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Query: EC:3.1.1.34 (lipoprotein lipase)
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The effects of treadmill exercise on hepatic cholesterogenesis and fecal steroid excretion were studied using male Wistar rats fed a commercial pellet ration. Exercise, in comparison with ad libitum or pair-feeding sedentary groups, caused the following significant changes: (i) a reduction in the concentration of plasma triglyceride, phospholipid and cholesterol; (ii) a reduction in liver weight; (iii) increases in hepatic 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase activity and incorporation of mevalonate into digitonin precipitable sterol; (iv) increases in excretion of neutral and acidic steroids into the feces; (v) the increase in lipoprotein lipase activity in the cardiac muscle, and (vi) the decrease in the concentration of carcass triglyceride but not of cholesterol. These data suggest that the mechanism responsible for the plasma cholesterol-lowering effect of exercise is attributable to an increase in exretion of fecal neutral and acidic steroids accompanied by an acceleration of cholesterol turnover in the body.
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PMID:Effects of exercise on plasma and liver lipids of rats. IV. Effects of exercise on hepatic cholesterogenesis and fecal steroid excretion in rats. 44 Jun 29

The total lipoprotein lipase activity recovered in suspension of cells prepared from adult rat hearts was unaffected by the nutritional state of the animals used. The enzyme activity present in the cell suspensions was almost exclusively associated with the cardiac muscle cells present as the major cell type.
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PMID:The lipoprotein lipase (clearing-factor lipase) activity of cells isolated from rat cardiac muscle. 70 17

To elucidate the mechanisms of hypertriglyceridemia observed in the tumor-bearing rat, tissue lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity and LPL mRNA levels were examined in the fed and fasted states at different degrees of tumor burden and after tumor removal. LPL activity in the epididymal fat pad and cardiac muscle in the 24-h-fasted rats was significantly decreased with increasing tumor burden (r = -0.53, P less than 0.05 and r = -0.72, P less than 0.01, respectively). Tumor removal completely reversed these changes. In contrast, no change in LPL activity was detected in the fed state since food intake stimulated LPL activity to the same extent in both tumor-bearing (TBR) and control rats. LPL activity in the diaphragm and skeletal muscle was only marginally altered in TBR, as compared to controls. LPL mRNA from the epididymal fat pad and cardiac muscle migrated to the same site on agarose gel and hybridized to a LPL-specific complementary DNA probe. The decline in LPL activity in epididymal fat pad observed in TBR was associated with a decrease in LPL mRNA levels. In contrast, there was no significant difference in LPL mRNA levels in cardiac muscle between the two groups despite significantly suppressed enzyme activity in tumor bearers. This study provides evidence that hypertriglyceridemia in TBR is due in part to tumor-dependent suppression of adipose and cardiac LPL activity in the fasted state, which is stimulated by the presence of tumor. Unlike cardiac LPL, the tumor-induced changes in adipose LPL activity are regulated at the mRNA level in this tumor model.
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PMID:Tumor-induced alterations in tissue lipoprotein lipase activity and mRNA levels. 198 26

Colchicine injection was used as a tool to potentiate the increase in intracellular lipoprotein lipase (type L hormone-sensitive lipase) activity normally seen with fasting to determine if elevation of enzyme activity by this method produced a reduction in endogenous triacylglycerol (TG) in rat heart. Both fasting and fasting+colchicine treatment increased total lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity from a control value of 80 units/g to approx. 144 units/g. The initial control value was obtained at 08:00 h after overnight feeding and the final values were obtained at 17:00 h, after 9 h of fasting. Fasting alone increased activity in both the capillary-bound LPL and type L hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) fractions of cardiac muscle. In contrast, colchicine treatment, by blocking the export of enzyme from the cell as a result of microtubular disruption, restricted the increase in enzyme activity to the intracellular fraction of the heart. There was a highly significant (P less than 0.001) negative relationship (r = -0.73) between type L HSL activity and TG content in hearts of fasting and fasting+colchicine-treated rats. At a time when type L HSL activity was increased and TG content decreased, the cyclic AMP concentration of heart remained unchanged, ruling out the possibility that cyclic AMP might be activating any one of the identified cardiac TG lipases. These data provided indirect evidence that type L HSL is 'seeing the intracellular TG droplet' and that this enzyme may play a role in the regulation of myocardial lipolysis.
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PMID:Relationship between type L hormone-sensitive lipase activity and endogenous triacylglycerol in the hearts of colchicine-treated rats. 609 67

