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Bulutoglu B, Rey-Bedón C, Kang YBA, Mert S, Yarmush ML, Usta OB. A microfluidic patterned model of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: applications to disease progression and zonation. LAB ON A CHIP 2019; 19:3022-3031. [PMID: 31465069 PMCID: PMC6736752 DOI: 10.1039/c9lc00354a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/03/2023]
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Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and its progressive form non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) affect 25% of the world population. NAFLD is predicted to soon become the main cause of liver morbidity and transplantation. The disease is characterized by a progressive increase of lipid accumulation in hepatocytes, which eventually induce fibrosis and inflammation, and can ultimately cause cirrhosis and hepatic carcinoma. Here, we created a patterned model of NAFLD on a chip using free fatty acid gradients to recapitulate a spectrum of disease conditions in a single continuous liver tissue. We established the NAFLD progression via quantification of intracellular lipid accumulation and transcriptional levels of fatty acid transporters and NAFLD pathogenesis markers. We then used this platform to create oxygen driven steatosis zonation mimicking the sinusoidal lipid distribution on a single continuous tissue and showed that this fat zonation disappears under progressed steatosis, in agreement with in vivo observations and recent computational studies. While we focus on free fatty acids and oxygen as the drivers of NAFLD, the microfluidic platform here is extensible to simultaneous use of other drivers.
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- Beyza Bulutoglu
- Center for Engineering in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Shriners Hospitals for Children, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
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Schleicher J, Dahmen U, Guthke R, Schuster S. Zonation of hepatic fat accumulation: insights from mathematical modelling of nutrient gradients and fatty acid uptake. J R Soc Interface 2018; 14:rsif.2017.0443. [PMID: 28835543 DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0443] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/15/2017] [Accepted: 07/28/2017] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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Intrinsic of non-alcoholic fatty liver diseases is an aberrant accumulation of triglycerides (steatosis), which occurs inhomogeneously within lobules. To improve our understanding of the mechanisms involved in this zonation patterning, we developed a mathematical multicompartment model of hepatic fatty acid metabolism accompanied by blood flow simulations. A model analysis determines the influence of the uptake process of fatty acids, the porto-central gradient of plasma fatty acid concentration, and the oxygen supply via blood on the zonation of triglyceride accumulation. From this theoretical perspective, the plasma oxygen gradient, but not the fatty acid gradient, leads the way to a zonated triglyceride accumulation by its decisive role in oxidative processes. In addition, the uptake mechanism of fatty acids seems to be fundamental for a pericentral dominance of steatosis. However, the mechanism of cellular fatty acid uptake from the blood is still under debate. Our theoretical approach supports the transporter-mediated uptake mechanism and reveals that the maximal velocity of fatty acid uptake affects the switching between a periportal and a pericentral triglyceride accumulation. Further research on hepatic fatty acid uptake is needed to push forward our understanding of aberrant triglyceride accumulation in diet-induced steatosis.
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- Jana Schleicher
- Experimental Transplantation Surgery, Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany .,Department of Bioinformatics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Experimental Transplantation Surgery, Department of General, Visceral and Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Jena, Jena, Germany
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- Leibniz Institute for Natural Product Research and Infection Biology - Hans Knoell Institute, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Bioinformatics, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Jena, Germany
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Niot I, Poirier H, Tran TTT, Besnard P. Intestinal absorption of long-chain fatty acids: evidence and uncertainties. Prog Lipid Res 2010; 48:101-15. [PMID: 19280719 DOI: 10.1016/j.plipres.2009.01.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 95] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/13/2023]
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Over the two last decades, cloning of proteins responsible for trafficking and metabolic fate of long-chain fatty acids (LCFA) in gut has provided new insights on cellular and molecular mechanisms involved in fat absorption. To this systematic cloning period, functional genomics has succeeded in providing a new set of surprises. Disruption of several genes, thought to play a crucial role in LCFA absorption, did not lead to clear phenotypes. This observation raises the question of the real physiological role of lipid-binding proteins and lipid-metabolizing enzymes expressed in enterocytes. The goal of this review is to analyze present knowledge concerning the main steps of intestinal fat absorption from LCFA uptake to lipoprotein release and to assess their impact on health.
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- Isabelle Niot
- Physiologie de la Nutrition, UMR Inserm U866, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Biologie Appliquée à la Nutrition et à l'Alimentation, Université de Bourgogne, 1, Esplanade Erasme, F-21000 Dijon, France.
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Derbocio AM, Lopez CH, Bracht L, Bracht A, Ishii-Iwamoto EL. The action of zymosan on octanoate transport and metabolism in the isolated perfused rat liver. J Biochem Mol Toxicol 2009; 23:155-65. [PMID: 19526564 DOI: 10.1002/jbt.20269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The effects of zymosan on transport, distribution, and metabolism of octanoate in the perfused rat liver were investigated using the multiple-indicator dilution technique. Livers were perfused with 300 microM octanoate in the absence or in the presence of 100 microg/mL zymosan. Tracer amounts of [1-14C]octanoate, [3H] water, and [131I]albumin were injected into the portal vein, and the effluent perfusate was fractionated. The normalized dilution curves were analyzed by means of a space-distributed variable transit time model. Zymosan decreased the space into which octanoate undergoes flow-limited distribution, possibly the first cellular exchanging pool represented by plasma membranes and their adjacencies. However, the rate of transfer of octanoate from the plasma membrane into the rest of the cell was not modified as indicated by the similar values of the influx rates and also the net uptake of octanoate per unit of accessible cellular volume. However, when referred to the wet weight of the liver, the net uptake of octanoate was 37.5% reduced, a value corresponding to the diminution of the cellular accessible space. It can be concluded that an exclusion of a fraction of the liver parenchyma from the microcirculation is the main mechanism by which zymosan reduces the metabolism of exogenous octanoate.
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- Alice M Derbocio
- Laboratory of Liver Metabolism, Department of Biochemistry, University of Maringá, 87.020.900 Maringá, Brazil
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Berthiaume M, Laplante M, Festuccia WT, Cianflone K, Turcotte LP, Joanisse DR, Olivecrona G, Thieringer R, Deshaies Y. 11beta-HSD1 inhibition improves triglyceridemia through reduced liver VLDL secretion and partitions lipids toward oxidative tissues. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab 2007; 293:E1045-52. [PMID: 17666487 DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.00276.2007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Tissue-specific alterations in 11beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (HSD) type 1 activity, which amplifies glucocorticoid action, are thought to contribute to some of the metabolic complications of obesity. The present study tested whether hypertriglyceridemia is one such complication by investigating the effects of an 11beta-HSD1 inhibitor (compound A, 3 mgxkg(-1)xday(-1), 21 days) on triglyceride (TG) metabolism in a rat model of diet-induced obesity. The dose of compound A used did not affect food intake or final body weight. Compound A improved fasting triglyceridemia (-42%) through a robust reduction (-41%) in hepatic TG secretion rate, without change in plasma TG clearance rate. Uptake of TG-derived fatty acids was, however, increased in oxidative tissues, including red gastrocnemius (+47%), heart (+39%), and brown adipose tissue (BAT, +46%) at the expense of the liver, with a concomitant increase in plasma membrane fatty acid-binding protein. Lipid oxidation products were increased in red gastrocnemius (+35%) and heart (+33%), as were levels of uncoupling protein 1 mRNA in BAT (+48%), and carnitine palmitoyltransferase 1 activity tended to be increased in some oxidative tissues. These findings demonstrate that pharmacological inhibition of 11beta-HSD1 at a dose that does not affect food intake improves triglyceridemia by reducing hepatic very low density lipoprotein-TG secretion, with a shift in the pattern of TG-derived fatty acid uptake toward oxidative tissues, in which lipid accumulation is prevented by increased lipid oxidation.
