title: Fatty acid-binding capacity of cytosolic proteins of various rat tissues: effect of postnatal development, starvation, sex, clofibrate feeding and light cycle.
abstract: Fatty acid-binding capacity of dealbuminized, delipidated cytosolic proteins from rat tissues was studied with a radiochemical binding assay. Oleate-binding capacity ranges from 1.6 to 4.4 pmol/micrograms cytosolic protein in liver, heart, kidney, adrenal, brain, skeletal muscle and diaphragm. Differences in binding affinity indicate the presence of different fatty acid-binding proteins in these tissues. No change in fatty acid-binding protein content of heart and liver cytosol was observed during postnatal development up to 70 days. Starvation did not affect the fatty acid-binding capacity of heart cytosol, but increased the oleate-binding capacity in liver cytosol. Sex-related differences of binding by heart and liver cytosolic proteins were found with oleate, but not with palmitate. Fatty acid-binding capacity of liver and heart cytosol did not show marked diurnal variation. Clofibrate treatment had different effects on the oleate-binding capacity of cytosolic proteins: an increase in liver and kidney, no change in skeletal muscle and a decrease in heart. The results are discussed in relation to data concerning fatty acid oxidation.
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000818:Animals; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000032:analysis*; D002994:Clofibrate / Q000494:pharmacology*; D003600:Cytosol / Q000032:analysis*; D000071438:Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 7; D050556:Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins; D005227:Fatty Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D007668:Kidney / Q000032:analysis; D008027:Light; D008099:Liver / Q000032:analysis; D008297:Male; D009206:Myocardium / Q000032:analysis; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D019301:Oleic Acid; D009829:Oleic Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D010084:Oxidation-Reduction; D019308:Palmitic Acid; D010169:Palmitic Acids / Q000378:metabolism; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012737:Sex Factors; D013217:Starvation / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; C490174:Fabp7 protein, rat; D000071438:Fatty Acid-Binding Protein 7; D050556:Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins; D005227:Fatty Acids; D009363:Neoplasm Proteins; D009419:Nerve Tissue Proteins; D009829:Oleic Acids; D010169:Palmitic Acids; D019301:Oleic Acid; D019308:Palmitic Acid; D002994:Clofibrate