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Query: EC:3.1.1.34 (lipoprotein lipase)
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A clonal cell line that responds to insulin and to lipolytic hormones has been established from the epididymal fat pad of the C57BL/6J ob/ob mouse. This line, designated ob 17, has a doubling time of 12.5 or 19 hr in 10% or 1% fetal calf serum, respectively. It presents a heterogeneous chromosome number with 40% of the cells containing 35-44 chromosomes and expresses the characteristic H2-LA antigen. After cessation of growth, ob 17 cells accumulate droplets of triglycerides; this accumulation occurs to a significant extent even in the absence of insulin normally added after confluence. Lipoprotein lipase activity is negligible in exponentially growing cells but appears at its maximal level just after confluence with or without insulin. Acid:CoA ligase and acylCoA:diglyceride acyltransferase develop later than lipoprotein lipase. The appearance of lipolytic and lipogenic enzymes, but not of triglycerides, seems to be independent of the presence of lipoproteins or of unesterified fatty acids in the culture medium. Therefore, the differentiation program becomes operative when growth is arrested, and differentiation occurs, providing a source of exogenous lipids. Differentiated ob 17 cells in which endogenous triglycerides have been prelabeled on the fatty acid moiety do respond to epinephrine and corticotropin by release of radioactive fatty acid. This lipolytic response is counteracted by prior addition of insulin. The ob 17 cell line appears to be a useful model for study of growth and differentiation of adipose cells as compared to preadipocyte cell lines from the nongenetically obese mouse.
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PMID:Establishment of preadipocyte clonal line from epididymal fat pad of ob/ob mouse that responds to insulin and to lipolytic hormones. 21 11

The effect of exposure of porcine pulmonary artery endothelial cells to hypoxic (0% O2) and normoxic (20% O2) conditions for 24 and 48 h on phospholipid metabolism was studied. Sonicates prepared from endothelial cells that were exposed to 24 h of hypoxia showed significant increases in phospholipase A1 (91%), phospholipase C (75%), and diacylglycerol lipase (57%) activities. Hypoxic exposure of cells for 48 h caused an increase in diacylglycerol lipase activity (54%) only. Hypoxia also caused significant decreases in ATP levels and ATP-dependent arachidonyl coenzyme A (CoA) synthetase activity. Phospholipase A2, lysophosphatidylcholine acyltransferase, and diacylglycerol acyltransferase activities were not influenced by 24 or 48 h of hypoxia. When endothelial cells were prelabeled with [3H]arachidonic acid and then exposed to hypoxia, increased counts were recovered from the free fatty acid fraction of medium and from the cell fatty acid esters, lysophospholipids, diacylglycerols, and triacylglycerols. There was a concomitant decreased recovery of counts from cell phospholipids. These results indicate that hypoxic exposure of endothelial cells altered phospholipid metabolism by activating deacylation pathways and inhibiting reacylation via ATP-dependent arachidonyl CoA synthetase.
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PMID:Effect of hypoxia on phospholipid metabolism in porcine pulmonary artery endothelial cells. 159 Apr 10

In rats fed a fish oil-enriched diet, plasma triacylglycerols were lowered 51%. At the same time there was a mean 45% reduction in Mg2+-dependent phosphatidate phosphohydrolase activity in liver microsomes and a mean 20% decrease in microsomal triacylglycerol (neutral) and diacylglycerol hydrolase activities, but not of diacylglycerol acyltransferase. These observations support the hypothesis that decreases in the activities of phosphatidate phosphohydrolase and of both lipases are involved in the expression of the inhibitory effects of fish oil feeding on hepatic lipoprotein triacylglycerol secretion. Conversely, the feeding of a sucrose-enriched diet resulted in a mean 39% rise in plasma triacylglycerols, a 19% increase in triacylglycerol hydrolase and a mean 45% increase in Mg2+-dependent microsomal phosphohydrolase activity. The effects of the two nutritional interventions on phosphatidate phosphohydrolase activity confirm a key function for this enzyme in triacylglycerol formation.
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PMID:Comparative effects of dietary fish oil and carbohydrate on plasma lipids and hepatic activities of phosphatidate phosphohydrolase, diacylglycerol acyltransferase and neutral lipase activities in the rat. 282 8