When cardiac muscle cells from mature rats were incubated in vitro in the presence of heparin (8.7 nmole ml-1) lipoprotein lipase activity appeared in the incubation medium. The intracellular activity of the enzyme remained unchanged. Other glycosaminoglycans (heparan sulphate, dermatan sulphate, keratan sulphate and chrondroitin 6-sulphate) at the same or higher concentrations were totally ineffective in producing any enzyme redistribution between cells and medium. The release seen in the presence of heparin was blocked by the presence of cycloheximide. Cycloheximide by contrast had no effect on the release observed in the presence of dexamethasone, The action of endogenous glycosaminoglycans are unlikely therefore to have a significant role to play in the movement of lipoprotein lipase in heart tissue in vivo.
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PMID:Glycosaminoglycan: cell interactions; their role in lipoprotein lipase secretion from isolated cardiac muscle cells. 646 14

Male rats injected with phenobarbital at a dose of 100 mg/kg for 5 days manifested increased postheparin lipolytic activity of fasting plasma. Inhibition studies with protamine sulphate, 1 M NaCl, and sodium dodecyl sulphate revealed that the activities of both lipoprotein lipase and hepatic triacylglycerol lipase were increased in the postheparin plasma of the drug-treated rats. Adipose tissue lipoprotein lipase activity was also increased in the phenobarbital-treated rats. The triacylglycerol lipase activity elutable by heparin from liver slices and the residual activity of liver microsomes increased significantly in the drug-treated rats. Lipoprotein lipase of cardiac muscle and red skeletal muscle was unaltered by phenobarbital treatment. The increased postheparin lipolytic activity of fasting phenobarbital-treated rats seems to be accountable through increased lipoprotein lipase activity of adipose tissue and increased triacylglycerol lipase activity of liver, both of which may contribute to the lowered fasting concentrations of serum triacylglycerol mediated by the drug, as previously reported.
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PMID:Modulation by phenobarbital of lipolytic activity in postheparin plasma and tissues of the rat. 717 93

This report describes a series of experiments that attempt to characterize the lipidemia accompanying retinoic acid administration. After feeding young adult male Sprague-Dawley rats, 1.2 Retinol Equivalents (R.E.) retinyl acetate plus supplemental retinoic acid (100 microgram/g dry diet) for three days and fasting for 6-8 hr, triglyceride, cholesterol, and phospholipid content of various serum lipoprotein fractions were determined. When compared to unsupplemented controls, both the serum very low density lipoprotein (VLDL) and the high density lipoprotein (HDL) fractions of the retinoic acid-fed rats were found to harbor an elevated triglyceride content. While VLDL cholesterol and phospholipid content were also elevated, total serum cholesterol and phospholipids were not statistically altered. The detergent Triton WR-1339 was used to depress serum triglyceride clearance in order to assess the effects of retinoic acid feeding on serum triglyceride levels. Triglyceride accumulation started earlier after Triton treatment and was greater when rats were fed 100 microgram/g retinoic acid for three days prior to testing. Red and white gastrocnemius muscle, cardiac ventricular muscle, and perirenal adipose tissue were removed from rats following retinoic acid feeding. Analysis of these tissues for lipoprotein lipase (EC 3.1.1.3) activity showed a decrease in adipose tissue, a large depression in both areas of gastrocnemius muscle and no change in cardiac muscle as a result of retinoic acid feeding.
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PMID:Hyperlipidemia in rats fed retinoic acid. 727 11

