title: The lipoprotein lipase of white adipose tissue. Studies on the intracellular distribution of the adipocyte-associated enzyme.
abstract: The separation of rat epididymal adipocytes into plasma-membrane, mitochondrial, microsomal and cytosol fractions is described. The fractions, which were characterized by marker-enzyme analysis and electron-micrographic observation, from the cells of fed and 24 h-starved animals were used to prepare acetone/diethyl ether-dried powders for the measurement of lipoprotein lipase activities. The highest specific activities and proportion of recovered lipoprotein lipase activity were found in the plasma-membrane and microsomal fractions. The two fractions from the cells of fed rats showed similar activities and enrichments of the enzyme, these activities being higher than the plasma-membrane and lower than the microsomal activities recovered from the cells of starved animals. Chicken and guinea-pig anti-(rat lipoprotein lipase) sera were prepared, and an indirect labelled-second-antibody cellular immunoassay, using 125I-labelled rabbit anti-(chicken IgG) or 125I-labelled sheep anti-(guinea-pig IgG) antibodies respectively, for the detection of cell-surface enzyme was devised and optimized. The amount of immunodetectable cell-surface lipoprotein lipase was higher for cells isolated from fed animals than for cells from 24 h-starved animals, when either anti-(lipoprotein lipase) serum was used in the assay. The amount of immunodetectable cell-surface lipoprotein lipase fell further when starvation was extended to 48 h. The lipoprotein lipase of plasma-membrane vesicles was shown to be a patent activity and to be immunodetectable in a modification of the cellular immunoassay. Although the functional significance of the adipocyte surface lipoprotein lipase is not known, the possibility of it forming a pool of enzyme en route to the capillary endothelium is advanced.
mesh_terms: D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000166:cytology / Q000201:enzymology*; D000818:Animals; D007118:Immunoassay; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008071:Lipoprotein Lipase / Q000276:immunology / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D013217:Starvation / Q000201:enzymology; D013347:Subcellular Fractions / Q000201:enzymology
chemical_list: D008071:Lipoprotein Lipase