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Query: EC:3.1.1.34 (lipoprotein lipase)
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A full-length human apo CII cDNA clone has been constructed by completing the 5' end of an incomplete cDNA with a 44 bp long synthetic oligonucleotide. This apo CII cDNA insert was cloned into the pSP19 expression vector and transcribed and translated in vitro. Its N-terminal signal sequence (23 amino-acid residues) was accurately cleaved during cotranslational translocation through endoplasmic reticulum membranes to yield the mature apo CII. Mature apo CII was expressed on a preparative scale as fusion protein apo CII-beta-galactosidase with the full-length apo CII cDNA integrated into the pUR291 vector. Furthermore it was expressed in E. coli transformed with the pKK233-2 apo CII clone. The preform was accurately processed by the host cell. C-Terminal apo CII deletion mutants generated by partial Bal31 digestion of the pKK233-2 apo CII vector yielded well-defined truncated apo CII polypeptides on a preparative scale which allowed the determination of the polypeptide domain responsible for the activation of the serum lipoprotein lipase.
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PMID:Expression of normal and mutagenized apolipoprotein CII in procaryotic cells. Structure-function relationship. 306 32

A model for the regulation of erythropoietin production has been presented. This model proposes that a primary O2-sensing reaction in the kidney is initiated by a decrease in ambient PO2, a rapid decrease in gas exchange in the lung, a diminished oxygen-carrying capacity of hemoglobin, a molecular deprivation of oxygen, or a decrease in renal blood flow. It is proposed that the primary oxygen-sensing reaction may trigger the release of several mediators that stimulate adenylate cyclase through a receptor-activated stimulation of a G protein in the renal cell membrane. Some of the agents that are thought to be released during hypoxia, which may trigger this cascade, are adenosine (A2 activation), eicosanoids (PGE2, PGI2, and 6-keto PGE1), oxygen-free radicals (superoxide and H2O2), and catecholamines with beta-2 adrenergic receptor agonist properties. The activation of adenylate cyclase generates cyclic AMP, which activates protein kinase A, leading to the production of a phosphoprotein that, in turn, activates a nuclear protein involved in transcription and/or translation for erythropoietin biosynthesis and/or secretion. A second part of this model concerns the effect of hypoxia on a renal cell membrane phosphodiesterase and the generation of inositol triphosphate and diacylglycerol. Diacylglycerol may interact with diacylglycerol lipase to generate arachidonic acid, which, together with arachidonic acid generated by the interaction of phospholipase A2 on membrane phospholipids, produces eicosanoids. Eicosanoids may play a secondary role in Ep production/secretion. The model further proposes that calcium levels in both renal and liver cells may be important in regulating erythropoietin biosynthesis and/or secretion. It is proposed that an increase in intracellular calcium leads to the inhibition of erythropoietin biosynthesis and/or secretion and a decrease in intracellular calcium increases erythropoietin production. The specific mechanism by which calcium regulates erythropoietin biosynthesis and secretion is not well understood. However, a good correlation is seen with several agents that decrease intracellular calcium and increase erythropoietin production as well as with other agents that increase intracellular calcium and decrease erythropoietin production. When inositol triphosphate levels are increased, an increase in the mobilization of intracellular calcium from the endoplasmic reticulum or another intracellular pool occurs. This increased intracellular calcium probably activates a calcium calmodulin kinase and produces a phosphoprotein that inhibits erythropoietin production/secretion.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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PMID:Pharmacologic modulation of erythropoietin production. 328 82

The metabolism of Intralipid (intravenously injected) was studied in rats fasted for 48 h. At all doses used, the Intralipid triacylglycerols disappeared rapidly from circulation and concomitantly the hepatic content of triacylglycerols and the level of circulating ketone bodies increased, indicating an active metabolism of Intralipid by the liver. To study this possibility further we used an ultrastructural approach. In rats given Intralipid we detected numerous lipid particles in the spaces of Disse, retained in the interdigitations of the hepatocyte. There were also lipid particles attached to the luminal surface of the endothelial cells. Small lipid particles were seen in close contact with endocytic vesicles internalized into hepatocytes but were present mainly in endothelial cells. Inside the endothelial cells, the endocytic vesicles were detected in contact with lysosomes. Inside hepatocytes, a process of sterification seemed to occur in the endoplasmic reticulum as deduced from the presence of small lipid droplets with ill-defined outlines. Large lipid droplets were seen in close contact with mitochondria, indicating a mitochondrial uptake and metabolism of fatty acids to synthesize and release ketone bodies. The possible role of lipoprotein lipase in the liver for the hepatic uptake of Intralipid particles is discussed.
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PMID:Uptake and metabolism of Intralipid by rat liver: an electron-microscopic study. 340 86

