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Lipid Metabolism Flashcards

1
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How much of dietary fats do TAGs constitute?

A

90%, being manor form of metabolic energy storage.

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What do TAGs consist of?

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Glycerol backbone and a trimester of fatty acids.

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Why does lipid digestion take place at the water-lipid interface?

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Because TAGs are water insoluble yet their enzymes are water soluble.

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What is rate of lipid digestion dependent on?

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Surface area of the water-lipid interface.

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What increases rate of lipid digestion?

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Churning peristaltic movements of the intestine, and emulsifying action of bile acids.

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Bile Acids

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Amphiohatic detergent like molecules that solubulise fat globules.

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Where do Bile Acids come from?

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Synth in the liver from cholesterol, secreted as glycine or taurine conjugates into the gall bladder for storage.

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Where on TAGs does hydrolysis occur?

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1 and 3 alpha carbon by lipases.

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9
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Where on TAGS does lipase hydrolysis take place?

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1 and 3 alpha carbon

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10
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What does lipase TAG hydrolysis form?

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1,2 diacylglycerols and 2-acylglycerols.

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Interfacial Activation

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The increase of lipase activity at lipid-water interface.

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What is Lipase dependent on for binding to the LW interface?

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Mixed micelles of phosphatidylcholine and bile acids and pancreatic colipase.

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What is the process if interfacial Activation?

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The lipase active site within its NTD contains a catalytic domain: this is covered by a 25 residue helical lid in the absence of micelles, of which remove this lid through CC, revealing a expansion hole, generating a hydrophobic surface at the active site.

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14
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What does colipase do proceeding interfacial activation?

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Colipase binds CTD of lipase, in a way the hydrophobic tips of its three loops extend from the complex, creating a continuous hydrophobic plateau, assisting in binding complex to lipid surfaces.

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Where does lipid absorption take place?

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Cells lining the small intestine of the fatty acid and glycerol products.

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When does lipid digestion take place?

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Proceeding intestinal metabolism.

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How do Bile Acids play roles in lipid digestion?

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Permit transport of non polar lipid degraded products across the intestinal wall.

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18
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What do FA form upon absorption?

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Complexes with Intestinal Fatty Acid Binding Protein in the cytoplasm.

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19
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Why does FA need to bind IFABP?

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It increases FA solubility.

20
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Intestinal Fatty Acid Binding Protein

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This coordinates lipid transport and metabolism.

21
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What is the structure of IFABP?

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10 antiparralel beta pleated sheets, between of which the fatty Cids occupy parallel to the strands.

22
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What happens to FA after Binding IFABP?

A

Transport to other tissues for metabolism or storage in the form of lipoproteins.

23
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Lipoproteins

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Globular, micelles like particles consisting of a non polar core of TAGS, surrounded by an amphiphilic coating of proteins, phospholipids and cholesterol.

24
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What upon absorption are FA packaged into?

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Lipoproteins called Chylomicrons

25
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What is the FA packaged CM pathway?

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Release into intestinal lymph, transported through lymph vessels, draining into veins, then circulating throughout body.

26
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Where are VLDLs, LDLs and IDLs synthesised?

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Within the liver

27
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Function of Lipopeoteins?

A

Transport endogenous TAGS and cholesterol to required tissues.

28
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Structure of Apolipoprtoein B-100

A

A large 4536 residue monomer with high hydrophobcity, found once on LDL, covering half the particle surface.

29
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What are characteristics of ALPs?

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Water soluble, associate weakly with LP, high helical contact.

30
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Why does ALP helical content increase when Binding to LP?

A

Contact with hydrophobic surfaces favours helical formation, satisfying hydrogen bonding potential of proteins polar backbone group.

31
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Function of VLDL

A

Transport endogenous TAGS and cholesterol.

32
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Where are VLDLs degraded?

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In adipose/muscle tissues by lipoprotein lipases.

33
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What happens when VLDL are degraded?

A

Internal FA release where they’re absorbed ht cells and oxidized for energy, or used to resynthesie TAGS.

34
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What happens to TAG glycerol backbone after VLDL degradation?

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Transport to liver/kidneys converted to the glycolytic pathway.

35
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What happens to the VLDL remenenats after degradation?

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Appear in circulation as IDL half of which are taken up by the liver, then LDL

36
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What do VLDL derived LDLs do proceeding?

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Taken up by receptor mediated endocyotsis in the liver.

37
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How are LDLS sequestered?

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They bind LDL receptors, which cluster into clathrin coated pits, which invalidate to form clathrin coated vesicles.

38
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What is the pathway of LDL sequestered clathrin coated vesicles?

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Divest their clathrin coating, fusing with endosomes which harbour low pH, dissolving LDL from their receptors.

39
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Upon CCV fusion with endosomes, what happens?

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LDL receptors are recycled and endosomes fuse with lysosomes.

40
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What happens to LDL in lysosomes?

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Apob-100 is degraded into its AA and cholesterol esters hysrolyse into cholesterol and FA.

41
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What do HDL function to do?

A

Remove cholesterol from tissues.

42
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Where does HDL assembly take place?

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In plasma from components obtained through LP degradation.

43
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How does HDL acquire cholesterol?

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Extraction from cell surface membranes.

44
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What happens to cholesterol after HDL absorbs them?

A

Convert them into cholesteryl esters by lecithin cholesterol acyltransferase.

45
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How is HDL absorbed?

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Binding scavenger receptor class B type 1 on the liver, which transports lipids into the cell, where HDL reenters circulation.

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