry, Scripps Research 2001 - 2006

authors

  • Saghatelian, Alan
  • McKinney, Michele K
  • Bandell, M.
  • Patapoutian, Ardem
  • Cravatt, Benjamin

publication date

  • August 2006

journal

  • Biochemistry  Journal

abstract

  • Fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH) is an integral membrane enzyme that catabolizes several bioactive lipids in vivo. Most of the physiological substrates of FAAH characterized to date belong to the N-acyl ethanolamine (NAE) class of fatty acid amides, including the endocannabinoid anandamide, the anti-inflammatory lipid N-palmitoyl ethanolamine, and the satiating factor N-oleoyl ethanolamine. We recently identified a second structural class of fatty acid amides regulated by FAAH in vivo: the N-acyl taurines (NATs). Global metabolite profiling revealed high concentrations of long chain (> or = C20) saturated NATs in the central nervous system (CNS) of FAAH(-/-) mice. Here, we use metabolite profiling to characterize the FAAH-NAT system in peripheral mouse tissues. Livers and kidneys of FAAH(-/-) mice possessed dramatic elevations in NATs, which, in contrast to those detected in the CNS, were enriched in polyunsaturated acyl chains (e.g., C20:4, C22:6). Peripheral NATs rose more than 10-fold within 1 h following pharmacological inactivation of FAAH and reached levels up to approximately 5000 pmol/g tissue (C22:6 in kidney), implicating a constitutive and highly active pathway for NAT metabolism in which FAAH plays an integral part. Interestingly, NATs were found to activate multiple members of the transient receptor potential (TRP) family of calcium channels, including TRPV1 and TRPV4, which are both expressed in kidney. The dramatic elevation in endogenous levels of NATs following acute or chronic inactivation of FAAH, in conjunction with the pharmacological effects of these lipids on TRP channels, suggests the existence of a second major lipid signaling system regulated by FAAH in vivo.

subject areas

  • Amidohydrolases
  • Animals
  • Benzamides
  • CHO Cells
  • Carbamates
  • Cricetinae
  • Enzyme Inhibitors
  • Mice
  • Mice, Knockout
  • TRPV Cation Channels
  • Taurine
  • Tissue Distribution
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0006-2960

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1021/bi0608008

PubMed ID

  • 16866345
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 9007

end page

  • 9015

volume

  • 45

issue

  • 30

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