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- Magalie Berthiaume
- Faculty of Medicine, Laval Hospital Research Center, Laval Univ., 2725 Ch Sainte-Foy, QC, Canada G1V 4G5
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Arkill KP, Winlove CP. Fatty acid transport in articular cartilage. Arch Biochem Biophys 2006; 456:71-8. [PMID: 17084376 DOI: 10.1016/j.abb.2006.09.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2006] [Revised: 09/13/2006] [Accepted: 09/13/2006] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Articular cartilage extracellular matrix imposes a significant transport barrier to albumin, the principal carrier of fatty acids. It has not been previously established whether it also influences the transport of fatty acids important for chondrocyte metabolism. Albumin was labelled with rhodamine-maleimide and bound to NBD-labelled lauric acid. Plugs of fresh equine metacarpal-phalangeal cartilage and subchondral bone were incubated with the complex at 4 degrees C for 2-160 h. The fluorophore distribution was quantified using quantitative microscopy in histological sections. The fluorescence intensity of both fluorophores fell steeply over 300 microm below the articular surface and remained relatively uniform through the mid zone but the ratio of lauric acid to albumin was higher than in the incubation medium. The effective diffusivity of lauric acid in the mid zone was (2.2+/-0.7) x 10(-12) m2 s(-1) (n = 33), higher than that of the carrier albumin, suggesting dissociation in the surface layer. Lauric acid accumulated reversibly at the tidemark.
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- Kenton Paul Arkill
- Biomedical Physics Group, School of Physics, University of Exeter, Exeter, EX4 4QL, UK.
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Guo W, Huang N, Cai J, Xie W, Hamilton JA. Fatty acid transport and metabolism in HepG2 cells. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2006; 290:G528-34. [PMID: 16254047 DOI: 10.1152/ajpgi.00386.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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The mechanism(s) of fatty acid uptake by liver cells is not fully understood. We applied new approaches to address long-standing controversies of fatty acid uptake and to distinguish diffusion and protein-based mechanisms. Using HepG2 cells containing an entrapped pH-sensing fluorescence dye, we showed that the addition of oleate (unbound or bound to cyclodextrin) to the external buffer caused a rapid (seconds) and dose-dependent decrease in intracellular pH (pH(in)), indicating diffusion of fatty acids across the plasma membrane. pH(in) returned to its initial value with a time course (in min) that paralleled the metabolism of radiolabeled oleate. Preincubation of cells with the inhibitors phloretin or triacsin C had no effect on the rapid pH(in) drop after the addition of oleate but greatly suppressed pH(in) recovery. Using radiolabeled oleate, we showed that its esterification was almost completely inhibited by phloretin or triacsin C, supporting the correlation between pH(in) recovery and metabolism. We then used a dual-fluorescence assay to study the interaction between HepG2 cells and cis-parinaric acid (PA), a naturally fluorescent but slowly metabolized fatty acid. The fluorescence of PA increased rapidly upon its addition to cells, indicating rapid binding to the plasma membrane; pH(in) decreased rapidly and simultaneously but did not recover within 5 min. Phloretin had no effect on the PA-mediated pH(in) drop or its slow recovery but decreased the absolute fluorescence of membrane-bound PA. Our results show that natural fatty acids rapidly bind to, and diffuse through, the plasma membrane without hindrance by metabolic inhibitors or by an inhibitor of putative membrane-bound fatty acid transporters.
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- Wen Guo
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02118, USA
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Rajaraman G, Roberts MS, Hung D, Wang GQ, Burczynski FJ. Membrane binding proteins are the major determinants for the hepatocellular transmembrane flux of long-chain fatty acids bound to albumin. Pharm Res 2005; 22:1793-804. [PMID: 16091995 DOI: 10.1007/s11095-005-7248-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2004] [Accepted: 07/06/2005] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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PURPOSE The hepatic transmembrane flux of long-chain fatty acids (LCFA) occurs through passive and fatty acid transport protein facilitated processes from blood. The extent that these transport processes can be related to the unbound and protein-bound fractions of LCFA in blood is not clear. METHODS We used hepatocyte suspensions, hepatoma monolayers, and perfused rat livers to quantitate the transport of purified [(3)H]palmitate ([(3)H]PA) and 12-(N-methyl)-N-[(7-nitrobenz-2oxa-1,3-diazol-4yl-)amino]octadecanoicacid (12-NBDS) from solutions with a constant unbound LCFA concentration with varying bovine serum albumin (BSA) concentrations and in the presence and absence of antisera raised against cytosolic liver fatty acid binding protein (L-FABP). RESULTS In the absence of L-FABP antisera, using an unbound ligand concentration that was adjusted to remain constant at each BSA concentration, hepatocyte [(3)H]PA and 12-NBDS uptake rates increased linearly with an increase in BSA concentration (p < 0.0001). In the presence of L-FABP antisera, [(3)H]PA uptake showed a greater reduction in the presence of 100 muM BSA than 5 muM BSA. The calculated permeability surface area product (PS) confirmed that both unbound and bound fractions of LCFA contributed to the overall flux, but only the PS for the protein-bound fraction was reduced in the presence of L-FABP antisera. In situ rat liver perfusion studies showed that the only rate process for the disposition of [(3)H]PA in the liver inhibited by L-FABP antisera was that for influx, as defined by PS, and that it reduced PS in the perfused liver by 42%. CONCLUSION These results suggest that, at physiological albumin concentrations, most of the LCFA uptake is mediated from that bound to albumin by a hepatocyte basolateral membrane transport protein, and uptake of unbound LCFA occurring by passive diffusion contributes a minor component.
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- G Rajaraman
- Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Hepatic steatosis is a consequence of both obesity and ethanol use. Nonalcoholic steatosis (NASH) resemble alcoholic steatosis and steatohepatitis. Both exhibit increased hepatocellular triglycerides(TG), reflecting an increase in long chain fatty acids (LCFA). LCFA enter cells by both facilitated transport and passive diffusion. A driving force for both is the plasma unbound LCFA concentration ([LCFAu]). In both obese rodents and obese patients, adipocyte LCFA uptake via both facilitated transport and diffusion is increased. However, the LCFA uptake Vmax in hepatocytes is not increased in obese animals. Nevertheless, total LCFA uptake in obese rodents is increased ~3-fold, reflecting increased plasma LCFA concentrations. With advancing obesity, resistance to the antilipolytic effects of insulin results in increased lipolysis within the omental fat depot, a consequent further rise in portal venous LCFA, and an even greater rise in portal [LCFAu]. This causes a further increase in hepatocellular LCFA uptake, increased intracellular generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS), and transition from simple steatosis to NASH. By contrast, in rodent hepatocytes and in human hepatoma cell lines, ethanol up-regulates the LCFA uptake Vmax. Consequently, although plasma LCFA are unaltered, hepatocellular LCFA uptake in ethanol-fed rats is also increased~3-fold, leading to increased ROS generation and evolution of alcoholic hepatitis. Thus, while increased hepatic LCFA uptake contributes to the pathogenesis of both NASH and alcoholic hepatitis,the underlying mechanisms differ. Recognizing these mechanistic differences is important in developing strategies for both prevention and treatment of these conditions.
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- Michael W Bradbury
- Department of Medicine (Division of Liver Disease), Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1039, New York, NY 10029, USA.