In the mammalian myocardium, an active triglyceride synthesis pathway is operating, (re)esterifying activated fatty acids from endogenous or exogenous sources, with the glycolytically derived three-carbon intermediates dihydroxyacetone-phosphate and glycerol-3-phosphate by the so-called Kennedy pathway. The seven enzymes of triglyceride synthesis are membrane bound and located at the sarcoplasmic reticulum. The first enzyme in the glycerol-3-phosphate pathway, glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase, is proposed to be rate limiting for triglyceride formation. This microsomal enzyme is regulated by phosphorylation (inactiycation)-dephosphorylation (activation) coupled to the beta-receptor--adenyl cyclase--protein kinase system. Additional regulatory steps in triglyceride formation are the reactions catalyzed by the microsomal phosphatidic acid phosphatase and diglyceride acyltransferase. Intracellular triglycerides occur as free floating cytosolic droplets, membrane-bound particles and lipid-filled lysosomes. No consensus exists about the metabolically active portion of myocardial triglycerides. Various lipases have been proposed to be involved in endogenous lipolysis: the lysosomal acid, microsomal and soluble neutral triglyceride, intracellular lipoprotein lipases and the microsomal di- and monoglyceridase. It has been acknowledged that the bulk of the intracellular neutral lipase represents the precursor of vascular lipoprotein lipase. The presence of a neutral lipase, as distinct from lipoprotein lipase, in the rat heart was recently advocated. Endogenous lipolysis is a hormone-sensitive process. Hormone-sensitivity may involve direct alteration of enzyme activity by protein phosphorylation-dephosphorylation but is also dependent on the removal rate of product fatty acids, since feedback inhibition is a common property of all lipases in the heart.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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PMID:Synthesis, storage and degradation of myocardial triglycerides. 331 Oct 5

1. The effects of dietary modification, including starvation, and of corticotropin injection on the activities of acyl-CoA synthetase, glycerol phosphate acyltransferase, dihydroxyacetone phosphate acyltransferase, phosphatidate phosphohydrolase, diacylglycerol acyltransferase and lipoprotein lipase were measured in adipose tissue. 2. Lipoprotein lipase activities in heart were increased and those in adipose tissue were decreased when rats were fed on diets enriched with corn oil or beef tallow rather than with sucrose or starch. The lipoprotein lipase activity was lower in the adipose tissue of rats fed on the sucrose rather than on the starch diet. 3. Rats fed on the beef tallow diet had slightly higher activities of the total glycerol phosphate acyltransferase in adipose tissue than did rats fed on the sucrose or starch diet. The diacylglycerol acyltransferase and the mitochondrial glycerol phosphate acyltransferase activities were higher for the rats fed on the tallow diet than for those fed on the corn-oil diet. 4. Starvation significantly decreased the activities of lipoprotein lipase (after 24 and 48 h), acyl-CoA synthetase (after 24 h) and of the mitochondrial glycerol phosphate acyltransferase and the N-ethylmaleimide-insensitive dihydroxyacetone phosphate acyltransferase (after 48 h) in adipose tissue. The activities of the microsomal glycerol phosphate acyltransferase, diacylglycerol acyltransferase and the soluble phosphatidate phosphohydrolase were not significantly changed after 24 or 48 h of starvation. 5. The activities of lipoprotein lipase and phosphatidate phosphohydrolase in adipose tissue were decreased 15 min after corticotropin was injected into rats during November to December. No statistically significant differences were found when these experiments were performed during March to September. These differences may be related to the seasonal variation in acute lipolytic responses. 6. These results are discussed in relation to the control of triacylglycerol synthesis and lipoprotein metabolism.
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PMID:The activities of lipoprotein lipase and of enzymes involved in triacylglycerol synthesis in rat adipose tissue. Effects of starvation, dietary modification and of corticotropin injection. 628 Jun 82

