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Query: EC:3.1.1.34 (lipoprotein lipase)
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Extracts of acetone-ether powders of bovine thoracic aorta contain lipase activity which has an alkaline pH maximum (7.8-8.4) and is stimulated 4-10-fold by adding serum or isolated apolipoprotein-glutamate to the assay mixture. Serum activation is completely reversed by isolated apolipoprotein-serine or apolipoprotein-alanine. Lipolysis is strongly inhibited by NaCl (0.5 M) and protamine sulfate (1 mg/ml) and partially inhibited by heparin. Based on these characteristics, the lipase is identified as lipoprotein lipase.
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PMID:Detection and partial characterization of lipoprotein lipase in bovine aorta. 0 Oct 87

Lipoprotein lipase activity has been found in the milks from severals species where it is assumed to result from leakage from the mammary gland into milk. The function of the enzyme in the gland is apparently to assist in the transfer of blood lipoprotein triacylglycerol fatty acids into milk triacylglycerols. Bovine skim milk is one of the richest sources of lipoprotein lipase and this enzyme has been purified extensively (7000 fold) by affinity chromatography. The lipase has a molecular weight of about 62000, is inhibited by protamine sulfate, 1.0 M sodium chloride, apolipoprotein C-I (apolipoprotein-serine), and apolipoprotein C-III (apolipoprotein-alanine). The enzyme is activated by apolipoprotein C-II (apolipoprotein-glutamic acid), serum, and by heparin to which it also binds. The lipase is highly specific for the primary esters of acylglycerols and exhibits a slight stereospecificity for the sn-1 ester in preference to the sn-3-ester. Bovine milk also has separate activity toward 1-monoacylglycerols. Human milk contains a serum stimulated lipoprotein lipase with many of the characteristics of the enzyme in bovine milk, as well as an enzyme stimulated by bile salts which resembles the sterol ester hydrolase of rat pancreatic juice. The assay, function, purification, characteristics, and substrate specificities of these enzyme are discussed.
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PMID:Milk lipoprotein lipases: a review. 0 79

Very low density lipoproteins ere isolated from plasma of swine by ultracentrifugal flotation. After delipidation, the lipid-free proteins were separated by chromatography on Sephadex G-150 AND DEAE-cellulose. A major apoprotein was isolated and shown to activate cows' milk lipoprotein lipase. Since human very low density lipoproteins also contain an activator protein, designated, apoC-II, we have called the pig protein, pig apoC-II. Pig apoC-II had a molecular weight of approximately 10 000 as determined by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate. The amino acid composistion showed the absence of histidine, cysteine and tryptophan; there was no evidence for carbohydrate. Treatment of pig apoC-II with carboxypeptidase indicated COOH-terminal serine. Rabbit antisera prepared to the pig protein gave single precipitin lines of complete identity to very low density lipoproteins, apoC-11. Using anti-pig apoC-II, a radioimmunoassay was developed which provides a convenient and reproducible method for measuring 5-1000 ng of apoprotein.
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PMID:Physical, chemical and immunochemical characterization of a lipoprotein lipase activator protein from pig plasma very low density lipoproteins. 18 30

We have developed a procedure for the determination of a common mutation in exon 9 of the human lipoprotein lipase (LPL) gene. The mutation is due to a C-G transversion which creates a premature termination codon (Ser447-Ter) and results in a truncated LPL molecule lacking the C-terminal dipeptide SER-GLY. The mutation can be detected by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification of exon 9 using a modified 3' amplimer that produces a 140 bp product containing a site for the restriction enzyme Hinf-1 in the presence of the mutation (G allele). The G allele was in strong linkage disequilibrium with a Hind-III restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) allele in intron 8. Genotype determinations for the mutation can be performed by PCR amplification of genomic DNA, digestion with Hinf-1, and analysis of the products by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The allelic frequency of the Ser447-Ter mutation in normal male Caucasian controls was 0.11. The frequency of the mutation was lower in a group of subjects with primary hypertriglyceridemia compared to normolipidemic controls.
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PMID:Lipoprotein lipase genotypes for a common premature termination codon mutation detected by PCR-mediated site-directed mutagenesis and restriction digestion. 135 2

Porcine lipoprotein lipase (LPL) cDNA has been cloned and sequenced. The deduced amino acid sequence shows a high degree of identity to LPL from other species, and contains the Ser/His/Asp triade characteristic of serine proteases and esterases. A repetitive element is present in the 3'-untranslated region of the cDNA. A partial cDNA covering the coding region of LPL detects three restriction fragment length polymorphisms with HindIII. This represents the first marker assigned to porcine chromosome 14.
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PMID:Isolation and sequencing of porcine lipoprotein lipase cDNA and its use in multiallelic restriction fragment length polymorphism detection. 136 60