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Black PN, DiRusso CC. Transmembrane movement of exogenous long-chain fatty acids: proteins, enzymes, and vectorial esterification. Microbiol Mol Biol Rev 2003; 67:454-72, table of contents. [PMID: 12966144 PMCID: PMC193871 DOI: 10.1128/mmbr.67.3.454-472.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 178] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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The processes that govern the regulated transport of long-chain fatty acids across the plasma membrane are quite distinct compared to counterparts involved in the transport of hydrophilic solutes such as sugars and amino acids. These differences stem from the unique physical and chemical properties of long-chain fatty acids. To date, several distinct classes of proteins have been shown to participate in the transport of exogenous long-chain fatty acids across the membrane. More recent work is consistent with the hypothesis that in addition to the role played by proteins in this process, there is a diffusional component which must also be considered. Central to the development of this hypothesis are the appropriate experimental systems, which can be manipulated using the tools of molecular genetics. Escherichia coli and Saccharomyces cerevisiae are ideally suited as model systems to study this process in that both (i) exhibit saturable long-chain fatty acid transport at low ligand concentrations, (ii) have specific membrane-bound and membrane-associated proteins that are components of the transport apparatus, and (iii) can be easily manipulated using the tools of molecular genetics. In both systems, central players in the process of fatty acid transport are fatty acid transport proteins (FadL or Fat1p) and fatty acyl coenzyme A (CoA) synthetase (FACS; fatty acid CoA ligase [AMP forming] [EC 6.2.1.3]). FACS appears to function in concert with FadL (bacteria) or Fat1p (yeast) in the conversion of the free fatty acid to CoA thioesters concomitant with transport, thereby rendering this process unidirectional. This process of trapping transported fatty acids represents one fundamental mechanism operational in the transport of exogenous fatty acids.
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- Paul N Black
- The Ordway Research Institute and Center for Cardiovascular Sciences, The Albany Medical College, Albany, New York 12208, USA.
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Cellular uptake of long chain free fatty acids: the structure and function of plasma membrane fatty acid binding protein. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003. [DOI: 10.1016/s1569-2558(03)33004-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Long-chain fatty acids are an important constituent of the diet and they contribute to a multitude of cellular pathways and functions. Uptake of long-chain fatty acids across plasma membranes is the first step in fatty acid utilization, and recent evidence supports an important regulatory role for this process. Although uptake of fatty acids involves two components, passive diffusion through the lipid bilayer and protein-facilitated transfer, the latter component appears to play the major role in mediating uptake by key tissues. Identification of several proteins as fatty acid transporters, and emerging evidence from genetically altered animal models for some of these proteins, has contributed significant insight towards understanding the limiting role of transport in the regulation of fatty acid utilization. We are also beginning to better appreciate how disturbances in fatty acid utilization influence general metabolism and contribute to metabolic pathology.
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- Tahar Hajri
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, New York, 11794-8661, USA.
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Efficient uptake and channeling of long-chain fatty acids (LCFAs) are critical cellular functions. Although spontaneous flip-flop of nonionized LCFAs from one leaflet of a bilayer to the other is rapid, evidence is emerging that proteins are important mediators and/or regulators of trafficking of LCFAs into and within cells. Genetic screens have led to the identification of proteins that are required for fatty acid import and utilization in prokaryotic organisms. In addition, functional screens have elucidated proteins that facilitate fatty acid import into mammalian cells. Although the mechanisms by which these proteins mediate LCFA import are not well understood, studies in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic organisms provide compelling evidence that uptake of LCFAs across cellular membranes is coupled to esterification by acyl-CoA synthetases. This review will summarize results of studies of non-protein-mediated and protein-mediated LCFA transport and discuss how these different mechanisms may contribute to cellular metabolism.
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- Jean E Schaffer
- Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110, USA.
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Hagve TA, Narce M, Tjønneland SE, Odden N, Liabø J, Poisson JP. Desaturation and esterification of fatty acids in kidney cells from spontaneously hypertensive rats. Scandinavian Journal of Clinical and Laboratory Investigation 2001; 61:151-9. [PMID: 11347982 DOI: 10.1080/00365510151097683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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In previous studies, several alterations in lipid metabolism have been related to hypertension, but the mechanisms explaining this relationship have not been elucidated. None of the previous works has focused on the lipid metabolism in kidney, which is a key organ in the overall regulation of blood pressure. The aim of the present work was to study the metabolism of polyunsaturated fatty acids, and the possible compositional changes in kidney from hypertensive rats. Radiolabelled linoleic acid (18:2,n-6) and dihomogammalinolenic acid (20:3, n-6) were incubated with isolated kidney cells from spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) or the parent normotensive strain (Wistar Kyoto, WKY). The rats were divided into groups of age 9 (young) and 17 (adult) weeks. Cellular uptake, desaturation, chain-elongation, oxidation and distribution into phospholipids and triacylglycerols were measured. Additionally, the lipid composition of kidney was characterized. With each of the labelled fatty acid substrates the uptake in cells from the SHR rats, compared to the WKY rats, was numerically lower in the young group and higher in the adult group. The incorporation of labelled fatty acids into phospholipids was increased and concomitantly decreased in triacylglycerols in cells from adult SHR rats. The delta6-desaturation, measured as the conversion of labelled 18:2(n-6) to 18:3(n-6) was between two and three times increased in cells from the adult rats compared to the young ones, while no difference was found in hypertensives compared to normotensives. Concomitantly, no difference in conversion of labelled 20:3(n-6) to 20:4(n-6) was observed in relation to blood pressure, but, different from delta6-desaturation, the delta5-desaturation was significantly decreased by age. Taken together, this study demonstrates for the first time desaturation of long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in isolated kidney cells in suspension and that, contrary to what has been observed in liver, the desaturase activity is unaffected by hypertension. Also different from what has been observed in liver, no blood-pressure-related changes in lipid composition of kidney were found.
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- T A Hagve
- UPRES Lipides et Nutrition, Université de Bourgogne, Faculté des Sciences, Dijon, France
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Stremmel W, Pohl L, Ring A, Herrmann T. A new concept of cellular uptake and intracellular trafficking of long-chain fatty acids. Lipids 2001; 36:981-9. [PMID: 11724471 DOI: 10.1007/s11745-001-0809-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Fatty acids are the main structural and energy sources of the human body. Within the organism, they are presented to cells as fatty acid:albumin complexes. Dissociation from albumin represents the first step of the cellular uptake process, involving membrane proteins with high affinity for fatty acids, e.g., fatty acid translocase (FAT/CD 36) or the membrane fatty acid-binding protein (FABPpm). According to the thus created transmembrane concentration gradient, uncharged fatty acids can flip-flop from the outer leaflet across the phospholipid bilayer. At the cytosolic surface of the plasma membrane, fatty acids can associate with the cytosolic FABP (FABP(c)) or with caveolin-1. Caveolins are constituents of caveolae, which are proposed to serve as lipid delivery vehicles for subcellular organelles. It is not known whether protein (FABP(c))- and lipid (caveolae)-mediated intracellular trafficking of fatty acids operates in conjunction or in parallel. Channeling fatty acids to the different metabolic pathways requires activation to acyl-CoA. For this process, the family of fatty acid transport proteins (FATP 1-5/6) might be relevant because they have been shown to possess acyl-CoA synthetase activity. Their variable N-terminal signaling sequences suggest that they might be targeted to specific organelles by anchoring in the phospholipid bilayer of the different subcellular membranes. At the highly conserved cytosolic AMP-binding site of FATP, fatty acids are activated to acyl-CoA for subsequent metabolic disposition by specific organelles. Overall, fatty acid uptake represents a continuous flow involving the following: dissociation from albumin by membrane proteins with high affinity for fatty acids; passive flip-flop across the phospholipid bilayer; binding to FABP(C) and caveolin-1 at the cytosolic plasma membrane; and intracellular trafficking via FABP(c) and/or caveolae to sites of metabolic disposition. The uptake process is terminated after activation to acyl-CoA by the members of the FATP family targeted intracellularly to different organelles.