Cultured mouse (J774.1) macrophages accumulated triacylglycerol, but no cholesteryl ester or cholesterol, when incubated in albumin-poor medium with serum-activated lipid particles containing 84 mol% trioleoylglycerol and 9 mol% cholesteryl oleate. Accumulation of triacylglycerol by cells was associated with hydrolysis of particulate triacylglycerol to fatty acid and glycerol. Both acyl and glyceryl moieties of particulate triacylglycerol were recovered in cellular triacylglycerol with a molar ratio of 3.6. The cells also accumulated fatty acid and monoacylglycerol. Whether acylglycerol was taken up as a single molecular species, such as monoacylglycerol, or as several species can not be determined by the present findings. Macrophages incubated with lipid particles for 24 h had many lipid particles attached to cell surfaces and numerous intracellular lipid droplets. The surface film of attached particles was continuous with the outer leaflet of plasma membrane of the cells. Particles partially depleted of core triacylglycerol and collapsed surface films were found attached to surfaces of macrophages. There was no morphological evidence that lipid particles were taken up intact by cells, through endocytosis or phagocytosis. Macrophages incubated with lipid particles also contained intracellular lamellar structures. They varied in size and shape, and were located in the periphery of cells, sometimes near lipid droplets and endoplasmic reticulum. Only 3% of the lamellar structures were associated with lysosomes, indicating they probably were not of lysosomal origin. Lipid particles attached to cells decreased in size and number, and lamellar structures developed at the surface of particles, or replaced the particles, when glutaraldehyde-fixed specimens were incubated at 25 degrees C, demonstrating lipolytic activity at the surface of macrophages. Our findings suggest that particulate triacylglycerol was hydrolyzed by lipoprotein lipase at the surface of macrophages, and that fatty acid and monoacylglycerol formed by lipolysis were transported directly into the cells to be reesterified. When lipolytic products were taken up faster than they could be utilized, they accumulated as lamellar structures in the cells.
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PMID:Lipolysis of serum-activated triacylglycerol at the surface of J774.1 macrophages. A biochemical--electron-microscopic study. 351 5

Rat liver homogenate or cell fractions deacylate 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol 13-acetate (TPA) in vitro mainly by conversion to phorbol 13-acetate. The highest specific activity is located in the microsomal fraction. The deacylation is inhibited by bis-(4-nitrophenyl) phosphate, a selective inhibitor of nonspecific carboxylesterases. Only two of five purified esterases from rat liver endoplasmic reticulum deacylate TPA. These two esterases have formerly been characterized as acylcarnitine hydrolases and the more active one is also a potent diacylglycerol lipase. Its TPA-hydrolyzing activity is inhibited by other substrates like 1-naphthylacetate, lauroylcarnitine, or dioleoyl glycerol. The results support the view that phorbol esters act like structural analogs of diacylglycerols, not only with respect to their activating effect on protein kinase C, but also as substrates for the same lipases.
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PMID:The tumor promoter 12-O-tetradecanoyl phorbol 13-acetate and regulatory diacylglycerols are substrates for the same carboxylesterase. 371 Nov 10

Lipoprotein lipase and hepatic lipase activities are very low in tissues of mice born with genetic combined lipase deficiency (cld/cld). Consequently, if allowed to suckle, the mice develop severe hyperlipemia and die within 3 days. The ultrastructure of capillaries and parenchymal cells in tissues that normally contain lipoprotein lipase and hepatic lipase was studied in tissues from cld/cld and unaffected mice 6 to 24 hours of age. Capillaries in tissues from suckled cld/cld mice were packed with numerous abnormally shaped chylomicrons. There was close contact between surfaces of chylomicrons and the luminal plasma membrane of endothelium. Chylomicrons were sometimes found between endothelial cells and in the subendothelial space in heart, lung, and liver, and in the lumen of lung alveoli. In contrast, capillaries of suckled unaffected mice contained very few chylomicrons, and the subendothelial spaces and lung alveoli were free of chylomicrons. Myocytes of diaphragm and heart from suckled cld/cld mice did not contain lipid droplets, whereas brown adipocytes contained a few small droplets. Parenchymal cells in diaphragm, heart, brown adipose tissue, and lung from suckled unaffected mice contained numerous large lipid droplets. Hepatocytes of suckled cld/cld mice contained small irregularly shaped lipoprotein particles (100 A) in endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi, numerous large lysosomes containing small lipoprotein particles, lipid spheres and lamellar structures, and no intracellular lipid droplets, whereas hepatocytes of suckled unaffected mice contained larger lipoprotein particles (400 A), large lipid droplets, and very few lysosomes. Triacylglycerol of chylomicrons from cld/cld mice was readily hydrolyzed by bovine lipoprotein lipase in vitro, and this effect was not augmented by heat-inactivated serum, indicating that the chylomicrons contained adequate amounts of apoprotein C-II. Thus, the large amount of chylomicrons in capillaries and small amount of lipid droplets in cells of suckled cld/cld mice reflect the very low level of lipoprotein lipase activity in these animals. The findings in hepatocytes indicate that lipoprotein metabolism in liver is markedly disturbed in cld/cld mice.
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PMID:Effect of the combined lipase deficiency mutation (cld/cld) on ultrastructure of tissues in mice. Diaphragm, heart, brown adipose tissue, lung, and liver. 374 49

