Lipid components influence several cell surface properties that are critical in different stages of the metastatic process. In this study, we examined whether the different lung-colonizing potential of B16-F1 and B16-F10 melanoma cells could be related to a characteristic lipid profile. The lipid analyses, carried out on the same cell cultures used for the assay of lung-colonizing potential, revealed characteristics in the lipid composition of both B16-F1 and B16-F10 melanoma cells that are common to other systems of malignant cells: a high level of 18:1 associated with low proportions of polyunsaturated fatty acids in phospholipids, accumulation of ether-linked lipids and absence of complex gangliosides. The two B16 melanoma variants differed significantly only with respect to ether-linked lipids, due to a higher level of alkyl-PC in B16-F10 than in B16-F1.
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