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- W Stremmel
- Department of Gastroenterology, Ruprecht-Karls-University, 69115 Heidelberg, Germany.
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Lafond J, Moukdar F, Rioux A, Ech-Chadli H, Brissette L, Robidoux J, Masse A, Simoneau L. Implication of ATP and sodium in arachidonic acid incorporation by placental syncytiotrophoblast brush border and basal plasma membranes in the human. Placenta 2000; 21:661-9. [PMID: 10985969 DOI: 10.1053/plac.2000.0561] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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The human placental syncytiotrophoblast is the main site of exchange of nutrients and minerals between the mother and her fetus. In order to characterize the placental transport of some fatty acids, we studied the incorporation of arachidonic acid, a fetal primordial fatty acid, in purified bipolar syncytiotrophoblast brush border (BBM) and basal plasma membranes (BPM) from human placenta. The basal arachidonic acid incorporation in BBM and BPM was time dependent and reached maximal values of 0.75+/-0.10 and 0.48+/-0.18 pmol/mg protein, respectively, after 2.5 min. The presence of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) (3 m m) increases significantly the maximal incorporation of arachidonic acid by sixfold (4.75+/-0.35 pmol/mg) and ninefold (4.40+/-0.84 pmol/mg) in BBM and BPM, respectively. Moreover, an increase in the arachidonic acid incorporation was also obtained in the presence of sodium where the values achieved 7.68+/-0.98 (10x) and 6.53 pmol/mg (13.6x) for BBM and BPM, respectively. We also showed that the combination of both Na(+)and ATP increases significantly the maximal incorporation of arachidonic acid in BPM to 7.89+/-0.15 pmol/mg protein, while in BBM it did not modify its incorporation (8.18+/-0.25 pmol/mg protein), as compared to the presence of sodium alone. Our results demonstrate that arachidonic acid is incorporated by both placental syncytiotrophoblast membranes, and is ATP and sodium-linked. However, different mechanisms seem to be involved in this fatty acid incorporation through BBM and BPM, since the presence of Na(+)or ATP increased it, while the association of these two elements increased it only in BPM. We also demonstrated by osmolarity experiments that both membranes bind arachidonic acid, potentially involving one or more fatty acids binding proteins.
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- J Lafond
- Laboratoire de Physiologie materno-foetale, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada.
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Rioux V, Lemarchal P, Legrand P. Myristic acid, unlike palmitic acid, is rapidly metabolized in cultured rat hepatocytes. J Nutr Biochem 2000; 11:198-207. [PMID: 10827342 DOI: 10.1016/s0955-2863(00)00065-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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This study was designed to examine and compare the metabolism of myristic and palmitic acids in cultured rat hepatocytes. [1-(14)C]-Labeled fatty acids were solubilized with albumin at 0.1 mmol/L in culture medium. Incubation with 24-hr cultured hepatocytes was carried out for 12 hr. Myristic acid was more rapidly (P < 0.05) taken up by the cells than was palmitic acid (86.9 +/- 0.9% and 68.3 +/- 5.7%, respectively, of the initial radioactivity was cleared from the medium after 4 hr incubation). Incorporation into cellular lipids, however, was similar after the same time (33.4 +/- 2.8% and 34.9 +/- 9.3%, respectively, of initial radioactivity). In the early phase of the incubation (30 min), myristic acid was more rapidly incorporated into cellular triglycerides than was palmitic acid (7.4 +/- 0.9% and 3.6 +/- 1.9%, respectively, of initial radioactivity). However, after 12 hr incubation, the radioactivity of cellular triglycerides, cellular phospholipids, and secreted triglycerides was significantly higher with palmitic acid as precursor. Myristic acid oxidation was significantly higher than that of palmitic acid (14.9 +/- 2.2% and 2.3 +/- 0.6%, respectively, of the initial radioactivity was incorporated into the beta-oxidation products after 4 hr). Myristic acid was also more strongly elongated to radiolabeled palmitic acid (12.2 +/- 0.8% of initial radioactivity after 12 hr) than palmitic acid was to stearic acid (5.1 +/- 1.3% of initial radioactivity after 12 hr). The combination of elongation and beta-oxidation results in the rapid disappearance of C14:0 in hepatocytes whereas C16:0 is esterified to form glycerolipids. This study provides evidence that myristic acid is more rapidly metabolized in cultured hepatocytes than is palmitic acid.
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- V Rioux
- Laboratoire de Biochimie, INRA-ENSA, Rennes, France
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- B I Frohnert
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, 140 Gortner Laboratory, 1479 Gortner Avenue, Saint Paul 55108-1022, USA
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Frohnert BI, Hui TY, Bernlohr DA. Identification of a functional peroxisome proliferator-responsive element in the murine fatty acid transport protein gene. J Biol Chem 1999; 274:3970-7. [PMID: 9933587 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.274.7.3970] [Citation(s) in RCA: 193] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Fatty acid transport protein (FATP), a plasma membrane protein implicated in controlling adipocyte transmembrane fatty acid flux, is up-regulated as a consequence of adipocyte differentiation and down-regulated by insulin. Based upon the sequence of the FATP gene upstream region (Hui, T. Y., Frohnert, B. I., Smith, A. J., Schaffer, J. A., and Bernlohr, D. A. (1998) J. Biol. Chem. 273, 27420-27429) a putative peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor response element (PPRE) is present from -458 to -474. To determine whether the FATP PPRE was functional, and responded to lipid activators, transient transfection of FATP-luciferase reporter constructs into CV-1 and 3T3-L1 cells was carried out. In CV-1 cells, FATP-luciferase activity was up-regulated 4- and 5.5-fold, respectively, by PPARalpha and PPARgamma in the presence of their respective activators in a PPRE-dependent mechanism. PPARdelta, however, was unable to mediate transcriptional activation under any condition. In 3T3-L1 cells, the PPRE conferred a small but significant increase in expression in preadipocytes, as well as a more robust up-regulation of FATP expression in adipocytes. Furthermore, the PPRE conferred the ability for luciferase expression to be up-regulated by activators of both PPARgamma and retinoid X receptor alpha (RXRalpha) in a synergistic manner. PPARalpha and PPARdelta activators did not up-regulate FATP expression in 3T3-L1 adipocytes, however, suggesting that these two subtypes do not play a significant role in differentiation-dependent activation in fat cells. Electromobility shift assays showed that all three PPAR subtypes were able to bind specifically to the PPRE as heterodimers with RXRalpha. Nuclear extracts from 3T3-L1 adipocytes also showed a specific gel-shift complex with the FATP PPRE. To correlate the expression of FATP to its physiological function, treatment of 3T3-L1 adipocytes with PPARgamma and RXRalpha activators resulted in an increased uptake of oleate. Moreover, linoleic acid, a physiological ligand, up-regulated FATP expression 2-fold in a PPRE-dependent manner. These results demonstrate that the FATP gene possesses a functional PPRE and is up-regulated by activators of PPARalpha and PPARgamma, thereby linking the activity of the protein to the expression of its gene. Moreover, these results have implications for the mechanism by which certain PPARgamma activators such as the antidiabetic thiazolidinedione drugs affect adipose lipid metabolism.
