title: Studies of rat liver microsomal diglyceride acyltransferase and cholinephosphotransferase using microsomal-bound substrate: effects of high fructose intake.
abstract: Radiolabeled phosphatidate and diglyceride were prepared bound to rat liver microsomes. These compounds were used as substrates in studies of diglyceride acyltransferase, cholinephosphotransferase, and CTP:phosphatidic acid cytidylyltransferase. Optimum incubation conditions for these reactions in microsomes from normal male rats are described. High fructose diets were fed to rats for 11 days; this resulted in an increased rate of neutral lipid formation from sn-glycerol-3-phosphate by liver microsomal preparations. This was attributed, in part, to a previously reported increase in liver phosphatidate phosphatase activity. The significance of this increase is supported by the finding of a fall in microsomal phosphatidate content and a doubling in microsomal diglyceride. In addition, diglyceride acyltransferase measured with microsomal-bound diglyceride was increased twofold with no equivalent change in cholinephosphotransferase activity. Such a change should result in preferential triglyceride formation from the increased microsomal diglyceride pool. CTP:phosphatidic acid cytidylytransferase activity was depressed by the high fructose diet. These combined alterations would lead to an accelerated hepatic triglyceride formation, a result found in vivo during high fructose feeding. The high fructose diet decreased slightly the total microsomal phospholipid content and markedly depressed phosphatidylethanolamine levels.
mesh_terms: D000217:Acyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D002794:Choline; D003597:Cytosine Nucleotides; D002798:Diacylglycerol Cholinephosphotransferase / Q000378:metabolism*; D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates / Q000008:administration & dosage; D004075:Diglycerides; D005632:Fructose / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D008862:Microsomes, Liver / Q000201:enzymology*; D009702:Nucleoside Diphosphate Sugars; D009713:Nucleotidyltransferases / Q000378:metabolism; D010743:Phospholipids / Q000378:metabolism; D010770:Phosphotransferases / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D014280:Triglycerides / Q000096:biosynthesis
chemical_list: D003597:Cytosine Nucleotides; D004040:Dietary Carbohydrates; D004075:Diglycerides; D009702:Nucleoside Diphosphate Sugars; D010743:Phospholipids; D014280:Triglycerides; D005632:Fructose; D000217:Acyltransferases; D010770:Phosphotransferases; D009713:Nucleotidyltransferases; D002798:Diacylglycerol Cholinephosphotransferase; D002794:Choline