The effect of atorvastatin (3 mg kg(-1) day(-1)), simvastatin (3 mg kg(-1) day(-1)) and bezafibrate (100 mg kg(-1) day(-1)) administered for 4 weeks to male New Zealand white rabbits on enzyme activities related to lipid metabolism has been studied. Only the statins reduced plasma cholesterol values, while none of the drugs modified plasma triglyceride or high density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol concentrations, nor the activity of enzymes such as hepatic diacylglycerol acyltransferase, lipoprotein lipase or hepatic lipase, directly involved in triglyceride metabolism. Both statins elicited similar increases in the hepatic microsomal 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl Coenzyme A (CoA) reductase activity (147 and 109% induction for simvastatin and atorvastatin, respectively), and none of the drugs assayed modified hepatic acyl-coenzyme A:cholesterol acyltransferase activity significantly. Only bezafibrate induced a significant 57% reduction in the activity of hepatic microsomal cholesterol 7alpha-hydroxylase. Regarding the rate limiting enzyme of phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis, CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyl transferase, atorvastatin and bezafibrate behaved similarly, decreasing the enzyme activity in the liver by 45% and 54%, respectively; simvastatin induced no modification of this activity. The reduction of CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyl transferase activity is not caused by a direct inhibition of the enzyme by bezafibrate and atorvastatin. Further, the inhibitory effect of atorvastatin appears to be unrelated to the inhibition of 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl CoA reductase elicited in vivo.
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PMID:Effect of hypolipidemic drugs on key enzyme activities related to lipid metabolism in normolipidemic rabbits. 965 95

The effects of atorvastatin (3 mg kg(-1)) and simvastatin (3 mg kg(-1)) on hepatic enzyme activities involved in very low density lipoprotein metabolism were studied in coconut oil/cholesterol fed rabbits. Plasma cholesterol and triglyceride levels increased 19 and 4 fold, respectively, after 7 weeks of feeding. Treatment with statins during the last 4 weeks of feeding abolished the progression of hypercholesterolaemia and reduced plasma triglyceride levels. 3-Hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl Coenzyme A reductase, acylcoenzyme A:cholesterol acyltransferase, phosphatidate phosphohydrolase and diacylglycerol acyltransferase activities were not affected by drug treatment. Accordingly, hepatic free cholesterol, cholesteryl ester and triglyceride content were not modified. Simvastatin treatment caused an increase (72%) in lipoprotein lipase activity without affecting hepatic lipase activity. Atorvastatin caused a reduction in hepatic phospholipid content and a compensatory increase in CTP:phosphocholine cytidylyl transferase activity. The results presented in this study suggest that, besides the inhibitory effect on 3-hydroxy-3-methyl-glutaryl Coenzyme A reductase, simvastatin and atorvastatin may have additional effects that contribute to their triglyceride-lowering ability.
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PMID:Different effect of simvastatin and atorvastatin on key enzymes involved in VLDL synthesis and catabolism in high fat/cholesterol fed rabbits. 1045 99

Acyl-CoA:diacylglycerol acyltransferase-1 (DGAT1) catalyzes the final step of triglyceride synthesis in mammalian cells. Data obtained from DGAT1-knockout mice have indicated that this enzyme plays an important role in energy homeostasis. We investigated the regulation of the expression and function of DGAT1 in mouse 3T3-L1 cell as a model for mammalian adipocytes. We demonstrated that the DGAT1 protein level increased by approximately 90-fold following differentiation of 3T3-L1 into mature adipocytes, a change that was accompanied by approximately 7-fold increase in DGAT1 mRNA. On the other hand, forced overexpression of DGAT1 mRNA by >20-fold via a recombinant adenovirus only resulted in approximately 2-fold increase in DGAT1 protein in mature adipocytes and little increase in preadipocytes. These results indicated that gene expression of DGAT1 in adipocytes is subjected to rigorous posttranscriptional regulation, which is modulated significantly by the differentiation status of 3T3-L1 cells. Protein stability is not a significant factor in the control of DGAT1 expression. The steady-state levels of DGAT1 were unaffected by blockage of proteolytic pathways by ALLN. However, translational control was suggested by sequence analysis of the 5'-untranslated region of human DGAT1 (hDGAT1) mRNA. We found that the level of DGAT1 activity was predominantly a function of the steady-state level of DGAT1 protein. No significant functional changes were observed when the conserved tyrosine phosphorylation site in hDGAT1 was mutated by a single base pair substitution. Despite only a approximately 2-fold increase in DGAT1 protein caused by recombinant viral transduction, a proportionate increase in cellular triglyceride synthesis resulted without affecting the triglyceride lipolysis rate, leading to >2-fold increase in intracellular triglyceride accumulation. No change in adipocyte morphology or in the expression levels of lipoprotein lipase, proxisomal proliferation-activating receptor-gamma, and aP2 was evident secondary to DGAT1 overexpression at different stages in 3T3-L1 differentiation. These data suggest that dysregulation of DGAT1 may play a role in the development of obesity, and manipulation of the steady-state level of DGAT1 protein may offer a potential means to treat or prevent obesity.
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PMID:Posttranscriptional control of the expression and function of diacylglycerol acyltransferase-1 in mouse adipocytes. 1240 8