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- B I Frohnert
- Department of Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Biophysics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA
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Stuhlsatz-Krouper SM, Bennett NE, Schaffer JE. Substitution of alanine for serine 250 in the murine fatty acid transport protein inhibits long chain fatty acid transport. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:28642-50. [PMID: 9786857 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.44.28642] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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The murine fatty acid transport protein (FATP) was identified on the basis of its ability to facilitate uptake of long chain fatty acids (LCFAs) when expressed in mammalian cells. To delineate FATP domains important for transport function, we cloned the human heart FATP ortholog. Comparison of the human, murine, and yeast amino acid sequences identified a highly conserved motif, IYTSGTTGXPK, also found in a number of proteins that form adenylated intermediates. We demonstrate that depletion of intracellular ATP dramatically reduces FATP-mediated LCFA uptake. Furthermore, wild-type FATP specifically binds [alpha-32P]azido-ATP. Introduction of a serine to alanine substitution (S250A) in the IYTSGTTGXPK motif produces an appropriately expressed and metabolized mutant FATP that demonstrates diminished LCFA transport function and decreased [alpha-32P]azido-ATP binding. These results are consistent with a mechanism of action for FATP involving ATP binding that is dependent on serine 250 of the IYTSGTTGXPK motif.
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- S M Stuhlsatz-Krouper
- Center for Cardiovascular Research, Department of Internal Medicine and the Department of Molecular Biology and Pharmacology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri 63110-1010, USA
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Hagve TA, Woldseth B, Brox J, Narce M, Poisson JP. Membrane fluidity and fatty acid metabolism in kidney cells from rats fed purified eicosapentaenoic acid or purified docosahexaenoic acid. Scand J Clin Lab Invest 1998; 58:187-94. [PMID: 9670342 DOI: 10.1080/00365519850186571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Rats were given a supplement (1.5 ml/day) of purified eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA, 20:5,n-3), purified docosahexaenoic acid (DHA, 22:6,n-3)), or corn oil for 10 days. Membrane fluidity, measured as the steady-state fluorescence polarization of diphenylhexatriene (DPH), was approximately 20% lower in kidney cells from rats fed purified EPA than in cells from the DHA-fed or corn-oil fed animals. The level of 20:5(n-3) in kidney phospholipids was 18 times higher in rats fed EPA, and four times higher in those fed DHA as compared to the corn-oil group. The level of arachidonic acid (20:4,n-6) was concomitantly decreased, while linoleic acid (18:2,n-6) was increased in kidney-phospholipids in the n-3 fatty acid fed rats. The proportion of 22:6(n-3) in kidney phospholipids was not affected by EPA supplementation, while the DHA diet slightly increased the level of this fatty acid. The distribution of phospholipid subclasses was significantly altered in that phosphatidylcholine was increased and phosphatidylethanolamine was concomitantly decreased. It is suggested that the decrease in 20:4(n-6) is relatively more important in the regulation of fluidity than a concomitant increase in 20:5(n-3). It is also suggested that the compensatory modifications of the phospholipid subclass distribution as a response to decreased 20:4(n-6)/20:5(n-3) ratio was not sufficient to maintain fluidity when the ratio was as low as in the present study. The incorporation of labelled linolenic acid (18:3,n-3) in phospholipids was decreased in cells from the n-3 supplemented rats. Since endogenous 22:5(n-3) in phospholipids was only increased in the EPA group, 22:6(n-3) only in the DHA group, and 20:5(n-3) in both, it is suggested that the decreased incorporation of labelled 18:3(n-3) into phospholipids of the DHA-fed rats in particular is correlated to the increased level of 22:6(n-3) in the membrane phospholipids. The incorporation of fatty acids into phopholipids may thus show substrate specificity, in that 22:6(n-3) is less exchangable with labelled 18:3(n-3) than is 20:5(n-3). These results demonstrate that increasing levels of n-3 fatty acids in membranes affect the uptake and intracellular metabolism of fatty acids as well as membrane fluidity in the kidney.
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- T A Hagve
- Institute of Clinical Biochemistry, University of Oslo, Rikshospitalet, Norway
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Bojesen IN, Bojesen E. Arachidonic acid transfer across the human red cell membrane by a specific transport system. ACTA PHYSIOLOGICA SCANDINAVICA 1995; 154:253-67. [PMID: 7572221 DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-1716.1995.tb09907.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The exchange efflux kinetics of [3H]arachidonate at 0 degrees C, pH 7.3 from human red cell ghosts to bovine serum albumin (BSA) in buffer is analysed in terms of a closed three-compartment model. Using albumin-free ghosts the kinetics determines the model parameters: (1) The ratio of arachidonate bound to the inner membrane leaflet to that bound to the outer leaflet (B/E), 0.30 +/- 0.03 and (2) the rate constant of unidirectional flux through the membrane from B to E (k3), 0.39 +/- 0.03 s-1. From the model parameter estimates and knowledge of apparent equilibrium constants of arachidonate binding to ghost membrane and to albumin, we estimate the dissociation rate constant of arachidonate-albumin complex (k1) to 0.21 +/- 0.02 s-1. The lowest rate coefficient (delta) of efflux kinetics from albumin-filled ghosts decreases by approximately sevenfold over a 10-fold increase in intracellular albumin. These delta-values fit fairly well with the values predicted by the corresponding model with an unstirred intracellular compartment using the parameter values obtained in the studies with ghosts without BSA. Model parameters for arachidonate efflux are completely different from those obtained for palmitate, suggesting that different transport systems determine arachidonate and palmitate membrane transfer. The data show that binding to a limited number of specific sites is functioning as the initial and obligatory step in the transport. We propose that a protein is directly or indirectly controlling the transport capacity.
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- I N Bojesen
- Department of Medical Biochemistry & Genetics, University of Copenhagen, The Panum Institute, Denmark
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Trotter PJ, Voelker DR. Lipid transport processes in eukaryotic cells. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1213:241-62. [PMID: 8049239 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(94)00073-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 78] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- P J Trotter
- Lord and Taylor Laboratory for Lung Biochemistry, National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, CO 80206
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Goresky CA, Stremmel W, Rose CP, Guirguis S, Schwab AJ, Diede HE, Ibrahim E. The capillary transport system for free fatty acids in the heart. Circ Res 1994; 74:1015-26. [PMID: 8187271 DOI: 10.1161/01.res.74.6.1015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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The nature of the process by which free fatty acids, which are tightly bound to albumin, traverse the endothelium of cardiac capillaries to reach the cardiac muscle cells, so that they are extracted to a net extent of approximately 40%, needs clarification. Previous studies have indicated that a membrane fatty acid-binding protein provides for carrier-mediated uptake of free fatty acids by isolated hepatocytes, cardiomyocytes, and jejunal mucosal cells. A monoclonal monospecific antibody was prepared against purified membrane fatty acid-binding protein from rat liver. Multiple-indicator dilution experiments were carried out in the isolated rat heart with labeled albumin, sucrose, and palmitate in the presence of control perfusate or perfusate containing either specific antibody or comparable nonspecific myeloma cell supernatant (each of the latter containing additional albumin, in identical concentrations). Analysis of the labeled-sucrose curves provided a permeability-surface area product for sucrose to which that for palmitate could be compared. In comparison with control supernatants, myeloma supernatant produced a minor inhibition of palmitate uptake, as a result of the increase in albumin concentration. The specific antibody, which contained identical albumin concentrations, produced a major inhibition of palmitate uptake, significantly greater than with the myeloma supernatant. The data indicate that the membrane fatty acid-binding protein mediates the transfer of free fatty acid across the endothelial cells of cardiac capillaries for presentation to heart muscle. Passive intramembrane lateral diffusion of palmitate could not provide an explanation for the findings.