Most missense mutations of the lipoprotein lipase (LPL) gene identified among LPL-deficient subjects cluster in a segment of the sequence that encodes the catalytic triad as well as functional elements involved in the activation of the lipase at lipid-water interfaces. Consequently, loss of activity may result either from direct alterations of such functional elements or from less specific effects on protein folding and stability. This issue was addressed by examining biochemical properties of four such variants (A176T, G188E, G195E, and S244T) in a heterologous expression system (COS-1 cells). Variant G195E (GGA----GAA) was previously unreported. In all instances, inactive enzyme was recovered in medium, albeit at reduced levels. Cellular synthesis and extracellular degradation were similar to those for wild type, suggesting that reduced secretion resulted from increased intracellular degradation. When cell extracts were subjected to heparin-Superose affinity chromatography followed by elution on a linear salt gradient, all variants exhibited a single, inactive, low affinity immunoreactive peak. By contrast, wild-type enzyme presented an additional, high affinity, active species, which we interpret as homodimeric enzyme. Substitution of the active-site serine (S132A) led to loss of activity but maintenance of the high affinity species. When large amounts of the G188E variant were applied to the column, small but significant amounts of high affinity, active enzyme were recovered. Systematic substitutions at residue 188 showed that only glycine could accommodate structural constraints at this position. We conclude that the mutations examined did not impart lipase deficiency by affecting specific functional elements of the enzyme. Rather, they appear to affect protein folding and stability, and thereby formation and maintenance of subunit assembly.
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PMID:Missense mutations in exon 5 of the human lipoprotein lipase gene. Inactivation correlates with loss of dimerization. 140 Mar 31

The lipase superfamily includes three vertebrate and three invertebrate (dipteran) proteins that show significant amino acid sequence similarity to one another. The vertebrate proteins are lipoprotein lipase (LPL), hepatic lipase (HL), and pancreatic lipase (PL). The dipteran proteins are Drosophila yolk proteins 1, 2, and 3. We review the relationships among these proteins that have been established according to gene structural relatedness and introduce our findings on the phylogenetic relationships, distance relationships, and evolutionary history of the lipase gene superfamily. Drosophila yolk proteins contain a 104 amino acid residue segment that is conserved with respect to the lipases. We have used the yolk proteins as an outgroup to root a phylogeny of the lipase family. Our phylogenetic reconstruction suggests that ancestral PL diverged earlier than HL and LPL, which share a more recent root. Human and bovine LPL are shown to be more closely related to murine LPL than to guinea pig LPL. A comparison of the distance (a measure of the number of substitutions between sequences) between mammalian and avian LPL reveals that guinea pig LPL has the largest distance from the other mammals. Human, rodent, and rabbit HL show marked divergence from one another, although they have similar relative rates of amino acid substitution when compared to human LPL as an outgroup. Human and porcine PL are not as divergent as human and rat HL, suggesting that PL is more conserved than HL. However, canine PL demonstrates an unusually rapid rate of substitution with respect to the other pancreatic lipases. The lipases share several structurally conserved features. One highly conserved sequence (Gly-Xaa-Ser-Xaa-Gly) contains the active site serine. This feature, which agrees with that found in serine esterases and proteases, is found within the entire spectrum of lipases, including the evolutionarily unrelated prokaryotic lipases. We review the location and possible activity of putative lipid binding domains. We have constructed a conservation index (CI) to display conserved structural features within the lipase gene family, a CI of 1.0 signifying perfect conservation. We have found a correlation between a high CI and the position of conserved functional structures. The putative lipid-binding domains of LPL and HL, the disulfide-bridging cysteine residues, catalytic residues, and N-linked glycosylation sites of LPL, HL, and PL all lie within regions having a CI of 0.8 or higher. A number of amino acid substitutions have been identified in familial hyperchylomicronemia which result in loss of LPL function.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Structure and evolution of the lipase superfamily. 156 70