Epidemiological, pathological and genetic studies show a strong positive correlation between elevated plasma concentrations of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and the risk of premature coronary heart disease. Apolipoprotein (apo) B-100 is the sole protein component of LDL and is the ligand responsible for the receptor-mediated uptake and clearance of LDL from the circulation. Apo B-100 is made by the liver and is essential for the assembly of triglyceride-rich very low-density lipoproteins (VLDL) in the cisternae of the endoplasmic reticulum and for their secretion into the plasma. VLDL transports triglyceride to peripheral muscle and adipose tissue, where the triglyceride is hydrolysed by lipoprotein lipase. The resultant particle, relatively enriched in cholesteryl ester, constitutes LDL. LDL delivers cholesterol to peripheral tissues where it is used for membrane and steroid hormone biosynthesis and to the liver, the only organ which can catabolize and excrete cholesterol. Plasma LDL levels are therefore determined by the balance between their rate of production from VLDL and clearance by the hepatic LDL (apo B/E) receptor pathway. Here we report the complete 4,563-amino-acid sequence of apo B-100 precursor (relative molecular mass (Mr) 514,000 (514K] determined from complementary DNA clones. Numerous lipid-binding structures are distributed throughout the extraordinary length of apo B-100 and must underlie its special functions as a nucleus for lipoprotein assembly and maintenance of plasma lipoprotein integrity. A domain enriched in basic amino-acid residues has been identified as important for the cellular uptake of cholesterol by the LDL receptor pathway.
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PMID:Complete protein sequence and identification of structural domains of human apolipoprotein B. 377 97

The intracellular pathway and the activation of lipoprotein lipase have been examined in differentiated Ob17 cells. These adipose cells were previously shown to secrete lipoprotein lipase during exposure to heparin. Treatment of the cells with cycloheximide and heparin leads to enzyme depletion, as shown by activity measurement and immunofluorescence microscopy. The repletion phase has been studied in the presence of monensin or carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone, ionophores known to affect the intracellular transport of membrane and secretory proteins. Monensin-treated cells synthesize fully active lipoprotein lipase. Under these conditions the antigen accumulates in the Golgi apparatus and the heparin-stimulated enzyme release is extensively reduced. Carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone-treated cells do not contain any enzyme activity but show detectable antigen which accumulates in the endoplasmic reticulum. Competition for binding to immobilized anti-lipoprotein lipase antibodies of mature and endoplasmic reticulum-sequestered antigens is observed. Carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone removal is rapidly followed by a transient burst of enzyme activity and a redistribution of the antigen in the different subcellular compartments. Therefore, the results show that the activation of lipoprotein lipase is an intracellular event taking place after the enzyme exits from the endoplasmic reticulum and before it reaches the trans-Golgi cisternae.
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PMID:Maturation and secretion of lipoprotein lipase in cultured adipose cells. I. Intracellular activation of the enzyme. 388 9

Fatty acids, monoacylglycerol, cholesterol, and phospholipids are taken up from blood by many different tissues. These substances, which are strongly amphipathic at physiological pH, are poorly soluble in water and neutral lipids (tyriacylglycerol nd cholesteryl ester). They are transported in blood as components of lipoprotein particles or, in the case of fatty acids, s monomers bound to albumin. Fatty acids derived from the diet are carried as triacylglycerol in chylomicrons and very low density lipoprpoteins (VLDL). Phospholipids and cholesterol absorbed from intestines are also transported in chylomicrons and VLDL. We propose that transport of fatty acids and monoacylglycerol from chylomicrons Tand VLDL) across capillary endothelium in extrahepatic tissues requires 1) conversion of chylomicron triacylglycerol to amphipathic lipids (fatty acids and monoacylglycerol) by lipoprotein lipase at the capillary surface, 2) location and lateral movement of ipolytic products in a continuous interface composed of the chylomicron surface film and the external leaflet of plasma and intracellular membranes of endothelial and parenchymal cells, and 3) removal of lipolytic products from the interface in endoplasmic reticulum where they are reesterified to traicylglycerol and accumulate between leaflets of endoplasmic reticulum. We suggest that cholesterol and phospholipids from chylomicrons, and fatty acids from plasma albumin, also cross capillary endothelium by lateral movement in cell membranes.
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PMID:Transport of lipid across capillary endothelium. 699 54

Subcellular fractionation studies were done using lactating rat mammary tissue. Lipoprotein lipase (E.C. 3.1.1.34) was found to be associated with plasma membrane-enriched and endoplasmic reticulum-enriched fractions. Considerable amounts of soluble lipoprotein lipase were found after homogenization of this tissue. The membrane-associated lipoprotein lipase activities described here were found to be resistant to release, by heparin, from their membrane sites. Buoyant density gradient fractionation experiments suggest that the lipoprotein lipase activity of lactating mammary tissue is located in part on the secretory epithelial cell plasma membrane. This conclusion is discussed in the context of the known site of action, in vivo, of mammary gland lipoprotein lipase, and of probable routes of its transport to that site.
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PMID:Lipoprotein lipase. Localization on plasma membrane fragments from lactating rat mammary tissue. 724 31


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