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- C A Goresky
- University Medical Clinic, Montreal General Hospital, Quebec, Canada
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Uriel J, Torres JM, Anel A. Carrier-protein-mediated enhancement of fatty-acid binding and internalization in human T-lymphocytes. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1220:231-40. [PMID: 7508265 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4889(94)90143-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Albumin and alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) are members of a multigene family which also includes vitamin-D-binding protein. Previous work in our laboratory has provided experimental support for the suggestion that the entry of unsaturated fatty acids into growing, normal and neoplastic cells may be regulated by AFP. In the actual study we have examined the role of human serum albumin (HSA) as a carrier protein, when compared to AFP, on the uptake (binding and internalization) of fatty acids by resting and PHA-activated human lymphocytes. Radioiodinated human HSA and tritiated oleic and arachidonic acids were used under different experimental conditions to follow the binding of the protein and fatty acids (FA) to cells. Time-course uptake at 4 degrees C of HSA and of oleic and arachidonic acids bound to HSA (FA/HSA molar ratio = 1) by either resting or activated T-lymphocytes exhibited a steady state of binding. The amount of FA bound was much greater than the corresponding amount of HSA, suggesting that T-lymphocytes bear distinct binding sites for albumin and fatty acids. A saturable process of FA binding was observed at constant unbound FA concentration in the incubation medium when the HSA-to-FA molar ratio was fixed at 1 and the concentrations of both HSA and FA were increased simultaneously. This saturable component of binding reflects an intrinsic regulatory effect of HSA, probably operating throughout the interaction of the protein with specific cell receptors. At varying unbound FA concentrations, binding curves showed two distinct components: a non-linear portion which could indicate the presence of a saturable process operating at low concentrations of unbound, free FA, followed by a second part which increased linearly with the concentration of unbound FA. The amount of FA bound at 4 degrees C and bound and internalized at 37 degrees C by both types of cell was considerably higher in the presence than in the absence of carrier proteins. On the contrary, carrier proteins were without effect on the distribution pattern of internalized oleic or arachidonic acid. Taken together, these observations suggest that: (i) the binding and entry of FA into cells is enhanced by the two carrier-proteins at low concentrations of free, unbound fatty acids in the vicinity of the cell surface, and (ii) fatty-acid uptake seems regulated by a dual-receptor mechanism involving HSA and/or AFP receptors as well as plasma-membrane FA-binding proteins.
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- J Uriel
- Laboratoire de Chimie des Protéines, Institut de Recherches sur le Cancer (CNRS), Villejuif, France
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Schürer NY, Stremmel W, Grundmann JU, Schliep V, Kleinert H, Bass NM, Williams ML. Evidence for a novel keratinocyte fatty acid uptake mechanism with preference for linoleic acid: comparison of oleic and linoleic acid uptake by cultured human keratinocytes, fibroblasts and a human hepatoma cell line. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1994; 1211:51-60. [PMID: 8123682 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(94)90138-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 43] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Keratinocytes require the essential fatty acid (FA), linoleic acid (LA), for the synthesis of stratum corneum membrane lipids. A plasma membrane-FA binding protein (PM-FABP), is postulated to mediate cellular FA-uptake in hepatocytes and several other tissues, but the mechanism whereby exogenous FA are taken up by keratinocytes has not been investigated. This study examines the uptake of LA and oleic acid (non-essential) in cultured human keratinocytes, in comparison to dermal fibroblasts and the human hepatoma cell line, HepG2. As previously reported for hepatocytes, FA-uptake in keratinocytes was curvilinear, with an initial (30 s) rapid cellular influx. The initial uptake component was temperature dependent, exhibited saturable kinetics and was significantly inhibited by pretreatment with trypsin. In contrast, fibroblast FA-uptake lacked an initial rapid uptake component, was relatively temperature insensitive, and was not inhibited by trypsin. Keratinocytes differed from both hepatocytes and fibroblasts by more rapid uptake of LA in comparison to oleic acid during the initial influx phase. Moreover, FA-uptake in keratinocytes was not inhibited by preincubation with a anti-rat liver PM-FABP antibody. These data provide evidence for a PM-FA transporter in keratinocytes that is distinct from the hepatic PM-FABP. The apparent preference of the putative keratinocyte FA transporter for LA may function to ensure epidermal capture of sufficient LA for barrier lipid synthesis.
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- N Y Schürer
- Hautklinik, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
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Zhou SL, Stump D, Isola L, Berk PD. Constitutive expression of a saturable transport system for non-esterified fatty acids in Xenopus laevis oocytes. Biochem J 1994; 297 ( Pt 2):315-9. [PMID: 8297337 PMCID: PMC1137831 DOI: 10.1042/bj2970315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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In the presence of 150 microM BSA, uptake of [3H]oleate by Xenopus laevis oocytes was a saturable function of the unbound oleate concentration (Vmax. 110 +/- 4 pmol/h per oocyte; Km 193 +/- 11 nM unbound oleate). Oleate uptake was three orders of magnitude faster than that of another test substance, [35S]bromosulphophthalein, and was competitively inhibited by 55 nM unbound palmitate (Vmax. 111 +/- 14 pmol/h per oocyte; Km 424 +/- 63 nM unbound oleate) (P < 0.01). Oleate uptake was also inhibited by antibodies to a 43 kDa rat liver plasma-membrane fatty acid-binding protein, a putative transporter of long-chain fatty acids in mammalian cells; uptake of the medium-chain fatty acid [14C]octanoate was unaffected. Immunofluorescence and immunoblotting demonstrated that the antiserum reacted with a single 43 kDa protein on the oocyte surface. Hence a protein related to the mammalian plasma-membrane fatty acid-binding protein may play a role in saturable uptake of long-chain fatty acids by Xenopus oocytes.
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- S L Zhou
- Department of Medicine Division of Liver Disease, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029
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Vyska K, Stremmel W, Meyer W, Notohamiprodjo G, Minami K, Meyer H, Körfer R. Effects of temperature and sodium on myocardial and hepatocellular fatty acid uptake. Circ Res 1994; 74:1-13. [PMID: 8261582 DOI: 10.1161/01.res.74.1.1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Fatty acid influx into human myocardium was studied in 15 patients during the cooling phase of cardiopulmonary bypass at myocardial temperatures of 37 degrees to 25 degrees C. The fitting of the data to a functional relation, developed in this study, revealed fatty acid influx to be a temperature-dependent saturable process corresponding to a Michaelis-Menten constant (Km) at 37 degrees C of 0.26 +/- 0.084 mumol/g, a maximal fatty acid influx velocity (Vmax) at 37 degrees C of 0.28 +/- 0.045 mumol/g per minute, activation energy for fatty acid binding to the putative carrier (E) of 23.8 +/- 5.6 kcal/mol, and a free energy for conformational change of the carrier (U) of 10.9 +/- 8.0 kcal/mol. In short-term cultured hepatocytes, Km increased in the absence of Na+ from 171 +/- 48 to 301 +/- 71 nmol/L, and Vmax of [3H]oleate decreased from 1063 +/- 69 to 847 +/- 68 pmol/min per milligram protein. The fitting of these data to a functional relation revealed a transmembrane potential-dependent component of parameters E and U to be -0.479 and -0.374 kcal/mol, respectively. It is proposed that for fatty acid influx a protonated fatty acid form is preferred that consists of a Na+ complex with the mesomeric form of nondissociated fatty acid from which Na+ and H+ are released during collision with the carrier.