The substrate specificity of a calcium-independent, 97-kDa phospholipase B purified from guinea pig intestine was further investigated using various natural and synthetic lipids. The enzyme was equally active toward enantiomeric phosphatidylcholines under conditions allowing a strict phospholipase A activity. The lysophospholipase activity declined with the following substrates: 1-acyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphocholine greater than 1-palmitoyl-propanediol-3-phosphocholine greater than 1-palmitoyl-glycol-2-phosphocholine, suggesting some influence of the polar residue vicinal to the cleavage site. The enzyme also acted on various neutral lipids including triacylglycerol, diacylglycerol, and monoacylglycerol, whereas cholesteryl oleate remained refractory to enzymatic hydrolysis. The lipase hydrolyzed sequentially the sn-2 and sn-1 acyl ester bonds of diacylglycerol, although some direct cleavage of the external acyl ester bond could also occur, as shown with diacylglycerol analogues bearing a nonhydrolyzable alkyl ether or amide bond in the sn-1 or sn-2 position. The three main activities of the enzyme (phospholipase A2, lysophospholipase, and diacylglycerol lipase) were resistant to 4-bromophenacyl bromide, but they were inhibited by N-ethylmaleimide, 5,5'-dithiobis-(2-nitrobenzoic acid), and diisopropyl fluorophosphate, suggesting the possible involvement of both cysteine and serine residues in a single active site. It is concluded that guinea pig intestinal phospholipase B, which was also detected in rat and rabbit, is actually a glycerol ester lipase with broad substrate specificity and some unique enzymatic properties.
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PMID:Substrate specificity of phospholipase B from guinea pig intestine. A glycerol ester lipase with broad specificity. 161 44

In the hawkmoth Manduca sexta high density lipophorin from adult insects (HDLp-A) delivers lipids to developing oocytes. During this lipid delivery HDLp-A is taken up by the oocyte and converted to a very high density lipophorin (VHDLp), which is stored in protein storage granules (yolk bodies). A membrane-free lysate of isolated M. sexta yolk bodies was demonstrated to contain lipoprotein lipase activity that hydrolyses the diacylglycerol of HDLp-A. With HDLp-A as a substrate yolk body lipophorin lipase (YBLpL) activity was shown to be maximal between pH 9 and pH 9.5. NaCl concentration was optimal between 0.7 M and 1 M. YBLpL activity required neither bovine serum albumin nor calcium ions but appeared to be stimulated by 5 mM EDTA. Diisopropyl fluorophosphate effectively inhibited YBLpL activity, indicating the presence of a serine in the active site of the enzyme. The identified lipase activity co-eluted with lipophorins and vitellins from the yolk in the void volume of a Sephadex G-75 gel filtration column. This observation suggests that the lipase has a Mr of more than 80,000, or that the enzyme is associated with the lipoproteins. Incubation of HDLp-A with yolk body lysate converted HDLp-A to two classes of higher density lipophorins. The highest density lipophorins produced during this incubation approached the density of VHDLp as it is isolated from mature eggs. The possible role of YBLpL activity in the delivery of lipids to developing oocytes is discussed.
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PMID:Lipophorin lipase from the yolk of Manduca sexta eggs: identification and partial characterization. 162 20

We are studying naturally occurring mutations in the gene for lipoprotein lipase (LPL) to advance our knowledge about the structure/function relationships for this enzyme. We and others have previously described 11 mutations in human LPL gene and until now none of these directly involves any of the residues in the proposed Asp156-His241-Ser132 catalytic triad. Here we report two separate probands who are deficient in LPL activity and have three different LPL gene haplotypes, suggesting three distinct mutations. Using polymerase chain reaction cloning and DNA sequencing we have identified that proband 1 is a compound heterozygote for a G----A transition at nucleotide 721, resulting in a substitution of asparagine for aspartic acid at residue 156, and a T----A transversion, resulting in a substitution of serine for cysteine at residues 216. Proband 2 is homozygous for an A----G base change at nucleotide 722, leading to a substitution of glycine for aspartic acid at residue 156. The presence of these mutations in the patients and available family members was confirmed by restriction analysis of polymerase chain reaction-amplified DNA. In vitro site-directed mutagenesis and subsequent expression in COS cells have confirmed that all three mutations result in catalytically defective LPL. The two naturally occurring mutations, which both alter the same aspartic acid residue in the proposed Asp156-His241-Ser132 catalytic triad of human LPL, indicate that Asp156 plays a significant role in LPL catalysis. The Cys216----Ser mutation destroys a conserved disulfide bridge that is apparently critical for maintaining LPL structure and function.
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PMID:Two naturally occurring mutations at the first and second bases of codon aspartic acid 156 in the proposed catalytic triad of human lipoprotein lipase. In vivo evidence that aspartic acid 156 is essential for catalysis. 173 Jul 27


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