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Peninsula Medical School, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, John Bull Building, Plymouth, Devon PL6 8BU, UK
¹ School of Medicine, Institute of Human Nutrition, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 7PX, UK

(Requests for offprints should be addressed to N G Morgan; Email: noel.morgan{at}pms.ac.uk)

Long-chain saturated and monounsaturated fatty acids differ in their propensity to induce ß-cell death in vitro with palmitate (C16:0) being cytotoxic, whereas palmitoleate (C16:1n-7) is cytoprotective. We now show that this cytoprotective capacity extends to a poorly metabolised C16:1n-7 derivative, methyl-palmitoleate (0.25 mM palmitate alone: 92 ± 4% death after 18 h; palmitate plus 0.25 mM methyl-palmitoleate: 12 ± 2%; P < 0.001). Palmitoleate and its methylated derivative also acted as mitogens in cultured ß-cells (5-bromo-2-deoxyuridine incorporation – control: 0.15 ± 0.01 units; 0.25 mM palmitoleate: 0.22 ± 0.01 units; P < 0.05). It has been proposed that alterations in neutral lipid synthesis (particularly triacylglycerol (TAG) formation) might mediate the differential responses to saturated and unsaturated fatty acids and we have examined this proposition. Palmitate and palmitoleate both promoted ß-cell phospholipid remodelling and increased TAG formation (control: 0.9 ± 0.1 nmol TAG/10⁶ cells; 0.25 mM palmitate: 1.55 ± 0.07; 0.25 mM palmitoleate: 1.4 ± 0.05; palmitate plus palmitoleate: 2.3 ± 0.1). By contrast, methyl-palmitoleate failed to influence TAG levels (0.25 mM methyl-palmitoleate alone: 0.95 ± 0.06 nmol TAG/10⁶ cells; methyl-palmitoleate plus palmitate: 1.5 ± 0.05) or its fatty acid composition in ß-cells exposed to palmitate. The results suggest that monounsaturated fatty acids can promote cell viability and mitogenesis by a mechanism that does not require their metabolism and is independent of alterations in TAG formation.

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