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- K Vyska
- Institute of Molecular Biophysics, Radiopharmacy and Nuclear Medicine, Heart Center North-Rhine Westphalia, University of Bochum, Germany
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Petzinger E. Transport of organic anions in the liver. An update on bile acid, fatty acid, monocarboxylate, anionic amino acid, cholephilic organic anion, and anionic drug transport. Rev Physiol Biochem Pharmacol 1994; 123:47-211. [PMID: 8209137 DOI: 10.1007/bfb0030903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- E Petzinger
- Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University Giessen, Germany
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Guzmán M, Geelen MJ. Regulation of fatty acid oxidation in mammalian liver. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1993; 1167:227-41. [PMID: 8097629 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(93)90224-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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- M Guzmán
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology I, Faculty of Chemistry, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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Adipocyte differentiation of 3T3-L1 cells involves augmented expression of a 43-kDa plasma membrane fatty acid-binding protein. J Biol Chem 1992. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(19)49734-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Diede HE, Rodilla-Sala E, Gunawan J, Manns M, Stremmel W. Identification and characterization of a monoclonal antibody to the membrane fatty acid binding protein. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1125:13-20. [PMID: 1567903 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(92)90149-p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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A monoclonal antibody to the rat liver membrane fatty acid binding protein (MFABP) was prepared by immunizing mice with purified MFABP isolated from solubilized rat liver plasma membrane proteins by oleate-agarose affinity chromatography technique. The monoclonal antibody K15/6 identified a single 40 kDa protein in rat liver plasma membranes with pI values of 8.5, 8.8 and 9.0, which is identical to the authentic MFABP, but clearly distinct from rat mitochondrial GOT. The antibody K15/6 selectively inhibited cellular influx as well as membrane binding of fatty acids, but not of cholesterol or vitamin E. The same antibody was used in immunofluorescence, ELISA and Western blot analysis to determine the subcellular and organ distribution pattern of MFABP. The protein was identified in rat liver plasma membranes and mitochondria, but in no other cell compartment. It was detectable in homogenates of rat liver but not in homogenates of other organs. Therefore, the monoclonal antibody K15/6 represents an organ specific antibody to MFABP which reveals inhibitory action on membrane binding/transport of fatty acids.
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- H E Diede
- Department of Internal Medicine, Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Germany
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Ferraresi-Filho O, Ferraresi ML, Constantin J, Ishii-Iwamoto EL, Schwab AJ, Bracht A. Transport and metabolism of palmitate in the rat liver. Net flux and unidirectional fluxes across the cell membrane. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1992; 1103:239-49. [PMID: 1543709 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2736(92)90093-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The unidirectional fluxes of palmitate across the liver cell membrane and metabolic uptake rates were measured employing the multiple-indicator dilution technique. The following results were obtained: (1) Influx and net uptake rates do not vary proportionally to each other when albumin and palmitate concentrations are varied. (2) Efflux is significant for albumin concentrations in the range between 1.5 and 500 microM. (3) At 150 microM albumin net uptake rates are proportional to the total (bound plus free) extracellular palmitate concentration in the range from 10 to 600 microM; the dependence of influx rates on the palmitate concentration is rather concave up. (4) When albumin and palmitate are both varied at an equimolar ratio, pseudo-saturation appears in the net uptake rates; the influx rates also show pseudo-saturation, but with a declining tendency at the higher concentrations. (5) The intracellular palmitate concentration is strongly influenced by albumin. At very low concentrations of the protein (1.5 microM) the intracellular concentration is practically equal to the extracellular one; at physiological albumin concentrations, however, the intracellular palmitate concentration is less than 2% of the extracellular one. (6) Saturation of net uptake with respect to the intracellular palmitate concentration was not observed with concentrations up to 46 microM.
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Paulussen RJ, Veerkamp JH. Intracellular fatty-acid-binding proteins. Characteristics and function. Subcell Biochem 1990; 16:175-226. [PMID: 2238003 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-1621-1_7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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- R J Paulussen
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Stremmel W, Hofmann AF. Intestinal absorption of unconjugated dihydroxy bile acids: non-mediation by the carrier system involved in long chain fatty acid absorption. Lipids 1990; 25:11-6. [PMID: 2325504 DOI: 10.1007/bf02562421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Experiments were performed using isolated mucosal cells from the rat jejunum or using the perfused jejunum in the anesthetized rat to test whether lipophilic unconjugated dihydroxy bile acids are absorbed from the proximal small intestine via the same carrier mechanism involved in the uptake of long chain fatty acids. With isolated jejunal mucosal cells, the cellular uptake rate of deoxycholic acid or chenodeoxycholic acid increased linearly with time, showed no evidence of saturation, and was not decreased by the presence of a monospecific antibody to the membrane fatty acid binding protein. In contrast, oleate uptake was saturable, was inhibited by the same antibody, but was not affected by the presence of chenodeoxycholic acid or deoxycholic acid. Bile acid uptake by isolated enterocytes occurred at one-eighth the rate of fatty acid uptake if expressed in relation to total solute concentration; if expressed in relation to monomeric concentration, initial bile acid uptake was four orders of magnitude slower than fatty acid uptake. In the isolated perfused jejunal segment, chenodeoxycholic acid and deoxycholic acid uptake was not influenced by the presence of the antibody to membrane fatty acid binding protein, whereas absorption of oleate was inhibited by more than 70%. These experiments indicate that absorption of unconjugated lipophilic dihydroxy bile acids in the rodent jejunum does not involve the carrier mediated uptake mechanism involved in the absorption of long chain fatty acids--the mechanism is likely to be passive nonionic diffusion.
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- W Stremmel
- Department of Internal Medicine, University Clinics of Dusseldorf, Federal Republic of Germany
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Stremmel W, Falbrede J, Diede HE, Elsing C. Cellular influx of sulfobromophthalein by the biliary epithelium carcinoma cell line Sk-Cha-1 reveals kinetic criteria of a carrier-mediated uptake mechanism. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1989; 1014:108-11. [PMID: 2819084 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4889(89)90021-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Cellular uptake of the cholephilic organic anion sulphobromophthalein (BSP) by the human biliary epithelium carcinoma cell line Sk-Cha-1 was examined at 37 degrees C. In confluent monolayer cultures the cellular influx rate of increasing concentrations of [35S]BSP followed saturation kinetics with a Km value of 18 microM and a Vmax value of 243 pmol.min-1.mg protein-1. Uptake of [35S]BSP was competitively inhibited by the presence of bilirubin diglucuronide, but not by taurocholate or cholate. Furthermore, uptake was temperature dependent with maximal cellular influx rates at 37 degrees C.
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- W Stremmel
- Department of Internal Medicine, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, F.R.G
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In recent years a new concept of the mechanism of hepatic fatty acid uptake has been described. It was shown that this major class of energy yielding substrates enters hepatocytes by a carrier-mediated uptake system. After the dissociation of the fatty acid-albumin complex at the sinusoidal liver cell plasma membrane, fatty acid binds with high affinity to a specific, newly identified, 40 kDa membrane fatty acid binding protein (MFABP). This protein functions as transmembrane transporter for long chain fatty acids. Hepatocellular uptake of fatty acids was shown to be sodium-dependent and electrogenic, compatible with a Na+-fatty acid cotransport system.
