title: Glycolipid transfer protein from bovine brain.
abstract: Glycolipid transfer protein from bovine brain has been purified partially by ammonium sulfate precipitation, CM-52 ion-exchange, and Sephadex G-75 column chromatography. Both pyrene-labeled and tritium-labeled glucocerebrosides have been used to study the kinetics of protein-mediated transfer between donor and acceptor vesicles. Protein accelerates glucocerebroside transfer but does not accelerate phospholipid transfer. In colyophilized small sonicated vesicles (10% glucocerebroside, 90% 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine) about two-thirds of the glycolipid is transferred in 2 h and the remaining one-third does not transfer (up to 5 h). For donor and acceptor vesicles made of dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine or 1-palmitoyl-2-oleoyl-phosphatidylcholine, glucocerebroside (10% in donors) is transferred rapidly only when both the donor and acceptor matrix phospholipids are in the liquid-crystalline state. If either donor or acceptor vesicles are in the gel state, transfer protein mediated transfer is much reduced. The amount of transfer protein bound specifically to glucocerebroside-containing vesicles is nearly equal above and below the matrix phospholipid phase transition temperature. Bound protein transfers glucocerebroside upon addition of acceptor vesicles.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001921:Brain / Q000378:metabolism*; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000378:metabolism*; D002417:Cattle; D005963:Glucosylceramides; D006017:Glycolipids / Q000378:metabolism*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007700:Kinetics; D008081:Liposomes
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D005963:Glucosylceramides; D006017:Glycolipids; D008081:Liposomes; C030363:lipid transfer protein