In extrahepatic tissues lipoprotein lipase (LPL) hydrolyzes triglycerides thereby generating FFA for tissue uptake and metabolism. To study the effects of increased FFA uptake in muscle tissue, transgenic mouse lines were generated with a human LPL minigene driven by the promoter of the muscle creatine kinase gene. In these mice human LPL was expressed in skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle, but not in other tissues. In proportion to the level of LPL overexpression, decreased plasma triglyceride levels, elevated FFA uptake by muscle tissue, weight loss, and premature death were observed in three independent transgenic mouse lines. The animals developed a severe myopathy characterized by muscle fiber degeneration, fiber atrophy, glycogen storage, and extensive proliferation of mitochondria and peroxisomes. This degree of proliferation suggests that FFA play an important role in the biogenesis of these organelles. Our experiments indicate that LPL is rate limiting for the supply of muscle tissue with triglyceride-derived FFA. Improper regulation of muscle LPL can lead to major pathological changes and may be important in the pathogenesis of some human myopathies. Muscle-specific LPL transgenic mouse lines will serve as a useful animal model for the investigation of myopathies and the biogenesis of mitochondria and peroxisomes.
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PMID:Muscle-specific overexpression of lipoprotein lipase causes a severe myopathy characterized by proliferation of mitochondria and peroxisomes in transgenic mice. 763 90

Endotoxin (lipopolysaccharide [LPS]) stimulates the production of cytokines, which mediate many of the metabolic effects associated with infection. In LPS-sensitive C57B1/6 mice, LPS doses as low as 0.01 micrograms per mouse decreased adipose tissue lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity by greater than 50%. In LPS-resistant C3H/HeJ mice, which do not produce cytokines in response to LPS, doses of LPS as high as 10 micrograms per mouse did not affect LPL activity in adipose tissue. In muscle of C57Bl/6 mice, LPL activity was decreased by 27% after 10 micrograms of LPS, whereas in C3H/HeJ mice there was no effect. These results indicate that the LPS-induced decrease in both adipose and muscle LPL activity is mediated by cytokines. Tumor necrosis factor (TNF), interleukin (IL)-1, leukemia-inhibiting factor (LIF), interferon alfa, and interferon gamma all decreased adipose tissue LPL activity in intact mice. In skeletal and cardiac muscle, only IL-1 and interferon gamma decreased LPL activity, whereas TNF, LIF, and interferon alfa had no effect. Inhibition of TNF activity blocked the increase in serum triglycerides that is characteristically observed after LPS but did not affect the ability of LPS to decrease adipose tissue LPL activity. Inhibition of IL-1 activity with IL-1 receptor antagonist partially inhibited the increase in serum triglycerides; however, the ability of LPS to decrease LPL activity in either adipose or muscle tissue was not affected. These data indicate that although TNF and IL-1 play a role in mediating the increase in serum triglyceride levels, these cytokines do not play a crucial role in the inhibition of either adipose or muscle LPL activity.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Effect of endotoxin and cytokines on lipoprotein lipase activity in mice. 794 14

We report the cloning of a 3656-bp cDNA encoding a putative human very low density lipoprotein (VLDL)/apolipoprotein E (ApoE) receptor. The gene encoding this protein was mapped to chromosome 9pter-p23. Northern analysis of human RNA identified cognate mRNAs of 6.0 and 3.8 kb with most abundant expression in heart and skeletal muscle, followed by kidney, placenta, pancreas, and brain. The pattern of expression generally paralleled that of lipoprotein lipase mRNA but differed from that of the low density lipoprotein (LDL) receptor and the low density lipoprotein receptor-related protein/alpha 2-macroglobulin receptor (LRP), which are members of the same gene family. VLDL/ApoE receptor message was not detected in liver, whereas mRNAs for both LDL receptor and LRP were found in hepatic tissue. In mouse 3T3-L1 cells, VLDL/ApoE receptor mRNA was induced during the transformation of the cells into adipocytes. Expression was also detected in human choriocarcinoma cells, suggesting that at least part of the expression observed in placenta may be in trophoblasts, cells which would be exposed to maternal blood. Expression in brain may be related to high levels of ApoE expression in that organ, an observation of potential relevance to the recently hypothesized role for ApoE in late onset Alzheimer disease. Our results suggest that the putative VLDL/ApoE receptor could play a role in the uptake of triglyceride-rich lipoprotein particles by specific organs including striated and cardiac muscle and adipose tissue and in the transport of maternal lipids across the placenta. The findings presented here, together with recent observations from other laboratories, bring up the possibility that a single gene, the VLDL/ApoE receptor, may play a role in the pathogenesis of certain forms of atherosclerosis, Alzheimer disease, and obesity.
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PMID:Cloning of a cDNA encoding a putative human very low density lipoprotein/apolipoprotein E receptor and assignment of the gene to chromosome 9pter-p23. 812 15


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