To elucidate the role of hormone-sensitive lipase (HSL) in diet-induced obesity, HSL-deficient (HSL-/-) and wild-type mice were fed normal chow or high-fat diets. HSL-/- mice were resistant to diet-induced obesity showing higher core body temperatures. Weight and triacylglycerol contents were decreased in white adipose tissue (WAT) but increased in both brown adipose tissue (BAT) and liver of HSL-/- mice. Serum insulin levels in the fed state and tumor necrosis factor-alpha mRNA levels in adipose tissues were higher, whereas serum levels of adipocyte complement-related protein of 30 kDa (ACRP30)/adiponectin and leptin, as well as mRNA levels of ACRP30/adiponectin, leptin, resistin, and adipsin in WAT, were lower in HSL-/- mice than in controls. Expression of transcription factors associated with adipogenesis (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma, CAAT/enhancer-binding protein-alpha) and lipogenesis (carbohydrate response element-binding protein, adipocyte determination- and differentiation-dependent factor-1/sterol regulatory element-binding protein-1c), as well as of adipose differentiation markers (adipocyte lipid-binding protein, perilipin, lipoprotein lipase), lipogenic enzymes (glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase, acyl-CoA:diacylglycerol acyltransferase-1 and -2, fatty acid synthase, ATP citrate lyase) and insulin signaling proteins (insulin receptor, insulin receptor substrate-1, GLUT4), was suppressed in WAT but not in BAT of HSL-/- mice. In contrast, expression of genes associated with cholesterol metabolism (sterol-regulatory element-binding protein-2, 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase, acyl-CoA:cholesterol acyltransferase-1) and thermogenesis (uncoupling protein-2) was upregulated in both WAT and BAT of HSL-/- mice. Our results suggest that impaired lipolysis in HSL deficiency affects lipid metabolism through alterations of adipose differentiation and adipose-derived hormone levels.
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PMID:Resistance to high-fat diet-induced obesity and altered expression of adipose-specific genes in HSL-deficient mice. 1295 98

It was hypothesized that transcriptional reprogramming is involved in the structural and functional adaptations of lipid metabolism in human tibialis anterior muscle (TA) from endurance-trained male subjects. RT-PCR experiments demonstrated a significant upregulation of the mRNA level of key enzymes involved in 1) lipolytic mobilization of fatty acids (FA) from intramyocellular lipid (IMCL) stores via hormone-sensitive lipase (LIPE), 2) intramyocellular FA transport via muscle fatty acid binding protein (FABP3), and 3) oxidative phosphorylation (cytochrome c oxidase I, COI), in TA of endurance-trained vs. untrained subjects. In contrast, mRNAs for factors involved in glycolysis (muscle 6-phosphofructokinase, PFKM), intramyocellular storage of FA (diacylglycerol O-acyltransferase 1, DGAT), and beta-oxidation (long-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase, ACADL) were invariant between TA of trained and untrained subjects. Correlation analysis identified an association of LIPE with FABP3 and LPL (lipoprotein lipase) mRNA levels and indicated coregulation of the transcript level for LIPE, FABP3, and COI with the level of mRNA encoding peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-alpha (PPAR-alpha), the master regulator of lipid metabolism. Moreover, a significant correlation existed between LPL mRNA and the absolute rate of IMCL repletion determined by magnetic resonance spectroscopy after exhaustive exercise. Additionally, the LIPE mRNA level correlated with ultrastructurally determined IMCL content and mitochondrial volume density. The present data point to a training-induced, selective increase in mRNA levels of enzymes which are involved in metabolization of intramuscular FA, and these data confirm the well-established phenomenon of enhanced lipid utilization during exercise at moderate intensity in muscles of endurance-trained subjects.
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PMID:Transcriptional adaptations of lipid metabolism in tibialis anterior muscle of endurance-trained athletes. 1456 68


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