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- W Stremmel
- Abteilung für Gastroenterologie, Universitätskliniken Düsseldorf, F.R.G
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Stremmel W, Diede HE. Fatty acid uptake by human hepatoma cell lines represents a carrier-mediated uptake process. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1989; 1013:218-22. [PMID: 2553104 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4889(89)90138-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Cellular influx kinetics of a representative long chain fatty acid, [3H]oleate, were examined in monolayer cultures of three different human hepatoma cell lines (Hep G2; PLC/PRF 5; Mz-Hep-1). The cultures were incubated with 173 microM [3H]oleate in the presence of various concentrations of albumin which served to modulate the unbound oleate concentration in the medium. For all [3H]oleate-albumin complexes incubated, it was shown that cellular uptake of [3H]oleate over the initial 30 s incubation period was maximal, linear and independent of intracellular fatty acid metabolism, representing cellular influx. With increasing unbound oleate concentrations in the medium cellular influx by all three cell lines revealed similar saturation kinetics with Km values of 112.6 +/- 14.5 nM and Vmax values of 7.19 +/- 0.32 nmol.min-1 per mg cell protein. When these hepatoma cell lines were pretreated with the IgG fraction of a monospecific antibody to the rat liver membrane fatty acid binding protein (MFABP), initial uptake of [3H]oleate was selectively inhibited compared to controls pretreated with the IgG fraction of the preimmune serum. Furthermore, immunoblot analysis with the monospecific antibody to the rat MFABP revealed reactivity with a single 40 kDa protein in the homogenates of all three cell lines. These data suggest that uptake of fatty acids by human hepatoma cells may be mediated by a specific membrane fatty acid binding protein.
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- W Stremmel
- Department of Internal Medicine, University Clinics of Düsseldorf, F.R.G
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Noy N, Donnelly TM, Cooper RB, Zakim D. The physical-chemical basis for sex-related differences in uptake of fatty acids by the liver. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA 1989; 1003:125-30. [PMID: 2730886 DOI: 10.1016/0005-2760(89)90245-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The uptake of fatty acids by the liver was shown previously to be a non-catalyzed process, and rates of uptake were correlated to the affinity of the plasma membranes of liver cells for fatty acids. The experiments in this paper were designed to test whether the known differences in uptake and metabolism of free fatty acids by the livers of male and female rats could be understood based on differences in the affinities of the corresponding plasma membranes for these substrates. The relative affinities for palmitate and oleate of 'male' plasma membranes were found to be lower versus 'female' membranes. Measurements of uptake of palmitate from albumin-palmitate complexes by 'male' and 'female' perfused livers showed higher uptake rates by the latter when correlated with the concentration of the complex. However, the rates of uptake were identical when the concentrations of the fatty acid in the plasma membranes of male and female liver cells were the same.
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- N Noy
- Department of Medicine, Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY 10021
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Stremmel W. Uptake of fatty acids by jejunal mucosal cells is mediated by a fatty acid binding membrane protein. J Clin Invest 1988; 82:2001-10. [PMID: 3198762 PMCID: PMC442782 DOI: 10.1172/jci113820] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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The previous identification of a membrane fatty acid binding protein (MFABP) in brush border plasma membranes of the jejunum suggested that mucosal cell uptake of fatty acids might represent a carrier-mediated transport system. For evaluation of this hypothesis cellular influx kinetics (V0) of [3H]-oleate were examined in isolated rat jejunal mucosal cells. With increasing unbound oleate concentration in the medium V0 was saturable (Km = 93 nM; Vmax = 2.1 nmol X min-1 per 10(6) cells) and temperature dependent with an optimum at 37 degrees C. Pretreatment of the cells with a monospecific antibody to MFABP significantly inhibited V0 of oleate, other long-chain fatty acids, and D-monopalmitin, but not of L-alanine. Moreover, in the in vivo system of isolated perfused jejunal segments the physiologic significance of MFABP in the directed overall intestinal absorption process of fatty acids was documented. In the presence of the anti-MFABP oleate absorption was markedly reduced, whereas uptake of L-alanine remained unaltered. By antibody inhibition studies it was suggested that this membrane carrier also reveals transport competence for various other long-chain fatty acids, D-monopalmitin, L-lysophosphatidylcholine, and cholesterol. These data support the hypothesis that absorption of fatty acids is mediated by a fatty acid binding membrane protein.
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- W Stremmel
- Department of Medicine, University Clinics of Düsseldorf, Federal Republic of Germany
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Emmison N, Agius L. Fatty acid uptake and metabolism to ketone bodies and triacyglycerol in rat and human hepatocyte cultures is dependent on chain-length and degree of saturation. Effects of carnitine and glucagon. FEBS Lett 1988; 236:83-8. [PMID: 3402619 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(88)80289-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023]
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Rat and human hepatocyte cultures were incubated with 5 common plasma longchain fatty acids (C16-C18). Rates of fatty acid uptake were similar in rat and human hepatocytes and were of the order: 16:1 greater than 16:0; 18:2 greater than 18:1 greater than 18:0. Rates of ketogenesis were lower in human compared to rat hepatocytes. In rat hepatocytes glucagon stimulated ketogenesis only in the presence of exogenous carnitine and rates of ketogenesis were higher from unsaturated compared to corresponding saturated fatty acids. Glucagon decreased triacylglycerol secretion irrespective of the fatty acid substrate and it increased intracellular triacylglycerol accumulation. The latter effect of glucagon was more marked in the absence of carnitine supplementation.
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- N Emmison
- Department of Medicine, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, England
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Although hepatocellular uptake of bilirubin and fatty acids represents a major function of the liver, little was known about the molecular mechanism of their translocation across the plasma membrane. This review provides evidence that these classes of albumin-bound organic anions enter hepatocytes via specific membrane associated carrier systems. After dissociation of the albumin-ligand complexes at the cell surface, bilirubin and related cholephilic organic anions bind to a 55 kDa membrane glycoprotein, while fatty acids bind to a 40 kDa membrane protein. Both proteins function as carrier of their respective ligand across the plasma membrane. Although the driving forces for the influx of bilirubin are still unknown, it could be demonstrated that the translocation of fatty acids across the plasma membrane is driven by an active, potential-sensitive, sodium-dependent transport system.
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- W Stremmel
- Department of Internal Medicine, University of Düsseldorf, FRG
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Stremmel W. Fatty acid uptake by isolated rat heart myocytes represents a carrier-mediated transport process. J Clin Invest 1988; 81:844-52. [PMID: 3343344 PMCID: PMC442535 DOI: 10.1172/jci113393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 177] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/05/2023] Open
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The mechanism by which fatty acids enter cardiomyocytes is unclear. Therefore, the influx kinetics of [3H]oleate into isolated rat heart myocytes were examined. Cells were incubated at 37 degrees C with [3H]oleate bound to albumin in various molar ratios and the initial rate of uptake (V0) was determined as a function of the unbound oleate concentration in the medium. V0 was saturable with increasing oleate concentrations incubated (Km 78 nM; Vmax 1.9 nmol X min-1 per 10(6) cells) and temperature dependent with an optimum at 37 degrees C. Furthermore, binding of [3H]oleate to isolated plasma membranes of cardiomyocytes was saturable, revealing a KD of 42 nM, and was inhibited by heat denaturation or trypsin pretreatment of the membranes. From these membranes a single 40-kD protein with high affinity for a variety of long chain fatty acids was isolated. With a monospecific antibody to this membrane protein, binding as well as cellular influx of [3H]oleate was selectively inhibited. These data indicate that at least a portion of myocardial fatty acid uptake is mediated by a specific membrane protein.
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- W Stremmel
- Department of Medicine, University Clinics of Düsseldorf, Federal Republic of Germany
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Bass NM. The cellular fatty acid binding proteins: aspects of structure, regulation, and function. INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF CYTOLOGY 1988; 111:143-84. [PMID: 3074959 DOI: 10.1016/s0074-7696(08)61733-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 246] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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- N M Bass
- Department of Medicine and Liver Center, University of California, San Francisco 94143
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Stremmel W. Translocation of fatty acids across the basolateral rat liver plasma membrane is driven by an active potential-sensitive sodium-dependent transport system. J Biol Chem 1987. [DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9258(18)45566-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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