LPCAT3 Inhibitors Remodel the Polyunsaturated Phospholipid Content of Human Cells and Protect from Ferroptosis
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Abstract
LPCAT3 is an integral membrane acyltransferase in the Lands cycle responsible for generating C20:4 phospholipids and has been implicated in key biological processes such as intestinal lipid absorption, lipoprotein assembly, and ferroptosis. Small-molecule inhibitors of LPCAT3 have not yet been described and would offer complementary tools to genetic models of LPCAT3 loss, which causes neonatal lethality in mice. Here, we report the discovery by high-throughput screening of a class of potent, selective, and cell-active inhibitors of LPCAT3. We provide evidence that these compounds inhibit LPCAT3 in a biphasic manner, possibly reflecting differential activity at each subunit of the LPCAT3 homodimer. LPCAT3 inhibitors cause rapid rewiring of polyunsaturated phospholipids in human cells that mirrors the changes observed in LPCAT3-null cells. Notably, these changes include not only the suppression of C20:4 phospholipids but also corresponding increases in C22:4 phospholipids, providing a potential mechanistic explanation for the partial but incomplete protection from ferroptosis observed in cells with pharmacological or genetic disruption of LPCAT3.
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